Badass Black Girl/ When I was Mexican: A Black Girl Explores Her Ancestry
January 26

Badass Black Girl/ When I was Mexican: A Black Girl Explores Her Ancestry

Mother has been working on our family tree. On my father’s side: African pirates—or so I’ve decided, since Papa never talks about his ancestry. His skin, black as the night sky, is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. It's 2008, before genetic services become ultra-popular in the United States, before I reveled in reading details about my ancestry composition (54.9% Sub-Saharan African, 42.2% European, 2.9% unassigned).

 

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