Jul 15
i think intrafamilial racism is something that needs to be talked about more as an experience many mixed people have
my experience is different as someone mixed white, but growing up, my biggest oppressor was my white father. he insisted to me, his mixed thai child, that all thais were horrible people and that his whiteness in me was a gift. most days, he considered me white, but when it was useful or funny to him, i was yellow and a mutt. this left me with a deeply unstable relationship to my race as being asian was associated with traits that my father portrayed as unshakably wrong while whiteness was shown to be morally good
