Adrian

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"Have I faced police brutality? Luckily not.

Have I been the victim of overt discrimination, on an institutional level? Hard to say.

What I get more than anything is my identity as a black person being denied because I’m mixed. I get a whole lot of people who feel comfortable saying very racist things around me, because I’m “not REALLY black”. Those same people would then ask me if they could have an “n-word pass”. I’m basically black when people find it convenient for me to be, and I’m not when it isn’t convenient. Constantly being told I’m white washed for liking some metal songs, liking pro wrestling, anything that isn’t stereotypically black. It’s a constant denial of my identity on a person to person basis.