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By Bradley Winkler

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"I remember thinking, am I not black enough?" - Zazie Beetz

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"I am either too black or not black enough; yet no matter what, I am in the wrong." -Aries Brown

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“Sometimes it gets down to ‘You’re not black enough for them. You’re not R&B enough. You’re very pop. The white audience has taken you away from them." - Whitney Houston

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Stories of black people and the challenges to their identity and heritage can be found throughout YouTube, news outlets, websites, blogs, etc.

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There are multiple variations of this issue. Mixed-race people find themselves in an awkward middle ground where they are not white enough for white projects but not black enough for black projects. It's like there are two different worlds and neither fully sees them as their own.

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While some black people struggle between conforming to white culture and standing by their own. White culture can provide better opportunities but comes at the cost of potentially being unfaithful to yourself.

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America is a white man's world. Abolished/overturned laws such as Jim Crow laws or the separate but equal rulings have punished black people for existing. Making it clear that to succeed you need to conform and get along with the guys in charge.

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"One of the main groups that humans can be divided into according to their physical differences, for example, the color of their skin; the fact of belonging to one of these groups."

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It's interesting because it feels like a paradox. Mixed-race people can be made to feel like they do not belong to a race...because of their race.

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Beyond that, the struggles of black people have been such a prominent issue in American history. And now we're seeing a new issue that, ironically adds a lot of grey to this black and white issue.

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Websites.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/07/not-black-enough-the-identity-crisis-that-haunted-whitney-houston
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47866741
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/zazie-beetz-i-remember-thinking-am-i-not-black-enough-vhfhnrdnk

Images.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/entertainment/whitney-houston-movie/index.html
https://www.voicesofyouth.org/blog/different-shades-us
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/26/the-mixed-race-experience-there-are-times-i-feel-like-the-odd-one-out-
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/blacks-white-racism-united-states-polls/index.html
https://www.annualreviews.org/shot-of-science/story/racism-roots-in-law