Perhaps they function in a saner environment, the specter of slavery not hanging over their heads. Then again, perhaps not. They have a mixed identity because they really have no other. They own their mixed identity because it is true . They claim their mixed identity because they are tired of a world that is getting away with patently stupid judgments about people based on facts not in evidence.
Mixed people live with their own reality.
The truth is that the civil rights movement is unnerved by its own successes. The mixed identity exists because everyone of us is human and can be no more or no less than what we are. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited without the express written consent of Interracial Voice.