I Never Believed in a Mixed Identity

I never believed in a mixed identity. My father always kind of had an ambivence about race, but he believes that races made real. He did send me and my brother out into the world as black men. We were proud of all the cultural traditions. I mean, this people that was a nearly destroyed in this country, but persevered and even created some of the greatest aspects of american culture. It's pointless to call people mixed, because that also presumes that there are these stand alone, a pure identities that some people have. And i think it's actually disastrous, which is something we don't open ourselves up to often enough.