As a USA immigrant of Persian Jewish genetics with both Hispanic and Ashkenazic blood, my parents worked. THey sponsored immigrant refugees from Jamaica in the 60s, emplyoying, housing and then funding their families to come here. The affection in my life came from Rosa and Lena.
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Not my parents. Yet, despite "appearing" white, I have never once in my life identified that way. Rather, I feel outside of what racial and ethnic groups are here. Judaism has little room for an anti-zionist, non-religious, irreverent independent minded girl much less woman.
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I also hate the codification of humans and refuse to participate in any questions regarding race, gender and ethnic identifiers. When you're a long-term patient, those forms are shoved in your face all the time. I'm dug in and battled more than once as I "must be something."
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So help me folks. I want to support multiethnic, multicultural, multigender diversity and growth as it is to me how we learn to solve problems in a variety of ways, hear stories of other struggles and triumphs, when we are open, we learn. How do I distinguish that from this
Jan 8, 2021 · 3:28 AM UTC
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insistence that my appearance, while "ethnic" perhaps, is not a racial distinction? To me, white is Anglo Saxon Christians. I am none of those things. Help me with this, please. All thoughts welcome. Thank you and democracy and getting away from the white man's agenda.
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My family came here during progroms. My father was born here in 1928, mother in 1933. I was four years old when a woman patted me on my head and looked at my Mom and asked "Oh, so when do her horns come in?" Yes, there are Jewish physiological traits. It's genetics after all.
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