Robbie Jones

Robbie Jones Instagram – “My experience as a mixed/black girl who passes for white.” This is an open letter my wife wrote a few days ago. 🙏🏾❤ “From as early as I can remember I’ve always been acutely aware of the fact that I don’t look black, however it would be many years before I would realize how much easier my life would automatically be due to my white privilege. I was always proud of my background and wanted everyone to know. I took every opportunity I could to let people know who I was if the subject, or something even remotely close to it, came up. If I’m honest with myself, I was probably overcompensating for the fact that who I felt I was on the inside didn’t quite match up with how I looked on the outside. So although I didn’t necessarily look black, I made sure anyone who knew me knew my background.
The first time I was called a nigger to my face I was in the 4th grade. I was walking home from school when a boy from my class came out of his house and started throwing rocks at me and yelling “Hey Nigger!” I approached and confronted him and he punched me in the face and wrestled me to the ground. I kneed him in the crotch and pushed him off of me and that was the end of that.
When I was about 8 I took a road trip to
Vancouver with my dad and sister. My parents were separated and we would spend half the summer with my dad. When we got to the immigration officer at the Canadian border, things went south. My dad had our birth certificates with his and my mom’s name and signature on them as well as a signed letter from my mom giving her permission for him to take us across the border. The border agent took one look at my black dad with his two white looking daughters and assumed the worst. They proceeded to separate my sister and I from our dad, putting us in separate rooms and questioning us. I don’t remember how long… (Continued in my next post) | Posted on 19/Jun/2020 10:30:42