Curious about peoples thoughts. I was in a meeting for an org I'm a part of and we were thinking of names for our mixed-race collective. I typically identify as Mixed and there seemed to be a lot of resistance and negative feelings about that and it was decided that we should title it Multiracial and Multi-Ancestry collective. I felt pretty defensive and then ultimately became frustrated because I didn't voice my own thoughts and feelings about why I really loved Mixed and why I didn't necessarily like Multiracial in comparison, so I'm curious what people associate with and if you're willing to share, why you don't like something, or why something speaks to you!

I felt strongly against multiracial because to be mixed doesn’t necessarily encompass two races. What about Brown folks? What about folks who are of two or more ethnicities but not necessarily races? In fact I really only felt like race consisted of Black and White and logistically speaking, Brown ha! So I really don’t even understand.

I felt strongly aligned with Mixed because I felt like it encompasses more of me. My dad is not only Black, he’s creole, my mom is white, and I also have multiple ethnicities in my lineage, I also am multicultural, so I felt like mixed really encompasses my feelings but two other people who seemed like the deciding factor because I didn’t speak up, they were resistant to mixed because they felt it was degrading as if mixed with something , added in whiteness or something along those lines, at least that’s how their resistance was stated and perceived. So curious y’all thoughts, especially since I will soon be making a support group for my fellowship project.

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