"'Jem,' I asked,' what's a mixed child?'
Half-white, half-colored. You've seen em, Scout. You know that red-kinky-headed one that delivers for the drugstore. He's half-white. They're real sad.'
Sad, how come?'
They don't belong anywhere. Colored folks won't have em because they're half-white; white folks won't have em cause they're colored, so they're just in-betweens, don't belong anywhere." (To Kill a Mockingbird, page 161)
Everyone has heard the quote," All men are created equal." That has not stopped the discrimination against any group of people right up to this very moment. The group of people that is treated most unequally is made up of biracial children and teens. Whether the treatment is from parents, peers, and other adults such as teachers, this can have detrimental effects on a person's psyche.
When you are a kid, whether you're Caucasian, Asian, Mestizo or Afroindipean, your number one hero is your mother or father. As hard as it is to comprehend,......
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