LOVE IMAGINED: Declaration of Independence Frederick Douglass said, “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” And he asked them, “Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?” It wasn’t until 2009 the senate passed a resolution apologizing for …
I was born in 1948. Even before the day I was born my life had been affected by what was and wasn’t going on in America regarding civil rights. I was well into my thirties before I, a Chinese Black girl who once-upon-a-time passed for white, was acutely aware of …
1967 one year after I graduated from high school. I was lookin’ for love in a frenzy. I think it was this desire to be loved that began my aha moments of knowing I was a Chinese Black Woman passing for White, and even though there were boys who liked …
LOVE IMAGINED: memoir of a Chinese Black Girl Passing for White in South Scandinavian Minneapolis When we talk about the witness in our verse, we talk about you. A pure heart and a noble demeanor cannot compete with your radiant face. They will ask you what you have produced. Say …
