Well done and well said.

As a person of some mixed color, it’s been a strange journey over the years.

Having grown up as a mixed person in the NYC region, I’ve ABSOLUTELY fared better when *PERCEIVED* as part of the White Majority. What they used to call in the Black Community as “passing”, along with the connotation of falsely partaking of privilege you were not entitled to.

When you are perceived as not being a member of whatever the local “tribe” is, be they white folk, engineers, men, straight people — if you’re the different one, you are placed under serious scrutiny and not given the benefit of slack — or privilege–extended to “members of the tribe.”