Random: Here's...

...Dude's NUGGET FOR TODAY.

MIXED BREEDS!

Our daily nuggets have always tried to maintain that there is a pressing need for each one of us to know for sure who we truly are. We draw a lesson today from a tight circle of friends who only recently, after over two decades of friendship, learnt that an inner member of the clique had been struggling with an awkward and somewhat unexpected difficulty over the years. A somewhat unusual illustration that we’ll share and hopefully pick a positive lesson.

I might be alone on this one, but we like to think that there’s something “exotic” about people born to parents of different racial origins. We sometimes call them “biracial”, “mixed race” or the more common and yet highly offensive “half-caste” or “mullato”. We like to think how pretty they look, how it is, that they’ve gotten the best of both worlds. They seem more attractive, their skins are neither as light nor as dark as the ordinary. Their hairs are not as straight or as curly. Well, our subject group of friends learnt from the biracial member of their clique how he had struggled with the silent trauma of not truly belonging here nor there. Born to a father of African descent and a Caucasian mother, he’s always faced the complex of not being black enough to truly belong to the “hood”, or white enough to qualify for the erroneously perceived “superiority”. He always sought to be truly accepted or at the least described by something other than the color of his skin. Putting up a bold (and perhaps pretty) face of confidence and denying the inner battles, had left him beaten and bruised over the years.

A somewhat unconventional illustration as we said from the start, but we’ll choose our lessons carefully. There’s nothing wrong with being biracial, and our lesson surely isn’t on racism. There is however, a lot wrong when we cannot really find our bearing. There’s everything wrong when we cannot lay claim to our true position. There’s a lot wrong when all that we are, is what society says that we are. Today, we must set out to work on who we are, and what we want we want to be defined as. The last thing that should define is should be our skins, or appearance! Lasting legacies would be a good place to start!

Regards,
Dude 'O'

Riiiight!!!! So the advice for Today is NEVER be defined by our appearances? Hmmm... Does that go for the unattractive people out there too? They know WHO THEY ARE --cough LeAnn cough--