Today in class we were talking about choosing to identify with one race or another when you are bi-racial, or if you can just not choose. Being that I am not bi-racial, I have never had to deal with identifying myself with one race or another, however I have seen many people I know deal with this issue. I personally think that regardless of whether or not a bi-racial person chooses to identify with a particular race, society will do it for them. I have seen many bi-racial people choose to not identify with one race in particular, yet other people see what they want and identify them according to what they choose to see. A perfect example of this is a bi-racial friend of mine from high school, in high school seeing that we had a large amount of bi-racial students, he was seen as bi-racial and not just black or just white. This friend of mine ended up also going to Fredonia with me and I have noticed how, now being here, he is viewed as the "black guy". I think because Fredonia is so predominantly white, that regardless of how my friend identifies himself, society here has identified him as black because he stands out more than others. This just goes to show that no matter how you choose to identify yourself, society is always going to make their own identifications for you.
-Ryan Fleming blog post#23
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