"How's it been growing up white?" "There must be a culture clash in your household?" "Zebra." "You have to be adopted." Although what people said to me about my parents and my biracial identity hurt, I just let it roll off my shoulders. As a society, we have moved past prejudice against interracial couples, but people have not come to terms with the fact that children are produced from these marriages. I never thought the two identities inside of me...

I wish that I'd had stayed in my own lane and not have...