fe around whites. To me it seems like most blacks tend to have more of an understanding of where I am coming from. Whites see me as black and want me to be whiter like them, while blacks see me more as white. But the difference is that blacks aren’t trying to make me to be black. They just want to make sure that I don’t forget about that side of me.Steele expresses, “What becomes clear to me is that people like myself, my friend, and middle-class blacks generally are caught in a very specific double bind that keeps two equally powerful elements of our identity at odds with each other” (Steele 212) But as long as you, yourself, are ok with your double bind, it shouldn’t matter what other people think. You can’t help what you were born into.I’ve learned a lot from being black and white. It has made me much stronger of a person. If I ever had a chance to choose between one or the other so that I wouldn’t be stuck in this double bind, I wouldn’t. I’m not just white. And I’m not just black. I am both. I am biracial. And the way I see it is that I have the best of both worlds....
