On the Verge of Dating White Girls

2 My "Mixed" people: Are you "Mixed?" or "Black?" or "White?" or Both?

All of a sudden I'm questioning "mixed" folks. Meaning: What are y'all?... For the most part I always considered anyone mixed with Black as "Black." But after watching this video and just thinking about the times when I've been confronted with the actual identity of some mixed folk, the question clearly stands with the reality of YOU ARE MIXED. So just what are you?

Now don't get me wrong, you don't have to choose. And then again, you can choose if you want to... But it would be remiss to think that just because you're "mixed" (with let's say Black and White) you are one and not the other. The truth is your are both, right?

Yet I know some Mixed folk who have clearly chosen to be Black vs. the Whiteness of one of their parents. And that's cool. I guess... After all, It's not my dilemma.

The historical rules of this society have labeled a person to be "Black" if you have one drop of Black blood in you. But I now see that's just a societal term or thought. It really doesn't embody the truth of what a mixed person is. It only deems how society is "supposed" to think about you.

However some of you have clearly decided to be just "Black." And some resist being put in a box of just "Black."

Personally I've never associated "Black" with being a real lael of race. I'm saying you got Persians in Persia, you got Indians in India, you got Chinese in China etc.... But where is the country Black? Or just as valid, where is the country of White?...

Sure I get the convenience of those labels, but I think our society has become lazy when it comes to acknowledging each other. Then again, are we moving towards a colorless society, or at least a society where color doesn't really matter?

I dunno.... But I do that it is important to some people. So it'll always be an issue. So to at least help me and the rest of the world figure it, please take the poll below.

And is it politically correct to capitalize the word "Mixed?" I I always capitalize Black, White and so on... And I know it's like a matter of choice. I guess I'm kinda wondering if "Mixed" is the new race.

The Ressurection: I'm back y'all

Yup. Back from the dead. And i don't have AIDS, nor a criminal record, so I must be doing ah'ight.

Man... You jus don't know how many times I've sat at this keyboard and considered returning to "THE VERGE." Perhaps I was lying to myself, affirming that OTV was just a place of my past, but no... It's been all too close--arms reach in fact. And as much as I didn't want to return to this ambiguous place of frustration and coldness.... I'm back bitches.

And yeah I gotta speak the truth as only the Honorable DeePiuM sees it:

Steve McNair

A brotha simply and tragically beyond the brink.  Now don't get me wrong he most certainly didn't deseve to die the way he did at the hands of a suicide/homicidal crazed TGIF waitress working bee eye itch... But he created his situation. RIP my brotha...

As a result I will do my best to walk the line On The Verge and stay on the path of the sane and living. Then again you never know what someone else has instore for you. It could be death, a wonderful life, or a simple sperm jack. Yes a sperm jack. I caint get into it right now, but I usually pill the real in due time so stay tuned on that note.

And then my man Michael Jackson. Man... That was a shoocker. And of course I got lots to say on my boy about that one. But I prefer to focus on what he left us, rather than the way he left us.

Nonetheless, I think it kinda bothers me that MJ left the majority of his financial legacy to 3 engineered white kids that obviouly weren't of his DNA.  I mean, am I trippin? Is that racist of me? The way I see it, there are a lot of little black kids that I coulda easily plugged into that tragic/happy ending. I don't get that one Mike...

But I do know this: Mike was a loving and generous person. The amount of charity he demonstrated and the messages of love he illustrated in his music are lessons I seem to still be trying to swallow....

Moreover, I will miss knowing that Mike is among the land of the living. Nonetheless, I'm sure he's in a much better place.  This I know. And This is what consoles me on THE VERGE.

I ain't even got to Barack yet. But trust me I will...