Black or Boriqua?

Have you ever tried finding out your origins or past? If you are black, it is easy. If you are white it is also easy. But what if you are mixed? What if just like Obama, you are half white and half black? Or in the case of Roberto Santiago half black and half Puerto Rican? I am pretty sure that you will be confused on where to begin, which side of the family you should start with. You can only imagine what people like these gentlemen felt. Going day to day having doubts about your identity, being teased, confused on what to be or what not to be. At the end of the day it all depends on how you feel about yourself. What do you want to be?  That is why God gave us the ability to be able to choose and make decisions on our own. "My life has been shaped by my black and Latino heritages, and despite other people's confusion, I don't feel I have to choose one or the other. To do so would be to deny a part of myself." (Santiago 183). Roberto Santiago is making it clear that he doesn't mind being biracial because both races helped mold his life and make him the person he is. We don't know whether or not if Obama was just white or just black he would have come as far as he did. We do not know if Roberto Santiago would have been able to accomplish all what he accomplished in his life if he wasn't biracial. To some being biracial could be a problem, but to others they can use it to their advantage to do and become whatever they want.

                                                                    Works Cited
 "Black and Latino" by Roberto Santiago, from Revelations