Someone Asked Why Do I Write Mixed Characters?

Because I’m mixed, first of all. Second, there aren’t as many mixed characters in writing where that mixed-race aspect of themselves is acknowledged except when it’s part of an issue book or contemporary fiction, neither of which I read much of. Third, because as a kid people told me I couldn’t do things because I was too white, too black, blah blah blah, and I couldn’t point to anyone who fit that description who’d really done anything so that I could say, “But they did.” I don’t want that to happen to other children.