My name is Sarah Dubois, and this is My Voice
If I had a voice, i would tell you
how I care deeply about my family, and I wouldn't want anything to happen to them.
I worry deeply sometimes about Jazmine though.
She sometimes feel like she doesn't belong,
like she's not accepted,
because her daddy's black and her mommy's white.
I feel so helpless to her, because I'm going through the same sence of not belonging.
My parents are what most people would call racist.
They didn't want me to get involved with Asians,
Mexicans,
Indian decendents,
and definately not Black people.
So imagine their shock when I told them that I was dating Tom,
or their anger when I revealed that we were getting married.
They faced me with an ultimatum:
Either call off the wedding and stop seeing Tom or be disowned from my family.
But my love for Tom proved strong, and I chose him. My parents were furious.
The last time I saw them and actually spoke to them was when Jazmine was born.
So when I see Jazmine in one of her I-just-belong fits, I kinda don't know what to do to help her, because I kinda feel the same way.
But at least she has two parents who love her very much,
and not ones that split on her because she turned out to be different.