More Than Meets the Eye
People contain multitudes. We all know better than to judge someone by the way they look. Sadly, it still happens. This white storyteller and her Indo-Trinidadian husband have experienced multiple instances of racism and confusion over their appearance as a couple. Why does everyone feel the need to label others immediately? We’ll never know.
Our storyteller explains that they’ve never experienced racism within their own families, but they’ve gotten unsolicited opinions from strangers. One time, some guy decided to harass her for being with a brown man; as if it was any of his business! The couple lives in Texas, so they get some weird looks when the two of them do things that break through people’s cultural assumptions.