I have a friend who once said "my kids aren't half-anything, they're 100% Filipino & 100% American Jewish. Identity isn't math."

Exactly!

Damn I love that. Mixed race may mean your dna comes part from one race and part from another... but she's right, that doesn't mean that they aren't BOTH, nor that they're 'not enough of one' or 'too much of the other'. Beautiful sentiment.

It is quantum physics: superposition and entanglement

100%. Blood quantum is colonialist bulkshit.

That human failing : the desire to classify everything before engaging brain for the next step.

My best friend is “mostly black” on her father’s side & “mostly white” on her mom’s and whenever anybody asks “what are you exactly” she says “Juanita”.

This uh... This was a remarkably healing thing for me to hear. How unexpected and how lovely.

I wonder at times at the 1-0 calculation that riddles racism and sexism. One or the other--because when you are working so hard to identify the evil 'other' you need that clear boundary and definition.

Sounds familiar, I went to the bar mitzvah for a friend’s son where lumpia was on the menu!

Identity isn’t math and culture isn’t genetic!