katielittlejohn:

You can’t please everyone, especially when it comes to topics like race.

I thought this very well done. I think the conversations and outcomes were realistic to who we know Kat to be, the kind of parents we understood her to have and how she was raised.

Her not wanting to deny either parent and feeling as though she does that by identifying with one part of her makes sense, if you try to see it from her perspective.

Her realizing that socially and politically, it’s more important that she embraces being black was the desired outcome and that’s what we got.

But a smaller takeaway was her realizing this thing with labels was more something her parents believed in and not something she came to on her own. I think in your early-mid 20s you do kind of start having these epiphanies about how much of what you think you are or believe aren’t genuinely you but shaped by your parents and you have to start questioning that.