Views : 421,072
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Premiered Sep 13, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.938 (151/9,563 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-19T07:56:48.297429Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
My fave line. "Because my kid will maybe have them blue eyes / And he won't understand the pain thatt's in mine / and late at night I'll wonder maybe that's why / because I never want to hear the same cry / from a kid that doesn't fit in / to the world that he live in"
It's refreshing to hear such honesty from a mixed-race Black man about interracial dating / family making and the subconscious choices that can inform having a white partner. While we know there's a variety of reasons for this, actually saying out loud is important.
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This brought me to tears. Grew up mixed-race, white father ran away age 4. Grew up being a foreigner in my mother's home, a foreigner in my father's home. Grew up being called mixed blood, mixed race, half caste, hybrid, sometimes people being "nice" about it sometimes hateful, either way I hated it, people treating my mother like she was a hired maid looking after my sister and I and I'd be just a kid telling them no that's my mother.
Border guards telling me I'm not my sister's brother because she's got my father's green eyes and blond hair. The nights of my mother screaming about the "biological neglect" calling my father nothing more than the "sperm donor who ran." Then I finally met the man when I was 16, managed to build something of a family up. Never judged my parents for the things they did or what they said, I promised I wouldn't judge them until I was as old as they were when they made their life choices. "You can't hate the roots of the tree, how can I hate my father without hating me."
Christmases come up and everyone's there, everyone's there and it's always at the back of my throat, "who am I?" And it's something that nobody in my family knows, because no one else is mixed race. I met some good people in life who've had to deal with this, people told you're "too much x to be y," every place they've called home too. That's why I can smile today, but I take one listen to this song and all the anger I never got to show to anyone - because there was never any point in being angry at anyone about this, makes me want to scream hallelujah!
I hope you all have good days
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I never had role models like you growing up, LC.
I had to navigate belonging to both worlds, yet fitting into neither all by myself.
It is the human condition to struggle, but no one but those like us understands truly what that is like.
I'm a grown man now...
With a beautiful woman by my side.
My children will likely have to face the similar struggles, but I am happy as hell that I can share your art with them to help them through it.
Bless you, LC - we are happier for you being here.
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@MartinDef_
1 year ago
"You can't hate the roots of the tree. How can I hate my father, without hating me." 🌳
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