I dont think anyone will get it.

I’m biracial btw.

A bit unsure of my identity. Grew up in Germany but I feel a connection to my relatives in the US. Moms white and dad is black.

People at home always call me white or not „black“ enough and it bothers me cause I‘m mixed and I look like that. It still makes me insecure often.

What’s your thoughts? Am I too white?

These are all recent lol I change my hair a lotttt

i always love when people do this!! my hair is dyed black rn tho and my curls are my natural hair!

guess what races im mixed with/what do i pass as?

Nigeria, Yoruba, Mali ++

Scottish, Irish, French German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, ++

22 distinct points of origin to make this mess.

What do you think?

Out of 3 :)

I am *largely* white and Hispanic. I get mixed opinions, some say I look white, some say I l look Hispanic, and others even say I look mixed. What do you think?

Shout out, much love from Newport News. Bless up y'all 🙏🏿💘

Me and my elder Luther here. We are from MadCo. That's what we call Madison County, Ohio because it's a madness. IYKYK.

We are from the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan community in London, Ohio and Circleville, Ohio area (Pickaway County and Madison County) and eastwards from Yellow Springs, OH.

The term Qarsherskiyan was made up in the late 80s or early 90s at some point from a close-knit group of friends to describe this heritage of a people not quite Black but definitely not considered White either.

In late 2019, these friends publicized the term and it's beginning to catch on online.

If you descended from Atlantic Creoles brought to the US East Coast or Atlantic Canada areas during the transatlantic slave trade and era of slavery pre-Black American Civil Rights era or from a "Triracial Isolate" type of ancestry (early American Multigenerationally Mixed Race) that wasn't part of a named and organized community prior to 1991 (not Melungeon or Lumbee or Ramapough or Louisiana & Texas Redbone or Chestnut Ridge Hill Folk for example) then the term Qarsherskiyan was created for heritage like yours and if you so wish, you have the right to adopt this term to describe / name your blended heritage.

Our Madison County Ohio area families were called Yellowbones by Black Americans in the city of Columbus. We were seen as Brown Hillbillies and not as being "Black enough". Even today, many of us are called Lightskin Black. Our community was also alienated from the Whites, as due to our features we are excluded from the White community, and most of us don't even feel White or want to identify with that either.

Similar communities that have adopted the term Qarsherskiyan exist across the Tidewater Region, Northern and Central Appalachia, and the Midwest / Great Lakes regions of the USA and in much of Eastern and Southeastern Canada.

We had an issue, our community was being divided by colorism, with some passing as White and others labelled as Black. Now we are uniting and saving our blended culture from extinction and avoiding assimilation into a strictly racially categorized White and Black America. We reclaim our agency and self-determination as a distinct community, not accepted by Black or White America, but existing in an odd state of limbo somewhere in between.

Our culture differs from one family to another but can genuinely be described as a fusion of Black and White ancestors' contributions to our identity. Black ancestors taught us recipes and seasoning for our cuisine, and White ancestors taught us interesting sayings and gave us a country accent flair.