when someone asks me realm from and I
say Kenya they look at me
they blink a couple of times and I like
oh that’s nice so with time I still
change my approach of answering this
common question and then replied by
saying guess where I’m from and honestly
I found so much pleasure listening to
what people had to say some of them said
I’m Egyptian Omani Somalis Sudanese
Indian a Marathi and even Trinidadian
but the truth is that I am mixed-race my
father descends from Pakistan in a small
town called pindy my mother comes from
the bukuvu and Kokua tribes in Kenya and
together they form the cute baby growing
up when hardly anyone looks like you you
tend to stand out with the most concrete
part of your identity is not having one
you tend to feel lost you tend to cry
this baggage of social pressure even
before the term social pressure is
instilled in your vocabulary I was I
growing up sorry guys I was I was dim as
an accident when growing up and this
whole idea of not being like everyone
else
pop job I was called the chitara this
was a derogatory term that defined as
multiracial people eyesight
whenever had this word it rung a bell in
my ears
a constant Tobin stating I wasn’t enough
I was simply an outline and even in my
country’s senses I was an insignificant
statistic but I was brought to evade the
reality of my identity filled with fear
my father here want my sister I to fall
into the same package as this Joe
Torre’s therefore our strollers a
Punjabi and whenever join a new school
and someone asked me the Cohen question
Oh what are you
I quickly jump again be like you Monza
Punjabi
but little did I know by by slowly
asserting this facade unto me the deeper
my insecurities suck and of course I
knew I was biracial my thick curly hair
my fat nose my fast great moustache my
hairy hands
It was as if I had both sides black and
brown it felt as though I was told this
Venn diagram but force myself to bounce
with one side despite would fully
succumb to that no and because of what
so I could fit in intrapreneurs born a
crime he states that racism exists
people are getting hurt and that’s this
because of happening to you that doesn’t
there phenomics pierced through my veins
and their judgmental stares bad into my
bones as an 11 year old walking into
weddings with grey congregations I could
fill eyes on me hitting me constantly I
would see my young maid spray on the
side and also spot me that stop exchange
a few glimpses back and forth
I thought continue playing and the
younger ones even more apparent that my
presence was all to them and it is clear
this concept of ordinance has really
been embedded to this young children and
thus growing with such a mentality makes
it so difficult for you to perceive
people who are unlike you to be the same
I think I always loved dance dancing has
been a hobby for a long time when I was
8 or 9 my son I loved Sean Paul I would
play temperature and get visiting that
weekend then we jump to it but then give
the time when I decided to perform for
the first time in my primary school
Mohammed school was owned by Indians
this meant that the maturity of the
student population of Indian descent I
was allowed to perform although I was
way to create a dance piece based off a
bollywood song and I did that’s Bernie
Kerik elegido
was a song from the movie does and as
you can see
the top left that was me filling the
music back in the day the baggage Jesus
the glasses does a thing back in 207 let
me tell you and I didn’t think it was an
issue abiding by this discriminative set
of laws that imposed on me in fact I
thought wow this would be a great
opportunity for me to fit into my Browns
and as they were now see me as their own
but though I look back now I questioned
the role of the administration what
happened to those students who were put
down just because the music genre didn’t
promote the school wanted and as a 10
year old early coming out to perform was
only a daunting and daring test let
alone being put down just because you’re
not promoting with the school once I
believe that that is absurd and it was
this fixed mind see that has been
permitted into our lives making
difficult for people those same students
who who went off stage and weren’t
allowed to might have never gone up
Street again and that that is a problem
it was instilled to me by my society
that mixed-race kids our form of rejects
and with this insecurity I needed
someone to act as a pillar in my life to
pull me out of this world
it was drowning in and that’s someone of
my parents they did not succumb to the
name of marry within their colleges in
fact despite getting distillation and
disgraced on both committees then love
proved to be stronger than that although
this constant pursuit to evade societal
norms did catch up to them with frequent
arguments occurring might I need to find
the sense of the huge accrue I yearned
for this just because I didn’t see it at
home it was even more clear when my mind
set up separating and this was a painful
moment for me this is what I realized
that wow the differences within these
two cultures quickly rose up I would
hear both sides shame each of my parents
and that was when I knew this is
problem at times it felt I wanted you to
pick sides but this one time I was in
school and my teacher walked kid and she
called me out she’s like oh you have to
go home and at that point at the age of
seven the best thing ever is to leave
school half-day right so this is the
image my friends thought I was gonna
have dashing out of class running away
pack my bag and I got over the classroom
I saw my sister over there wearing a
backpack we then go into a car in or
driven off the next thing is that we
appear in a police station
I’m completely perplexed I see my mom my
grandma in a field of relatives they
then asked us to write a report or
statement about my friends arguing my
sister’s curiosity quickly popped up and
they had him behind bars I didn’t know
how to react at that point and I say it
is with this attitude that inhibits
interrelation relationship to work even
the few that constantly surpass this
don’t constantly face pressure to keep
up and once they don’t work the common
saying of i-told-you-so quickly pops up
and the few of them who accidentally
indulge in this because of the fear of
getting judged and ostracized they flee
leaving the young one alone hopeless I
was in a car one time who headed
somewhere and those traffic obviously
and I look outside as ever looks outside
when you’re driving a car right and I
see this young man he has a big afro he
has nice eyes obviously a big nose fat
nose like my skin tone smell to mine he
was very good-looking obviously but then
I look again not is wearing a dirty
t-shirt dirty jeans
sandals his pushing discard he looks
tired betta by life
exhausted a few minutes later I found
that he’s a chitara his finds fled he’s
double to the US and his mother passed
on and a lot for me to occur to me that
wow I wouldn’t be here today and it
wouldn’t matter at all
God knows where be and like this idea to
the university we have right now it is
so heartwarming seeing the vast number
of relationships we have here
interracial relationships this means as
a as a generation we’re slowly suffer
since primitive notion and no accepting
of other people and passing on this
belief is what’s crucial in promoting by
racism oh who cares who wanna be with
may be unaware Colombian a Bosnian a
Korean and Namibian who cares this
stigma associated mixed-race individual
should end it is been a long time though
of struggle figuring about our identity
trying to place ourselves into one
circle of the Venn diagram but no it is
time to create our own circle to make
our own circle and turn to be
significant statistic to the world
because at the end of the day red blood
still form is to our veins Nelson
Mandela once said no one is born hating
another person another person of
different skin tone a different
background or different religion people
learn to hate and even they can be if
they can learn to hate then they can be
taught to love for love cause were
natural to the human heart then it’s
opposite thank you [Applause]
say Kenya they look at me
they blink a couple of times and I like
oh that’s nice so with time I still
change my approach of answering this
common question and then replied by
saying guess where I’m from and honestly
I found so much pleasure listening to
what people had to say some of them said
I’m Egyptian Omani Somalis Sudanese
Indian a Marathi and even Trinidadian
but the truth is that I am mixed-race my
father descends from Pakistan in a small
town called pindy my mother comes from
the bukuvu and Kokua tribes in Kenya and
together they form the cute baby growing
up when hardly anyone looks like you you
tend to stand out with the most concrete
part of your identity is not having one
you tend to feel lost you tend to cry
this baggage of social pressure even
before the term social pressure is
instilled in your vocabulary I was I
growing up sorry guys I was I was dim as
an accident when growing up and this
whole idea of not being like everyone
else
pop job I was called the chitara this
was a derogatory term that defined as
multiracial people eyesight
whenever had this word it rung a bell in
my ears
a constant Tobin stating I wasn’t enough
I was simply an outline and even in my
country’s senses I was an insignificant
statistic but I was brought to evade the
reality of my identity filled with fear
my father here want my sister I to fall
into the same package as this Joe
Torre’s therefore our strollers a
Punjabi and whenever join a new school
and someone asked me the Cohen question
Oh what are you
I quickly jump again be like you Monza
Punjabi
but little did I know by by slowly
asserting this facade unto me the deeper
my insecurities suck and of course I
knew I was biracial my thick curly hair
my fat nose my fast great moustache my
hairy hands
It was as if I had both sides black and
brown it felt as though I was told this
Venn diagram but force myself to bounce
with one side despite would fully
succumb to that no and because of what
so I could fit in intrapreneurs born a
crime he states that racism exists
people are getting hurt and that’s this
because of happening to you that doesn’t
there phenomics pierced through my veins
and their judgmental stares bad into my
bones as an 11 year old walking into
weddings with grey congregations I could
fill eyes on me hitting me constantly I
would see my young maid spray on the
side and also spot me that stop exchange
a few glimpses back and forth
I thought continue playing and the
younger ones even more apparent that my
presence was all to them and it is clear
this concept of ordinance has really
been embedded to this young children and
thus growing with such a mentality makes
it so difficult for you to perceive
people who are unlike you to be the same
I think I always loved dance dancing has
been a hobby for a long time when I was
8 or 9 my son I loved Sean Paul I would
play temperature and get visiting that
weekend then we jump to it but then give
the time when I decided to perform for
the first time in my primary school
Mohammed school was owned by Indians
this meant that the maturity of the
student population of Indian descent I
was allowed to perform although I was
way to create a dance piece based off a
bollywood song and I did that’s Bernie
Kerik elegido
was a song from the movie does and as
you can see
the top left that was me filling the
music back in the day the baggage Jesus
the glasses does a thing back in 207 let
me tell you and I didn’t think it was an
issue abiding by this discriminative set
of laws that imposed on me in fact I
thought wow this would be a great
opportunity for me to fit into my Browns
and as they were now see me as their own
but though I look back now I questioned
the role of the administration what
happened to those students who were put
down just because the music genre didn’t
promote the school wanted and as a 10
year old early coming out to perform was
only a daunting and daring test let
alone being put down just because you’re
not promoting with the school once I
believe that that is absurd and it was
this fixed mind see that has been
permitted into our lives making
difficult for people those same students
who who went off stage and weren’t
allowed to might have never gone up
Street again and that that is a problem
it was instilled to me by my society
that mixed-race kids our form of rejects
and with this insecurity I needed
someone to act as a pillar in my life to
pull me out of this world
it was drowning in and that’s someone of
my parents they did not succumb to the
name of marry within their colleges in
fact despite getting distillation and
disgraced on both committees then love
proved to be stronger than that although
this constant pursuit to evade societal
norms did catch up to them with frequent
arguments occurring might I need to find
the sense of the huge accrue I yearned
for this just because I didn’t see it at
home it was even more clear when my mind
set up separating and this was a painful
moment for me this is what I realized
that wow the differences within these
two cultures quickly rose up I would
hear both sides shame each of my parents
and that was when I knew this is
problem at times it felt I wanted you to
pick sides but this one time I was in
school and my teacher walked kid and she
called me out she’s like oh you have to
go home and at that point at the age of
seven the best thing ever is to leave
school half-day right so this is the
image my friends thought I was gonna
have dashing out of class running away
pack my bag and I got over the classroom
I saw my sister over there wearing a
backpack we then go into a car in or
driven off the next thing is that we
appear in a police station
I’m completely perplexed I see my mom my
grandma in a field of relatives they
then asked us to write a report or
statement about my friends arguing my
sister’s curiosity quickly popped up and
they had him behind bars I didn’t know
how to react at that point and I say it
is with this attitude that inhibits
interrelation relationship to work even
the few that constantly surpass this
don’t constantly face pressure to keep
up and once they don’t work the common
saying of i-told-you-so quickly pops up
and the few of them who accidentally
indulge in this because of the fear of
getting judged and ostracized they flee
leaving the young one alone hopeless I
was in a car one time who headed
somewhere and those traffic obviously
and I look outside as ever looks outside
when you’re driving a car right and I
see this young man he has a big afro he
has nice eyes obviously a big nose fat
nose like my skin tone smell to mine he
was very good-looking obviously but then
I look again not is wearing a dirty
t-shirt dirty jeans
sandals his pushing discard he looks
tired betta by life
exhausted a few minutes later I found
that he’s a chitara his finds fled he’s
double to the US and his mother passed
on and a lot for me to occur to me that
wow I wouldn’t be here today and it
wouldn’t matter at all
God knows where be and like this idea to
the university we have right now it is
so heartwarming seeing the vast number
of relationships we have here
interracial relationships this means as
a as a generation we’re slowly suffer
since primitive notion and no accepting
of other people and passing on this
belief is what’s crucial in promoting by
racism oh who cares who wanna be with
may be unaware Colombian a Bosnian a
Korean and Namibian who cares this
stigma associated mixed-race individual
should end it is been a long time though
of struggle figuring about our identity
trying to place ourselves into one
circle of the Venn diagram but no it is
time to create our own circle to make
our own circle and turn to be
significant statistic to the world
because at the end of the day red blood
still form is to our veins Nelson
Mandela once said no one is born hating
another person another person of
different skin tone a different
background or different religion people
learn to hate and even they can be if
they can learn to hate then they can be
taught to love for love cause were
natural to the human heart then it’s
opposite thank you [Applause]
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