Natasha Trethewey - I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh,...

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I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

Natasha Trethewey

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Ich habe in den Woolworths Dinge gehört, als ich noch ein Kind war. Die Leute sagten: „Oh, armes kleines Ding“, als hätten sie Verständnis dafür, dass ich in eine Welt hineingeboren wurde, die für interracial Ehen und biraciale Kinder noch sehr schwierig war .

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