Author: Abigail Ross

While finding it difficult to navigate our tumultuous love lives, our parents seem to have no problem commenting on who we should be with and why they are suitable for us.

Except they didn’t know the truth. I craved acceptance from a place I was not receiving any. Behind the scenes, my heart was broken.

The misconception that race and love are negatively intertwined is so deeply embedded by traditional Americans that it puts suffocating, unnecessary pressure onto mixed-race couples.