Hiding in Plain Sight - Part 3

I could go on and on about my search for and discovery of the John Stinnett family but I find myself waylaid by the question of the significance of racial identity. I suppose it can't be helped considering I was raised in a country where those lines are drawn daily.

 I get annoyed when people ask me about my ethnicity. I am a woman of African descent whose bloodline includes
 indigenous Americans and European immigrants. I have been called a nigger in America and a tubab (white person) in Africa.

Black or white, my people were poor. Aunt Ginny's husband used to tease her by saying her family looked like they were straight out of The Grapes of Wrath.

Related posts: Hiding in Plain Sight - Part 1, Hiding in Plain Sight - Part 2