Mixed Cultures: Growing up in a biracial and bicultural family

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             ...Rasta's are only good for one thing; making a whole lot-a babies and smokin' a whole lot-a GANJA!!!"5
             My grandfather knew that he could not really do anything about the marriage. What was done was done. Back then society let alone Native American didn't take too much pride in divorce so that was out of the question. At first my grandfather wanted to send my mother back to Guyana but my mother refused the last thing, that she wanted was to return back to that country at that particular point in time. Therefore, they kept the marriage a secret until my mother would see my grandmother again.
             The hard part of this marriage was telling my father's parents.
             "Your mother and I were both scared to tell them. My mother wanted me to marry someone who, in her terms, was of full American decent so that this way I wouldn't be sent back to Jamaica. I was going to school at the time and the last thing I wanted was to go back home...we left at 8 o'clock am and didn't arrive in Jamaica until about 9 o'clock that night...it sounds like a long ride but I kid you not it wasn'
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