What is your heritage? Where are you from . . . really? Where are your parents from? Are you Indian? Are you from Thailand? You’re Moroccan, aren’t you? Latin American, right? Are you from Colombia? You must be . . . a mulatto? Mulatto. A word I’ve never called myself. The word that means “mule.” I have a hard time identifying with a word coined by those who owned my forefathers. Those who would have been happy to own me today, if humankind had found
