Elizabeth Atkins

Elizabeth Atkins teaches her popular Elizabeth Atkins Write it Right! workshops at Wayne State University in Detroit and Wayne County Community College District, and is writing screenplays based on her best-selling novels: White Chocolate, Dark Secret, and Twilight (co-authored with Billy Dee Williams), the provocative and pioneering love stories about mixed-race characters whose lives challenge conventional attitudes about color and culture. Her newest book, Other People's Skin, deals with "colorism" and black women, and the favoritism/discrimination based on light or dark skin, hair texture, and eye color.

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[Dawn0564]

i am going to read that book! this woman is interesting.

[yak6ex]

@tertra114

Are you saying she's lying? She can't help being mixed. It's not funny.

[Alize101586]

Sometimes the beliefs that church ppl have really upset me. There should be no opposition b/c God loves everybody. If one is a true Christian you shouldn't care about who is getting married to who as far as race is concerned. God delights in diversity!

[tertra114]

Anyone can CLEARLY see she is a black women lol

[wtcgnub]

I am mixed race and I can see the black in you no matter what you are still black they say I dont know what you say you are?, My mother was ok with marrying a white man and my dad was to my dad was ok with it and so was their familys, my mother said if i had kids with a white man they could be blonde cause i have naturally brown hair, I have no problem in fitting in i am proud of who i am

[DarkLadyJade]

Wow, I never would have guessed that she's mixed if the family photos weren't shown.

[vanessamjeff]

Thank you for posting this video. As a biracial woman, I grew up finding it difficult to figure out where I fit in. Until recently, I now know I don't have to "fit in" I just have to be me. I've seen a lot of videos about these issues and I think it's great that people are talking about it. Now, biracial children of the next generation don't have to feel this way and hopefully someday everyone will feel they "fit in" no matter their race, ethnicity, religion or sexual identity.