On July 12th - right after the #BLM-demonstration in Dordrecht, I wrote this piece. The conversations with my parents teach me how important it is to keep asking questions and - as a millennial and a third-gen kid /Rotterdammert - limited my perception is.

It took a while before I learned what questions to ask and honestly, I still am learning. Before I "just accepted things were the way they are" But the conversations with my father - who came to the Netherlands to study and put everything on everything for it (just like my mum) - show me a reality that is unfamiliar to me.

I identify as being Multi-Etnic - I used to call myself mixed. Double blood (dubbelbloed) did not fit because it means a “a combination of two” while my parents (and ancestors) are already mixed. Mixed in the American perspective is seen as a combination of black and white - in Europe we look at it differently