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Racism is an age-old stigma that our society has been dealing with. Black people think they’ve had it bad with racism from whites, and then there are those of both races. People of bicultural descent feel twice as bad when it comes to racism. They are persecuted by the white community because they are not white, and part black, and at the same time, persecuted from the black community for the exact opposite. “American society makes being biracial feel less like a blessing then a curse” (Courtney 7). It’s hard for them to find a place where they fit in. But who is putting them under this pressure? Courtney describes how he feels in Freedom From Choice. He tells how his black friends call him ‘too white,’ and how he feels about marking down what race he is on applications. People see his skin color first, but that�