Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People

Are you familiar with the Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People written by Maria P. P. Root?  I haven't looked at the manifesto (first published in 1996) in years.  I remember thinking then how polly-annish it was.  Then it seemed futile to think of my mixed-race heritage as anything that I could define.  Instead, it was an unspoken secret, and sometimes my shame.  Now, I find that I am living by the tenents of the Bill of Rights whether or not others accept those rights as mine.  I share the Maria P. P. Root's Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People here:

"I have the right

• not to justify my existence in this world
• not to keep the races separate within me
• not to be responsible for people's discomfort with my physical ambiguity
• not to justify my ethnic legitimacy
• to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify
• to identity myself differently than how my parents identity me
• to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters
• to identify myself differently in different situations
• to create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial
• to change my identity over my lifetime--and more than once
• to have loyalties and identify with more than one group of people
• to freely chooose whom I befriend and love"