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Well, I say multi-racial. I'm black, Italian, a Mexican, but I also have Native American heritage. And you can look at numbers.

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I'm a quarter Latino, 25 percent, whatever the case may be, the Mexican side of the family, at least to my knowledge,

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it's indigenous heritage. I have my African heritage from the other side of my family. So two completely different cultures,

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two completely different family backgrounds. I'm not one thing or another. Who I am is comprised of everything in high school in particular.

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I had a lot of trying to think the word lot of issues, I guess, for lack of better word, of really having to, I guess,

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kind of identity crisis and try and fit where I figured it out was in black and white enough. In high school, I started realized

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more of my Spanish heritage, something I never thought of before. As I grew into high school, my parents look, I look more Latino and people approach me

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as presuming I was little Tino and that's something I've never dealt with before. So that started came into my consciousness.

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I was struggling to fit in and figure out where I fit in. But then so get realize, okay, this is it, I appear a certain way

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to people and this is how they perceive me and this is how they're going to approach me. It's something I don't

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think I really thought about before when I was in college. I took several black American Studies classes.

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I minored in Spanish. And I think part of it wasn't a conscious reason by being part of it

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was to overcompensate for the lack of knowing that about my culture, my own heritage, I knew my grandfather was my opinion.

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I remember seeing him when I was younger and pictures and stuff, but I never really knew anything about him or what he was about.

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So when he passed, all his family came out from Texas and that's the first time I ever seen them. All these Mexican relatives

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being in my house. And I had taken Spanish in school for a couple of years and I thought I was okay speaking it

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until they said something to me and I was like, Well, Latino culture made does make up a big part of who I am,

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but it is also a big missing piece. So as the years progress ahead, I do hope to learn more about myself and that heritage.

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Please impact on my life. I can enable a child, it's like 678910, different backgrounds, but I think that's actually pretty cool.

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My goal is to educate them gone up about all different aspects of their heritage. Just so they know who they are.

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It definitely is about embracing both are all aspects of who you are. It's a continuous process.