You start talking about racial issues, especially with upper-class white folk, immediately they go into the denial stage of "Prove to me why this is true."

Brad Simpson, age 31, biracial child of a white mother and black father, quoted by Lise Funderburg in Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1994) p. 171.