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Talia Felix's Race and Ethnicity

I'm not sure what the deal is lately, but as of this initial writing I have all in the last month been getting a lot of inquiries regarding my ethnicity and race -- some of them rather rude, too. (Edit: The cause was found to be some guy's YouTube video where he was criticizing my books with racist ad hominem attacks and accusing me of being "some white person" without having done any looking into the matter.)  So, let's just put this out there for everyone who is questioning the matter: Did you know a person can be TWO races, or even MORE?! It's even COMMON in some places! We ought to start filming Two Girls One Cup style reactions of people vomiting as they learn this treacherous idea of Two Races One Person. My family is really into the study of genealogy and as a result I have a good knowledge of my ridiculously complicated ancestry. No joke, we have the family lines traced all the way back to Ancient Egypt. But as far as the last 200 years go, I...