Creative Nonfiction Contest Finalist

Does Pumpkin Pie on Thanksgiving Make Me “Black•ish?”

The internal racial debate of growing up “mixed” in America

Michele James Roberts
Inspired Writer
Published in
4 min readDec 22, 2020

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As I planned to cook for Thanksgiving, I felt a familiar pit in my stomach as I considered what I would make for dessert. Growing up, our family would eat pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving, and…

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Michele James Roberts
Inspired Writer

I write simply to share another perspective in the conversations of life.