Dear Soledad:Black in America?

Soledad O'Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN: Special Investigations Unit, reporting hour-long documentaries throughout the year and filing in-depth series on the most important ongoing and breaking news stories for all major CNN programs. She also covers political news as part of CNN's "Best Political Team on Television."

Most recently, O'Brien has reported for CNN Presents: Black in America, a sweeping CNN on-air and digital initiative breaking new ground in revealing the current state of Black America 40 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The landmark programming features six hours of documentaries and weekly reports with a focus on fresh analysis from new voices about the real lives behind the stereotypes, statistics and identity politics that frequently frame the national dialogue about Black America.

From Wikipedia:

María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien[1] (born September 19, 1966 in St. James, New York) is a television journalist of Irish Australian and Afro-Cuban heritage. She is currently the host of CNN Special Investigations Unit on CNN.

Soledad:
Did it ever occur to you (that) you "pass?"

What would it REALLY be like being "Black in America" if you didn't?
Not part Australian. Not part Irish. Not part Cuban, even AFRO-Cuban.

But African-American "black."

It's like that old joke I heard when I was a kid who had yet to come out of the closet:
what's worse? being black or being gay?

You don't have to tell your parents your black.

And I mean this with all respect.