“I can’t take this seriously,” she said.

That gut-reaction suspicion is one result of a lifetime of being told that you don’t fit in, that you are different. And not in a good way.

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The first time Tabria felt like the object of a man’s fetish, she was a senior in high school.

Hear her story, as well as a conversation with New York Magazine’s Maureen O’Connor, in this episode of “Other: Mixed Race in America.”

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