Mishna Wolff grew up in the 80's in a poor black neighborhood with her single father who truly thought he was a black men. He strutted around with the short afro type perm, polyester pants, gold chains and at times even the white patent leather shoes. Mishna's father tried early to make his white daughter "down". Boy did he try!
Sadly for Mishna, she just didn't quite fit in. She couldn't sing or dance and she definitely couldn't "double Dutch". No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't quite live up to her father's definition of "down". She was shy, not cool and felt painfully white in a neighborhood where she tried, but just couldn't fit in.
I'm Down is hip, hysterical and will have you howling with laughter. It will also have you questioning what it means to be black and white in America.
Read it, talk about it and definitely recommend it to others.
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