tionne was bi-racial but inherited sickle cell from her african side, which caused her a lot of illness and suffering over time. she overcompensated by dating violent rappers like Mack 10, which resulted in a whole lot of beatings but not much resolution to the question of being a mixed girl.

rozonda's dad was indian, which means she inherited long-growing natural hair which resolved itself into long curls, one of the rarest natural hairtypes, attracting a lot of jealousy from her black mom's associates and friends. she became an 80's hip-hop dancer and let the men of that industry knock her up and force her to abort, causing obvious trauma and incapacity to pair-bond over time.

a good writer could take this kind of material and churn out a dickens-level tragedy set within the scope of post-cold-war-american racial politics, but it would probably be suppressed anyway.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5858658&forum_id=2,#49828774)