I'm mixed. My dad is light skinned (a tan white but middle eastern features with blue/green eyes) and my mom is brown skin with brown eyes. I'm naturally tan between the two of them. My mom is the TBM, my dad hates the church so he was never seen at meetings.
Anyways, in my old ward where I used to live, everyone knew us. Everyone absolutely loved my mom. No one treated us differently. They knew my dad was an asshole and knew he didn't go to church and they were kind to us anyways and so many people were there for us and cared about us.
Five years ago, my family moved and my mom and I went to church for a month probably and were inactive for like two years. No one talked to us. I don't know if it was because we're ethnic or because my dad was never there or what. But even after those two years when we returned, barely anyone talked to us. And old white people would always give me looks. They would interact with the other youth way more than me. Again, not sure if racist or because my dad wasn't there.
I'm an attractive girl and I know this and boys in the ward would mess with me and were so immature towards me but would never get to know me or date me. Adults that worked with the youth always told me it was because they thought I was pretty and I "intimidated" them but then all they would do was talk about the white girls in the stake and those were the girls they would date. Not sure if racist or no dad problems.
But I will say, I honestly felt like people looked down on my mom and I because we're mixed. And I also felt like because my mom is darker than me and my dad never showed up that maybe people thought she had me out of wedlock or something like that which wasn't at all the case. But, if that's what people thought, that's racist. All the treatment though really fucked me up and all I could think was why are these people so rude to my mom and I, we're no different than they are. There was a time once that I watched a lady completely ignore my mother speaking to her right in front of her. Why? No fucking clue.
So that was a big shelf breaker. Also the fact that I never saw colored mormons, it pissed me off. I just didn't like how all these white people who already thought they were superior, thought they were extra superior for also being mormon. And my grandfather is half black half white with dark skin and European features and he is one of my favorite guys on the whole planet and just knowing the church's history drives me insane. My bishop also adopted four black kids and we've talked about that as well and the history fucks him up too.