Grace Byers (photo cred: Instagram) Today, author and Empire actress Grace Byers broke down her struggles on Instagram of being a biracial woman, including feeling the need to claim her white or Black side more. Byers, who is Caymanian and American said she made herself small to not make other people feel uncomfortable. She began her post saying, "I am a Biracial woman; a proud Afro-Caribbean Woman." Byers continued, "While the world accosted me to interpret my mixed heritage for the purpose of comfort-labeling, I acquiesced. Feeling required to constantly defend my Blackness, while clearly acknowledging that the world did not receive me as white, was exhausting." Byers also said that she felt displaced. The 35-year-old said she allowed other people to define her. She said, "To please others became second-nature as my instinct was to always protect others - and their feelings - at all costs." View this post on ...