 Right after T.J. is born, Glenda's husband left her as soon as he saw that the child that she birthed could not have been his.While this man and Glenda are both Caucasian, T.J. is African-American, Japanese-American, and European-American, or as he likes to put it simply, mixed-race or multiracial.after Glenda's husband leaves her, she goes on a downward spiral, addicted to and always on drugs, always having a different boyfriend, homeless.