Rhonda Kaplan
Hyde Park, MA
I’m sorry for submitting another race card, but I figured out how to make the same statement more elegant in six words. We are a multiracial family–I am white and my husband is black and Asian. When my son was a baby, (white) people would often make this comment to me. This comment meant a number of things: 1. a fishing expedition, a way of asking “what is he?”; a denial that this blue-eyed, white-skinned woman could birth a brown-skinned, black-eyed baby; a level of discomfort that my son and I don’t “match.”
