Bi-racial means you are nobody’s baby.
Silvija Singh, Pittsburgh, PA. Unlike my sibs, I do not look white, altho I have a white mother. I do not get treated like a...
Want my babies to be brown.
Jade Watson New York, NY I don’t have anything against interracial dating, but I choose to date and want to marry a black man, because...
Your baby: he looks so ethnic.
Jane Smith Hanford, CA Wheeling my infant son in his stroller through the local farmer’s market one Summer morning 23 years ago, this is the...
Baby born. What color? Healthy girl.
Kessara Eldridge Fredericksburg, VA My aunt – Irish/German ancestry married a Cape Verdean man. When they had their first child, my cousin, my grandfather didn’t...
Is this what racism feels like?
Christine Boston, MA I was shopping with a dear friend and her two children. She needed to use the restroom so I gladly took her...
Indian? At least he isn’t black!
Sherrill Dawn Koopot Phoenix, AZ …Worried how your baby will look? 41 years ago I married an East Indian Doctor; He was handsome, smart, kind...
…but, Daddy, what is a Negro?
Harvetta Asamoah Gathersburg, MD At 4 years old, while watching attacks on TV with dogs (at that age dogs terrified me under any circumstances), trembling,...
