Why can’t you be beige, mommy?
Janai Leeb, Val Verde, CA. My 5 year old, bi-racial daughter is just discovering that her family may be a little different. I’m a black...
Our slave’s daughter sent me an email.
William Kincaid, St. Louis, MO. I use some literary license in choosing the word “daughter”. She is actually the great-great-granddaughter of one of my family’s...
No white dolls for my daughters!
Achilles C., Saint Paul, MN. I am a young African American single father, working hard to make sure my two daughters understand and value their...
Yes, she IS my real daughter.
Suzanne Strathman Alma, MO How many times have I been asked if Marquita is my “real daughter”. My thought is “She looks pretty real to...
Blonde daughter adopted beautiful black baby.
Irene Eggers Wheat Ridge, CO The baby’s light older siblings adore her.
“I am chocolate Mama is ice-cream”
Naghmeh Moshtael Portland, OR These are my daughter’s words. We live in a world of different race, culture and heritage. My husband in African American,...
I Am Not But I Am
Alexis S Atlanta, GA As we stepped on to the elevator accompanying a father and his two girls. She said “Look daddy black people”, and...
She’s so pretty, is she mixed?
Carla Los Angeles, CA This comment is what I often heard from many people, including my own regarding my daughter from birth until about 8...
Daughter biracial, father pushed us away.
Dawn E Josiah Landis, NC My daughter is Hawaiian American. I’m the white part of her, her dad is the Hawaiian part of her. After...
There isn’t a box for Other
Traci Butler USA I’m a Caucasian mother of a beautiful, amazing little girl who happens to be of mixed heritage, because her father is from...
Yes, she’s *really* my daughter!
Barbara Schmidt Metuchen, NJ We are a caucasian couple that adopted our daughter from Southeast Asia. Random people in the supermarket make dumb comments and...
Brown eyes, Red hair, Dark skin
Lora Fraracci Des Moines, IA Drake University My beautiful daughter.
Why’s my skin darker than yours?
Kristen Green Richmond, VA My five-year-old multiracial daughter said these words while sitting on my lap today while we were both in bathing suits by...
MY DAUGHTER is a n***** lover!!!?!??!!!!
Vickie Diemer San Diego, CA ‘Overheard” at 14 years old…. radiating through the entire house.
Biracial anxiety; black/white; both/neither?
Tracey Frierson North Ridgeville, OH Version 2: biracial anxiety; black/white; neither/both! I have two adult biracial daughters, three years apart, raised in the same home...
Chocolate, Vanilla, French Vanilla, Mocha: Family
Jeff Lewis Vienna, VA A few years ago my oldest daughter, now eight years old, described the skin color of my wife, me, herself and...
