This grandma’s love is color blind.
Mara Davis Bermuda Dunes, CA I have one mixed grand-daughter and i love all of my grand-children. Love is not shaped by skin color but...
Yes, he really is my child.
Denyse C. McGriff Oregon City, OR I am in mixed race marriage and my son is very light in complexion. I get asked all the...
I adopted two girls from China!
Anonymous. Omaha, NE “Excuse me, what’s your nationality?” “I’m from the U.S.” “No,” he chuckled, “like, where are you originally from?” “I was born and...
Biracial??! Maybe. But, call me black.
Tiffanie Luckett Greenbelt, MD I was adopted at nine months of age. My parents are black. My biological parents were Caucasian and black. My parents...
I’m biracial but others see black.
Willie McBride Long Beach, CA I was born in Taiwan to a Chinese mother and African American father. I was orphaned an American serviceman and...
My kids mark Navajo not Caucasian
Ginee Scarbough St. Johns, AZ In this crazy world where being white is a bad thing, my mix raced hubby and mix race children mark...
You are the color of us
Jennifer Davis St. Augustine, FL I am a white mother of two bi-racial children. It is hard when society identifies them as black when they...
Having a foot in two canoes.
Emily Wood Anchorage, AK Growing up in small town Minnesota where the local summer celebration was “Swedish Heritage Days” could be awkward for a girl...
What will my children look like?
Madeline Murphy New Orleans, LA My father is white. My mother is black. My experiences and perspective as someone who is visibly “mixed” is something...
My Black-White Family. It’s beautiful.
Bill Doyle Valparaiso, IN Wish I could be there with my Eugene Cousins.
Mixed Latina two times “different”, lonely.
Mara Andino Los Angeles, CA My parents are both Puerto Rican. My mom has red hair and freckles constantly mistaken for Northern European, my dad...
Ask me about the cricket test
Michael Simpson UK If you want to hear that most quintessential of English race conundrums, then look no further than Norman Tebbit’s ‘cricket test’, A...
Curiosity about race is only natural.
Keiko McCracken Anacortes, WA I am half white, half Japanese. I can’t count the times someone has asked about my race, commented on my looks...
But your kids won’t be white.
Elizabeth New York, NY This is what a family member said to me upon announcing my engagement to a black man. It was actually more...
