Growing Up Bi-racial

April 7, 2006 | Joshua Baldwin

[Gay State Conservative]

I've always found it funny how,today,when someone is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black,that person *invariably* identifies him/herself as being "black".

[Red Badger]

I KNOW WHAT HE MEANS.......

[colorcountry]

I don't think the issues outlined in the article are a result of Bi-racial, but an issue of Bicultural. No one cares what color your skin is, or your eyes, etc. But as the article pointed out there is a difference in culture and what each one appreciates, like music, dress, food, religion, and the like.

[SF Republican]

My kids are half French and half Texan

[Red Badger]

There's an old racist type saying that a black woman can't have a white baby but a white woman can have a black baby...............

[Red Badger]

So, do they eat BBQ Snails?......

[blueminnesota]

'Cause there's no financial breaks in identifying as "white".

I find it funny how Arabs are white and Hispanics aren't. How does that work?

[taxed2death]

"I've always found it funny how,today,when someone is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black,that person *invariably* identifies him/herself as being "black"."

Except by "black" people....in which case...they're not "black enough".

Careful...that axe swings both ways.

[BlueStateDepression]

Maybe Barak Obama or Halley Barry could explain that one to ya.

[FormerLib]

I've always found it funny how,today,when someone is seven-eighths white and one-eighth black,that person *invariably* identifies him/herself as being "black".

With the exception of those who are unaware of it or actively attempt to hide that eighth, of course.

[Caipirabob]

Hmmm....My uncle is royalty, he's king of the rednecks. Before I married my wife, he asked "Y'all gwanna marry 'nutha brown gurl?". At which point he vanished from the invite list because I did just that. Later, his son married a little Mexican girl. Now we have the first generation of a proud family, that arrived on these here shores in 1635, fought and died for the Confederacy and then shed blood in the following great wars, of children who tan and don't burn on a hot summer's day.

And those children are so very loved by all of the kin it never has entered their mind they might be slightly darker than the average Hwita clan member.

Kin is kin.

[SF Republican]

do they eat BBQ Snails? ......- no but my wife has started drinking champagne like it was a long-neck beer bottle!

[Smogger]

Hmm... bi-racial?

What happend to plain old "mixed?"

;-)

[sgtbono2002]

Its tough for them , thats no lie.

[chimera]

Is anyone else as smitten by Eurasian women as me? Vietnamese-French is such a pleasing mixture...

[mongrel]

As my name indicates, I am in favor of the mongrelization of America. Maybe that would finally end the assumption that "race" somehow forces you to identify with a particular culture.

[hosepipe]

When calling someone white... important is...
Michael Jackson white, Tony Brown white, Julian Bond white, Steve Martin white, or few other tints must be specified.. else you will not how black someone is or is NOT..

[cripplecreek]

This poor girl has suffered horribly