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  • Any mom's with interracial DCs? What's your experience been?

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    06.16.08, 08:10 PM [ Flag ]

    • can't beleive you received no responses...post is over a month old. OP, if you do check this, I am mom to interracial DCs and I beleive that it is all about class, not race. Americans are more comfortable with discussing the latter, but with emerging UMS/UC diversity, this will change in our child's generation...and if Obama gets elected president.

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      07.24.08, 01:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • While I agree that class is a huge factor & often bigger than race - racism is still alive. When my dd was little - people would ask "where I got her from"? Strangers have said racists things to her father when she is present. I do, however, think that people are more comfortable with people no matter the race if they are from a similar class.

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        07.24.08, 01:39 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • that is very true

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          07.24.08, 01:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • I have also been asked where I got dd (I have Zahara Jolie to thank for that), you just have to laugh that off; question was from an ignorant, but not hurtful. You also just chalk up racist remarks to class (as in NO class) when they are made.

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            07.24.08, 01:55 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

            • NP: ITA. I had some obnoxious kid (old enough to know better!) confuse me for the nanny, and then act hugely shocked that I was dc's mother (I'm Asian, dc looks Caucasian). Best to keep a sens of humor about these things, and realize that most of it comes from ignorance and rudeness, rather than true racism or desire to hurt.

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              07.24.08, 01:58 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • How would Obama becoming president change a black person's soci/econ status? Are black kids suddenly going to complete HS?

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        07.24.08, 02:05 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • fool

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          07.24.08, 04:11 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • Obama becoming president really drives his message, "only in America could my story even be possible" home for many AA/interracial/Afro-immigrants that are growing up in the US. Many get the message that there is a glass ceiling for them, no matter what they do. This would turn that into a misconception thats been misproven.

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            07.24.08, 05:56 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • DC is interracial. I have nothing to report. There has been nothing about my experiences related to this that is even remotely interesting. Never a comment, or funny look. Either that, or I am totally oblivious.

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      07.24.08, 01:38 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • May depend on which races. Dc are Asian/Caucasian mix, and have not had any negative experiences. Also probably not a big deal in NYC, but might stick out like a sore thumb in a place, like say, Idaho?

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      07.24.08, 01:42 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • My Asian/white child has.

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        07.24.08, 01:59 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • I am curious to see what people think of AA/C couples on UES/UWS, my DH and I are thinking of moving there. I'm prone to think it will be more of a class issue than anything else. Any other experiences/thoughts?

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        07.24.08, 05:58 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • people sometimes are like "wow he's dark" or something stupid like that I just say yea he take after his father.

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      07.24.08, 01:54 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • no real experience regarding his race, except when we go down South

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      07.24.08, 06:57 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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