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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be child abuse for me to raise my white looking blue-eyed blonde daughter as black. I only have this suggested to me by old school AAs who dislike white people. They actually change their tune once they see the kid. She's platinum blonde and very blue-eyed. Once they see her picture, they give a strange side-eye look amazed and then say, yeah, I understand why you wouldn't.

Regarding self-selecting for myself- I look very biracial- I only get flack from AAs when I tell them I am not black, but biracial. They invariably tell me that I'm black because at some point in my life I will be called the N word. That is the dumbest bull I've ever heard. But, it's a pervasive talking point because I hear it all of the time.
[b]Oddly enough I have never been called the N word except when AAs are warning me it's coming. They are the problem![/b]

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There is so much truth in your post.  As a biracial person who grew up in DC, my experiences with AAs in DCPS were horrific.  I agree that they cause more havoc and Hell for biracial children.    If I was the OP, I would avoid DCPS unless it was the JKLMM schools.  Placing a biracial child especially one who doesn't identify as being AA in a predominately AA school in DC can be Hell on earth.            [/quote]

Misery loves company.  It's not that I can't understand why some AA kids are so eager to recruit the biracial kids to their "team" as it were whilst taking the (probably rarely presented in their lives) opportunity to make themselves feel superior by putting the biracial kids down as less-than, but it's just not fun being on the receiving end of that.  Kids (and some adults!) are fond of the blow-your-candle-out-to-make-mine-brighter mode of interaction.  It sucks.[/quote]

My friend (Carolyn Battle Cochrane) did a documentary years ago called, "Biracial Not Black Damn It."  It is talks about some of the things biracial children endure from all races.  However, it really digs deeper into the problems that biracial and multiracial people endure from the AA community.  Actually every year in Los Angeles I attend a Mixed Roots Literary Film Festival http://www.mxroots.org  in which those of us from the multiracial community discuss our experiences through film, books, workshops.   People often times assume it is the white side of the family or white people who mistreat biracial children.   Society ignores racist AAs and how they mistreat biracial people.  For DC to claim it's a progressive city is laughable.  The fact that we even have to have a discussion on which school that a biracial child should attend in DC proves that DC has a long way to go.  Some AAs in DC still have southern mentalities and are quite provincial.   So, it's no secret that some harbor resentment towards biracial people.        [/quote]

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