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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused by this conversation.  It's interesting.  Many of my biracial friends and their kids identify as black, which is very different from my kid doesn't look black and he's treated as Latino.  If you raise your kid as black, they will believe they are black.  It's almost as if you don't want them to identify.  All of this 1/4 this and 3/4 that is just dumb.  Eventually, someone is going to call you kid a nigger and you better be prepared.[/quote]

Will the person calling them that name be you?  Because you sound a little unhinged and I'm not sure what your point is.  Regardless of how you raise your kid, other people's (and teachers') perceptions are going to play their own role.[/quote]
This. These whack jobs that talk about all the racists who will be on the attack when it's really them need to get help. There's a lot of haters like the "n" word poster who are the problem for mixed kids. They're fine when they're left alone and allowed to choose their own identity without reverse racists spewing their Jim Crow nonsense.[/quote]

I think the difference is that my brown Latino kid if called a nigger would just laugh, my white Latino kid would laugh a little louder, but a kid who identifies himself as black might be hurt emotionally.  And believe me if you go far enough down south they will call you a nigger even if you are Latino as long as you are brown.  My white kid would absolutely be treated as white and will be probably until people notice the accent in their last name and even then.  But I agree - as much as you try to define yourself and your kids on your own terms, you will have to cope with how different groups identify you and your kids, and if your kids will be identified in different categories by everyone except their family I think the world will get more complicated.  Certainly if you have a white looking Alejandro you may get some push back outside of your community.  Since they have done studies on people applying for jobs where those with names like JaQuan do not get to the interview stage I cannot see handicapping my kid that way especially if they might end up looking white - because everyone would find that funny as heck and think the mom crazy.[/quote]

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