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[quote=Anonymous]So, I skipped ahead a few pages. OP, I am mixed and my husband is AA. My sons look mixed and the oldest is in 1st grade. The Latino and AA kids at school tell him that he is white, but we educate him about his heritage at home (btw the white kids don't care at all). We go to a predominantly black church, participate in predominantly black community sports and are HBCU grads, so we have predominantly black friends. We have a black pediatrician, a black dentist and try to patronize as many black-owned businesses as we can. Still, many of his activities (camp, scouts, music) are multi culti. Someone on this thread earlier said that it might be hard for a black child who is academically gifted because they could be ostracized for trying to be or sounding "too white." Ok...those people will exist but they aren't the villains. The villains are the systematic issues that convinced generations of black people that they were inferior in the first place. Your child, OP, needs to be able to deal with both realities. By some, his blackness will be challenged. Because of others, he will have to overcome his blackness. Pride in and understanding of your heritage begins at home. Don't put your child in a bubble.[/quote]

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