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[quote=Anonymous][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]

There was a recent WaPo article by Lawrence Otis Graham, I believe his son is not mixed but fairer skinned, and he was called the N word for the first time at 15 and pretty much came undone. When parents tell you to prepare your child it's not because they wish for it to happen, but because it's pretty rough for that to happen period, and doubly so when the child is completely unprepared.[/quote]

I just want to correct the record on one point here.  I read the WaPo article/watched the interview with Lawrence Otis Graham on ABC News regarding this topic.  His son would be considered medium brown-skinned by (nearly universal) AA standards, so "dark" by white American standards.  He is not biracial, and no one would mistake him as such.  He is AA from a distance, so please don't muddy the OP's question with this comparison.  However, I agree that his parents have done him a great disservice by not preparing him to deal with racial bias.  That kid sounds as if he has been raised in a bubble![/quote]

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