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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should get help OP. Your children are healthy ( hopefully). But, its so gross that you think that out of all the things that can make someone’s life difficult race is the end all. Get perspective - your not a woman in the middle east, someone fleeing from Russia/N.Korea, and your children aren’t born with chronic disabilities like ERB ( look it up).

Signed a black parent [/quote]

Someone fleeing from North Korea will gain freedom if they are successful while a Black American born here will always have to deal with racism.[/quote]
They also have a 90% chance of death. Black Americans are not trying to escape a murderous regime. Many are in fact getting welfare, part of the military,  college professors,  bus drivers, and doctors [/quote]

I know the original PP is a black parent, but the comparison shouldn’t be to someone born in a different regime, but to another American child with a different skin tone.

Signed a brown parent of a white girl who I felt deep guilt about bringing into the world after the 2016 election.  [/quote]

Yes, I love when people toss out the “things could worse so shut up” line. In 1955, they could have said, you’re much better off than your ancestors, so why the complaints about voting right, segregation, etc.   [/quote]

I think the perspective is important. OP sounded depressed and her attitude is not one I’d want to pass on to my kids, but to each her own. I’m a white mother of brown daughters (not AA) and I raise them exactly like I would if they were white, with the addition of developing pride in their heritage. [/quote]

I'm not sure it's fair to suggest that the OP is passing along any particular attitude to her kids, as all parents probably harbor fears, concerns, etc. that they don't share with their children.  I'm the black father of a black son and I admit that there are (rare) moments when I've wondered whether we've done him any favors by bringing him into this world...I'm thinking singular episodes like the Trayvon Martin matter...really just realizing that there are people that will look at him, fear him, and then possibly act on that fear to anything from the merely annoying to tragic effect.

It's not a daily thing and I try not to burden him with it, but I can't afford to raise him in complete ignorance of the fact that his movements and behavior will likely be more scrutinized than that of his white (and frankly, non-black) peers. My parents gave me similar warnings. I used to resent the unfairness of it. And in a way, I resented [i]them[/i] for even talking about. They were scared for me. I get that now.

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