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>lemme clarify my position. i think that for a Black person >to date/marry/make babies with a white person is an example >of bad politics. they made a choice that was/is anti-Black >(i know i'm gonna catch heat for that assertion).
I'm not giving you heat... Can you expound a bit? What does a decision have to consist of in order for it to be "anti-Black"? A baby with lighter shade of melanin?
all things >considered there still remains something about your >partner's whiteness that has gotten you (the Black partner) >smitten. and that's so fucked up shit and is really on some >self-hate (but no one will admit this).
No, I hear you and I've witnessed what you're talking about. However, I absolutely do not believe this applies to all Black/White couples... It sounds as if you've been there before or something (I mean, really, what other perspective do you have to go off of and have any validity?).
>with that said kids of interracial couples, specifically >Black-white couples, will be exposed to their Black parent's >bad politics.
Is that really such a bad thing? I mean, if I hadn't been exposed to what really happened with my Cherokee relatives I would've never made it on this board or vowed to understand the struggle that others face. If my grandmother hadn't moved here from Chile I would've never been interested in the screwed up politics and foreign policy in South America (which led to an interest in more global things). The truth is, there is no way to see America for what it is until someone makes it clear to you (whether that be yourself or someone else), and interracial children are becoming the future of America, like it or not.
and too many grow up on some "we are the >world" bull. all kids are faced with confusion and try to >make sense of the world's craziness. little Black kids born >to an interracial couples face a dimension to their >confusion that leaves them unable to comprehend and >articulate their own situation as a Black person. many >either remain confused or actually get gain a perspective >once they get to college.
This is true, and I believe the Black/White children certainly have to deal with the most scrutiny. My best friend is Black/White and can't even begin to tell me how screwed up Georgetown is. He has people asking him if he's on the basketball team, you know? And this guy is a friggin scholar with a full ride! But he's told me repeatedly about the existentialist ideas he's having to cotemplate now that he is REALLY contemplating the real world. Can't be Black enough, but he'll always be Black. I hear ya. But, as evolving mammals, we're going to continue to have sex until we're all the same damned color anyway, so I see us interracial kids as the pioneers and poster children--REAL affirmative action. lol.
peace,
***I'm a Child of Production***
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