Okay bear with my long question
I come from a large Irish family and we are all white. Except for my two twin mulatto cousins. The mother of the twins left her husband for a short time and dated a black man for a while which should explain the twins. Anyway, they live in a very small town which is almost completely white. One of my younger cousin innocently pointed out one day that the twins do not look like the rest of the family. (Not to be mean or anything, just asked in a way that children with no concept of race will ask). And they asked there mother about it. The mother refuses to discuss it with them. So for the time being these children seem to not realize that they are not just white. No one in my family is racist obviously but my aunt (the final authority on the matter) seems to want to avoid the issue which is probably because of the affair. So my question is, Is my aunt in the right not to discuss the issue of their race with them for now? Is it even an issue?
2006-12-20
17:29:02
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korngoddess1027
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