shocked by a story in the Daily Mail -article below?

Question

the title of the article:
'I love my mixed race baby - but why does she feel so alien?'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=467787&in_page_id=1879

what are your thoughts of this mother / story?

Answer 1

My babies are mixed as well as myself. My dad is black/white and my mom is Indian/Mexican. I turned out with very light brown hair and green eyes. I was out of place, but I never felt out of place. I have always felt loved and wanted by my parents and family. They raised me to know that no one else opinion matters. It's how you feel inside.

To me she does not love herself. You have to be able to love yourself before you can love anyone else. Who cares what race your kids are. I have personally seen racist people accept a mixed child. Because the love out weighs the color of their skin. She needs to learn this.

Things like this makes me so mad. I have three wonderful kids and wouldn't care if they were purple and everyone was commenting (good/bad) about them. But obviously everyone does not feel this way. Once we as people can get past the color or race of another this would be a better place.

Answer 2

Do you have children of a mixed race? I do. So I felt this story was a bit boring because I feel the same way. I'm hispanic and my husband is caucasian. I always thought my hispanic genes would trump my husbands. I have very black hair and chocolate brown eyes. My daughter was born with light brown hair with blond highlights and blue eyes and fair skin. Everyday I look at her and wonder how her dad's genes overpowered mine, and wish she looked like me because she is my only daughter. I am almost sptting image of my mother. Maybe when my daughter gets older she will look more like me.

Answer 3

OMG, what a shallow image obsessed woman she is! That poor child, growing up with a mother who thinks of her as alien, and worse still, writes an article about it.

Answer 4

Kinda sounds like she has issues with it to me. It seems like she is making a bigger deal about it to me then others are. For example her friend stating that she was getting darker, and the lady saying the baby would be pretty becuase her dad was Indian. They were not saying anything bad, and it seems she took it way over board although I was not with her when it happened.

Answer 5

I admire her honesty. In truth, her child will sometimes face the difficulties she talks about. Better to be prepared to deal with them. I'm sure all parents have a little bit of a voice in their head talking about what could have been different. We just don't admit it as openly.

Answer 6

She probably just wants to clear the air that her daughter is very well loved....and that the color of her skin does not matter...i am sure many people w/ bi racial children feel the same as this mom....

Answer 7

i like it, she tells a truth we rarely speak today. Mothers love their kids (or should, at least) no matter what color, gender, or even disability they have, but there are sometimes pangs of "what if", and we are made to feel guilty for normal human feeling.

Answer 8

soooooooooooooo

it was ok to get with a black man she was attracted too

yet...........she has some issues with having a mixed race baby


blonds will be extinct in 2050 they say

Answer 9

Sensational stories sell newspapers. Ignore it.

Answer 10

wow my daughter is a mixed race and she is the most beautiful thing i have ever seen! this is a strange reaction to be sure.