One Thing I Can’t Pass On to My Daughter: White Privilege

One Thing I Can’t Pass On to My Daughter: White Privilege

Brain, Child: the magazine for thinking mothers
2013-10-24

Martha Wood
Momsoap: Sometimes I froth at the Mouth

A while back, I met up for a play date with another white mother to children of color. As we sat chatting and watching our daughters play, I noticed something about her daughter, next to Annika, and no doubt, she noticed that same thing. And so I said it aloud. Something I’d never noticed about Annika before that day. And since, I have reflected upon it many, many times, wondering exactly what it meant.

“If you put our daughters in a group of black children, nobody would ever guess they were biracial.”

Both of our girls have skin tones similar to the average African American. Both brown eyes. Both, very thick, curly hair.

She nodded. Knowingly…

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