Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side |
Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side
Newsweek.com
2009-01-24
Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist
When I took my newly born son from the nurse’s arms, I did the expected counting of his fingers and toes. I checked under his cap for hair and flexed his little limbs. Once confident he was whole and healthy, I began to wonder how dark his skin would get. As a black woman married to one of the world’s fairest men, I worried that our son would be so light-skinned as to appear Caucasian, and I wanted him to look black…
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