So as most of you know, my family is a biracial unit. My husband is black, I am white, and my son is the perfect mashup of the two of us...(aka he took all my perfect qualities and combined them with my husband's perfect qualities and voila...an amazing kiddo if I do say so myself :) )
Anyhow- it still amazes me how much hate there still is in the world. It does worry me for my son.
Here's what sparked this post. For several months I have been an administrator on a subscription box trading group. We oversee trades and what not but for the most part people trade among themselves, we keep a list of bad trades, mediate, etc. So one of the kid subscription boxes sent out a really cute stuffed doll. As people posted more and more of the dolls up for trade, I realized all the dolls being traded were the (as they put it) 'tan' dolls. Some families got the 'blonde hair blue eyed' doll, and other families got the 'tan-skinned brunette' doll. So obviously white and black (or more 'ethnic' doll). The women said they were trading the dolls because their child would rather have a doll that 'looks like them'. ?????? What 3 year old (or 4 or 5) year old would 'rather' have a doll that looks like them?! When I was that age I'd have been happy with any doll given to me! And the posts were worded like this 'not that it really matters, but I think we'd rather have the blonde haired doll instead of the tan skinned brunette doll'. <---do you see the issue? Where is the mention of the skin color on the 'blonde' doll? She's just blonde, but the brunette is tan AND brunette.
I do think I'm biased because of my family but still. Children need diversity to see that they do not live in an only white bubble, or an only black bubble, or an only asian bubble. ANY bubble.
It's 2014....Jeez
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