Eartha Kitt with baby daughter and husband William Mcdonald.
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Iowa educator tells mixed-race kids: Blacks are too ‘stupid’ to go to school or live with whites
David Edwards | RAW STORY 15 Oct 2015
Two Iowa parents are calling for an educator at Bailey Park Elementary School in Grinnell to be fired for allegedly making racist comments to mixed-race children.
Geoff Burd choked up as he explained to KCCI that his daughter,
Nikki, came home from school and recalled that the para-educator had said black people and white people should not be a family or go to the same school.
“It’s an unbelievable situation,” Burd said, sounding defeated. “I work very hard to protect her. I have worked her entire life to protect her.”
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The Front Line Against Birthright Citizenship – The New Yorker
In Texas, hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of children are American citizens without the papers to prove it.
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These families are known as ‘Mixed status’ families.
When the oppressed turn into oppressors: Parenting & internalised racism
Article by Guilaine Kinouani
Excerpts selected by Glenn Robinson
The privilege of being lighter skinned
I am a lighter skinned Black woman. I am light enough to benefit from shadism but dark enough to still be accepted as Black. A uniquely privileged position. Throughout my upbringing I have received messages in my environment that this made me more desirable, more worthy, and/or more significant than my darker skinned counterparts. These messages were both covert and overt and articulated in the home and outside the home, at school, in the media etc… Pretty much everywhere. There is no doubt that I was, at times, spoken to in kinder voices or treated with more patience than my darker skinned peers or sisters by both people of colour and by White people, all things being equal. In time, I have learnt that my femininity and womanhood would be more easily accepted.
Parenting and internalised racism
…in our efforts to compensate for racism, we socialise children into injustice, compliance and complicity and instil a sense of inferiority in them. In doing so we may limit children’s scope to be themselves. We may reduce our capacity to respond to them with compassion and kindness. We may attend to stereotypes of what our children could be or could be seen as, rather than attending to them as unique persons. In a nutshell, we may contribute to racism’s self-fulfilling prophecies, perpetuate racial inequalities and more worryingly, may increase their risk of psychological distress.
The perpetuation of oppression is everyone’s business
- Internalising racism is adaptive. It is no pathology.
- The construction of reality is controlled by the dominant group and circulated throughout society
- those who are oppressed come to internalise the dominant group’s interests as their own
- the interests of the oppressors are presented as actually reflecting everyone’s best interests…
- the construction of a superior class is dependent upon the existence of an inferior one.
- double bind: Be like us to be human. Trying to be like us is evidence that you are not human.
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Many pearls of wisdom in this article!
Note: Parents of all colors can have internalized racism and bias.
Sometimes Saying “My Birthmom Didn’t Want Me” Is an Adoptee’s Coping Mechanism
“When you’re adopted, at some level, your story is defined by a person who did not want you. Not wanting you may have been defined by wanting the best for you — in fact, most of the time it is.” – …
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A Conversation Defining Transracial Adoption with Anderson Cooper (CNN)
Earlier this week I, along with 21 other adoptee’s, adoption professionals and activists joined together to write An Open Letter: Why Co-opting “Transracial” in the Case of Rachel Dolezal is Problematic. The result was a media blitz, helping to define the word transracial. I was interviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post and International Business Times, as well as other outlets who supported adoptees in our desire to reclaim the integrity of this word.
View my conversation with Anderson Cooper here.
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The Media Is Doing Exactly What Rachel Dolezal’s Abusive Homeschooling Parents Want
“Every time we go after Rachel, we are doing exactly what her abusive parents want.”
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Barbie Fashionista dolls – 3 shades of brown skin and 5 shades of white
eight skin tones, 14 facial structures, 22 hairstyles, 23 hair colors and 18 eye colors.
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It’s a start.
I’m still looking for ‘the natural’ – natural African hair.
Raising Biracial Children to Be Well Adjusted
By: Nadra Kareem Nittle,
Race Relations Expert
Mixed-race children face unique challenges, but raising biracial children who are happy and healthy is possible if parents teach them to embrace all facets of their racial makeup, settle in diverse communities and choose schools that celebrate multiculturalism, among other measures.
- Reject Myths About Mixed-Race Kids
- Celebrate Your Child’s Multiethnic Heritage
- Choose a School That Celebrates Cultural Diversity
- Live in a Multicultural Neighborhood
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