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HCsMom . . . wow. That is an incredible way to look at it. It IS an opportunity to promote adoption and why shouldn't people look at your beautiful child!
The challenges I faced growing up as a biracial child and raising biracial children and AA children is more around finding positive role models in the media for them, books that have characters that reflect their reality, even dolls are either black or white. Also their are very few transracial families and images on T.V or in the media for them to connect to.
Sure when we go out some people may stare or ask stupid questions but I tell myself and my children that it is from a lack of knowledge and not malice. For some it might also be jealousy or curiosity in terms of us having a happy family and them wanting to pursue that for themselves.
I found this when I was a teenager ( I think from the Interacial Voice web page) and I posted it on my wall. It perfectly captures how I felt as a biracial child and made me feel proud.
Racially Mixed Bill of Rights
I HAVE THE RIGHT...
Not to justify my existence in this world.
Not to keep the races separate within me.
Not to be responsible for people's discomfort with my physical ambiguity.
Not to justify my ethnic legitimacy.
I HAVE THE RIGHT...
To identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify.
To identify myself differently from how my parents identify me.
To identify myself differently from my brothers and sisters.
To identify myself differently in different situations.
I HAVE THE RIGHT...
To create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial.
To change my identity over my lifetime -- and more than once.
To have loyalties and identification with more than one group of people.
To freely choose whom I befriend and love.
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