Kate I think there is a part of you that missed the point and went into defence rather than see the issue being raised. I am sure this is not an attack on “white people”. The headline said “number of white people” not all white people.
Your defence of white people, using the position of experiencing racism is not something I will say is good for your mixed race child. This attitude of yours needs to be challenged by you.
I am in an interactial relationship as well and I have been directly or indirectly questioned by both races to justify my relationship. Its even worse becuase I am a black gay man with a white gay man.
I live in London as well and a lot of what the writer said are real life reality for many of us. I dread going out of London to middle england becuase there is a general sense of hatred that comes from a lot of white people there (mind my use of “a lot of).
Recently, I was in Shropshire to give a talk. To put this in perspective, Shropshire has a university with students from across the world. Walking down the street, I saw people looking out of their car windows and many walking next to me looking straight through me. I am not a tv star, so that could have been one excuse.
The next thing is, could it be my dreadlocks that is drawing attention to me? I have to explain it away. As a black person, I have to always excuse white people for their action. It is not becuase I have to, but just becuase it keeps me sane and focus.
Finally, your understanding of racism is flawed. There is “racism” that is a reaction to discrimination. The one black people give back to white people for years of oppression and discrimination. To many people, including myself, that is what white people call “reverse racism”. Which on its one is an acceptance that race only matters to white people and that becuase it does, everything has to be explain by white people in terms of race.
Piers Morgan wrote an article condemning the artistic and empowerment piece of work by a black woman. He does that from his lens of a white man. The factors that flawed his arguemnt.
He is a man; overtly privilege and extremely unaware. He is white, overtly privileged and extrmely oblivious to the everyday sexism, racism, bigotry and hatred that not just black people face everyday, but one that black women have to put up with from birth till death.
I am sure you want your child to not spend the rest of “his/her” life explaining their race as I am sure there are better thing that child can use his/her time for.
