Being biracial or multiracial doesn’t stop white parents from teaching their kids internalized racism and colorism.

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

The problem here isn’t that we think Richard Cohen gags at the sight of an interracial couple and their children. The problem is that Richard Cohen thinks being repulsed isn’t actually racist, but “conventional” or “culturally conservative.” Obstructing the right of black humans and white humans to form families is a central feature of American racism. If retching at the thought of that right being exercised isn’t racism, then there is no racism.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Richard Cohen in Context,” The Atlantic, (November 12, 2013). http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/richard-cohen-in-context/281426/.

Being biracial or multiracial doesn’t stop white parents from teaching their kids internalized racism and colorism.

Being biracial or multiracial doesn’t stop white parents from teaching their kids internalized racism and colorism. Not all interracial relationships begin with a white partner who has a deep understanding of systemic racism, white privilege and colorism. Undoing privilege and anti-blackness is a lifelong endeavor.

Lara Witt, “Stop Weaponzing Biracial Children,” Wear Your Voice: Intersectional Feminist Media, March 16, 2017. http://wearyourvoicemag.com/identities/race/stop-weaponzing-biracial-children.

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