{"id":57644,"date":"2019-02-20T23:32:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57644"},"modified":"2019-02-25T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:21:20","slug":"im-black-therefore-my-kids-are-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57644","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m black, therefore my kids are, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m black, therefore my kids are, right?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Parent<\/a>
\n2019-01-31<\/p>\n

Alicia Cox Thomson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nPhoto: Christine Kufske, www.clickphotography.ca<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Alicia Cox Thomson was raised to embrace both her Bajan and Polish cultures, and feels it\u2019s crucial that her own kids embrace their blackness.<\/em><\/p>\n

My daughter and I were in the produce section when it happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a beautiful baby!\u201d Pause. Eyes flick up. \u201cIs she yours?\u201d My jaw clenched. I felt awkward, angry and, weirdly, embarrassed. I was so floored that all I could say was, \u201cYes. Thank you,\u201d with a smile that didn\u2019t reach my eyes.<\/p>\n

My daughter and I do not look alike at first glance, so I guess it\u2019s a fair, albeit rude and intrusive, question. I\u2019m mixed race*<\/sup> (black dad, white mom), with curly dark hair and brown eyes and skin. My husband, Mike, is a blue-eyed white man. Simone, 22 months, is fair-skinned with blue-grey eyes and straight hair, while our son, Theo, 4, is darker-skinned with big brown eyes and curly hair. Neither of my kids look black, and I do. I know this. But I never considered the optics until that day in the grocery store\u2014which, considering how I grew up<\/a>, was perhaps na\u00efve…<\/p>\n

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