'I love my mixed race baby--but why does she feel so alien?'

[BabyBeastie]

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_01/lowriturnerDM_228x705.jpg
"Lowri Turner is in emotional turmoil over the colour of her child's skin."

I am white and I have two sons from my first marriage who are both milky complexioned and golden haired. My twin sister, who I spend a lot of time with, has a Danish partner. As a consequence, she has two boys who are also pale skinned and flaxen haired.

Into this positively Scandinavian next generation, I have now injected a tiny, dark-skinned, dark-haired girl. To say she stands out is an understatement. :confused:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=467787&in_page_id=1879

[ThomasMore]

Do you have a link to the article?

[buzzthepug!]

What an ass! Lowri, that is.

Let's just hope the baby isn't a midget like mommy.

[The_Elucidator]

Here is a link from the guardian

My mixed emotions

Lowri Turner had a liberal upbringing and married an Asian man, but it wasn't until she had a mixed race baby that she began to confront her own prejudices

Saturday July 7, 2007

We all know the theory: love is colour blind. It is a somewhat simplistic and sugary ethos, but one that many of us were brought up on. My parents - my mother was a magistrate, my father a prison reformer - were hand-wringing liberals, who fervently held to this notion. When I went to the local primary school, my class was a boisterous melee of white British, West Indian, Greek Cypriot, Irish and Ugandan Asian kids. It wasn't all happy, smiley multi-culturalism, but all we rubbed along pretty well.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,2120552,00.html

[Wolfcounsel]

Lowri, we're all varying shades of tan. Get over it, candy ass!

[Rhino]

Do you have a link to the article?Link added.

BabyBeastie, you need to put a link in your post whenever you quote or copy over an article or part of an article from somewhere else. It's a copyright restriction that we must comply with.

[BabyBeastie]

Link added.

BabyBeastie, you need to put a link in your post whenever you quote or copy over an article or part of an article from somewhere else. It's a copyright restriction that we must comply with.
I know. I got distracted. Sorry.

She is a horrible person. Obviously caving in to the displeasure of others. I'll bet there is someone out there who would like to adopt that baby. She doesn't deserve to keep it.

[BabyBeastie]

Let's hope the baby doesn't end up with her facial features. She's got a lot of nerve. I hope the baby is prettier than she is.

[Lazarus]

Let's hope the baby grows up to have enough fashion sense to not go out in public wearing unfinished clothes with the edges unhemmed... What's this "dangling-thread" BS she's got going there?:rolleyes:

[The_Elucidator]

Let's hope the baby grows up to have enough fashion sense to not go out in public wearing unfinished clothes with the edges unhemmed... What's this "dangling-thread" BS she's got going there?:rolleyes:

She is probably in just so much turmoil she didn't notice...

[DesertFox]

What the Wolf said. This broad's so typically liberal that you can't help rolling your eyes. She has to tell the whole wide world what's passing thru her vacuous head, rather than hanging on to something just for herself, keeping a part of her special for just her -- such as, the self-doubts that everybody already knew she would have because they'd already examined those sides of themselves. Here comes Blondie, late to the party of life, slow to pick up on the things everybody else picked up on 15 years ago, and announcing them to the world in breathless tones. "Did you know that I blah blah blah," as if the world just started this morning when she finally took the blinkers off her eyes and began to see, really see.

Lowri, you dolt, just because you're slow on the uptake and never examined yourself in any depth, don't think the rest of the world is eager to hear about your journey of self-discovery. You've still not learned what the rest of us long ago learned -- you love your kids but you don't always like them. You'll defend them to the death but there are times you want to beat them to death yourself. You have a favorite but you do your damnedest to treat them as much alike as you can, so that you prolly end up showing more affection to the one you like least just to be sure that you aren't slighting that one.

Lowri, grow up in public silence. Let us just assume, mistakenly or not, that you are the adult you appear to be in that chubby body and those blond locks. We are so fuqqing tired of liberals suddenly discovering theirselfs at 35, and 27, and 42, and rushing into print so the rest of the world can applaud their courage at going public. The rest of us really did go thru all this shit in our teens or early twenties, and any jolts we got later on, such as the jolt you're experiencing now, we suffered with and delighted in privately.

It ain't racism or prejudice. It's being human. You ain't never as wonderful as you thought you were, nor as awful.

[The_Elucidator]

Yeah, what the Fox said about what the Wolf said about what BB posted...

You've still not learned what the rest of us long ago learned -- you love your kids but you don't always like them. You'll defend them to the death but there are times you want to beat them to death yourself. You have a favorite but you do your damnedest to treat them as much alike as you can, so that you prolly end up showing more affection to the one you like least just to be sure that you aren't slighting that one.

Spoken like a true parent!

Every parent that has multiple kids will know what the Fox is talking about. There is a Princess, there is a "hey sport", but along with that you will have at least one that your mother cursed you with and warned you about, "Just wait until you have kids, I hope they act like you do."

[Rhino]

I know. I got distracted. Sorry.No problem. We all make that mistake sometimes. Since you were new, I wasn't sure you were aware of the restriction, so I figured it was better to be safe than sorry. No apology necessary.

[M.C.]

Well I guess it would look sort of odd, but that is her daughter, it shouldn't matter.

I'm assuming she is in Scandanavia or England where I guess mixed race couples are significantly less common than here in America, so they are probably a few years behind in their tolerance level there....

If she is in America than she needs to just open her eyes.

[PrezLeefun]

This woman is in my opinion is just dumb..... she doesnt know what call her baby. I have a word Human. Or by her name? What does the color of her skin matter. Being liberal doesnt make her smart. I personally doubt the intelligence of any liberal.

Now I can understand how she may have some confusion over what to tell her daughter or what people may think of her daughter.... she should be concerned about the kind of person she teaches her daughter to be.

If you ask me she sounds obsessed about people choosing a mate based on skin color..... GET OVER IT.

Sorry but people like this usually make me sick.

[MrSanity]

This woman strikes me as bizzare. I am white and married to a Filipino woman, and I have an 18-month old daughter. I have no "racial turmoil." My only feeling about it is harmony.

I guess racial paranoia is a liberal thing, almost exclusively.

[DesertFox]

Agreed. I married a Salvadoran woman who had two kids, both darker than I. I'm dad to them, I've raised them as my own and I love them as I do the two lily white kids I had with my first wife.

Conservatives, being adults, get past this sort of thing (if it ever arises -- in my case it never did). Liberals can't because they're adolescents who can't get over themselves.

[Timberwolf]

Speaking only as an uncle, I hear ya. My sis & bro'-in-law adopted a boy who was born in India and one of my cousins adopted a black boy. Our families are so pasty white we have to suntan to neutralize the blue, so they do tend to stand out in family photos...:D...they are loved and accepted because they ARE family. I don't understand why liberals have a problem with that. Must be intellectually challenged, or sumthin'.

[DesertFox]

why does she feel so alien?

You're too stupid to figure out that the one you lie down with has some, er, "input" to the way your brat turns out? She feels alien because her daddy was the Alien.

Stupid blond.

:rotflmbo:

[Suzie]

The mother is probably making them feel alien worrying about it this much. If a mother can't accept how her children look, no wonder the kids worry about what everyone else is thinking.

I would wager to say many people don't realize they aren't all "white" but the majority aren't. I might look white but I have Indian blood ( oh sorry "native american") on my dad's side. You probably couldn't tell by looking unless cheekbones are suspect to you.

This woman is a nut.

[Charity]

'I love my mixed race baby

There is only one race.....the human race.

[Peachdiane]

She's got big problems if she's hung up on race. I wish that were the least of my problems.

What a bitch!

[BabyBeastie]

What a bitch!You're giving her a compliment. She makes me effin' sick.

[Timberwolf]

Cute kitty, Beastie...

[BabyBeastie]

It's a real baby beastie. A baby tiger. lol

I got rid of the Barbara Boxhead boxer avatar. lol

[DesertFox]

'I love my mixed race baby--but why does she feel so alien?'

She feels so alien because you don't love her, you stupid liberal.

[Coleridge]

Interracial marriage collectively is a very dangerous thing.

[ThomasMore]

There is only one race.....the human race.

Yeah, that.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Interracial marriage collectively is a very dangerous thing.

I would say posting that is more dangerous, actually.

[dPrasse]

Into this positively Scandinavian next generation, I have now injected a tiny, dark-skinned, dark-haired girl. To say she stands out is an understatement

I have no idea why she would think the girl felt alien ???

http://www.breaktaker.com/albums/pictures/kids/AlienBaby.jpg

[Kathy30]

When people look around them, they feel most comfortable and most accepted with people who look like them. I can definitely see a dark skinned child feeling different in a family of Scandanavian blondes, no matter how loved. They will just never feel a sense of family.

Sorry to say, but that's the way it is. I know many mixed race people, and they always feel more comfortable when in the company of the side of the family they most resemble. It is humanity, not racisim.

[PrezLeefun]

^^^Thats not true. My mother is Jewish and Father is black and I definitely look more black than white but I feel far more at home and loved on my mother's side. Race isnt important.

[Timberwolf]

Gotta agree with ya, Prez...my family's as white as the driven snow. My cousin & his wife adopted a black boy (he's grown into a very handsome young man) and my sis & bro-in-law adopted a boy from India. Both feel right at home and there's no problem for any of us.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:unsmile: I have a mixed-race child. I'm proud of him, but I don't expect some kind of medal for marrying outside my race.

[Rhino]

I have a mixed up child. Two of them in fact. Does that count?