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07/13/2007: "Mixed-race daughter is a shocker"

One reason for my fear is my own mixed reactions to my daughter. Don’t get me wrong, I love her. She is the child I didn’t think I’d have after my first marriage broke up. She is the only granddaughter in our family and we all dote on her.

But when I turn to the mirror in my bedroom to admire us together, I am shocked. She seems so alien. With her long, dark eyelashes and shiny, dark brown hair, she doesn’t look anything like me.

Evolution demands that we have children to pass on our genes, hence the sense of pride and validation we get when we see our features reappearing in the next generation.

With my daughter, I don’t have that. Do black fathers who marry white women and then have paler-skinned children feel my sense of loss?

[ Multiculturalism doesn't work. ]

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/07/i_love_my_mixed.php