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I read this article and read many of the letters posted. I do have a question over a point that confuses me.
I am white, as is most of my family. I say most, because I do have a bi-racial niece. She is gorgeous, smart and it's a much better world with her in it.
My niece has always lived with her mother, my sister, and her African-American father has been in and out of her life. (It is a family dynamic that I hope will work itself out.)
Because my niece is bi-racial, should she leave her white mother and all of us who love her and live with her father's family? (Her father does not wish to have a child to care for.) It seems to me many think so. Does my niece's half-black state override her white half in importance? Can't she be who she is and not be labeled and categorized?
This over-emphasis on something so insignificant as skin color is moronic and damaging. Don't call me naive. I know the world we live in, and it will remain so as long as people give in to this stupidity.
