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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?
No. But because she is biracial, she belongs to two different cultures. One is yours. One is not. And she should be allowed and encouraged to be at home in both of those cultures.
This over-emphasis on something so insignificant as skin color is moronic and damaging.
It's only insignificant to you because you are white. That's like the woman on Park Avenue who says there's no such thing as class. It's not a naive assumption, it's a dangerous one. Please don't do your niece the disservice of pretending she is not biracial, or that her biracial status doesn't matter. While I'm sure it won't make you love her any less, it makes a big difference in how people outside your family view her, and she needs to be prepared for that. If you send her out in the world thinking that colorblindness is a reality, you will do her harm.
