My son thinks I'm black...?
405647
he's joking with you.
1074988
sounds like a normal boy.  I bet he thinks youre stupid to.
790941
Try researching your genealogy. It may prove to be a difficult task and you may never find out. Just be comfortable with being a human being and do not worry about the percentage of other races that made you up. You are a child of the universe like everyone else. You have a right to be here.
204378
Try this, misspell your Kid's name and see if anyone notices.  I bet his boy friends like the missspelling. Good Luck!
714388
I think Michael Jackson asked one before.\n\n"why am I born black and male ?"
903279
Thats so nice of you to teach your children right. First of all you need to tell them for ALL of those question they need to know not all black people are like that. Just the "ghetto" ones I suppose. Iam certainly not like that neither are my family memebers. I don't even like chicken! Some black people use the N word because they are idiots and ignorant, I would never say the N word to me it is hurtful no matter who it comes from. I suggest you just tell your children that is just how some black people are...
190128
what is wrong with black???  are we racist?????
658057
nickelodeon05, this is for you:\nYou obviously feel strongly about your race and racism. I understand you feeling the way you do, but look at it this way. You(you in general) call white people profound racial names such as cracker and honkey, but when a white person slips the forbidden N word out into the open, that person and everyone they're talking to is "gonna get popped". You said that an African American only calls a white person racist when he or she feels that they are being racist, but you forgot to mention that because of the past, you feel even a slight look into your eyes is a racial remark towards you. You said your youth wasn't alive when Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X were alive, but you ALSO weren't alive way back when there was enslaving and brutality to your race. It's funny how people only act by the bad things and not the good. Look what you fought for, are you showing respect for what you got, equality, by trying to push yourselves higher in the food chain by pulling guilt trips on white people? I know many intellegent African Americans who have gotten over the whole "you're white and I'm black so that means you're racist" thing. And what would you have done if some black thug kids started threatening your children in such a manor that it bothered you enough to say something? Honestly, Put yourself in someone else's shoes before you go discriminating against someone who just acted upon their instincts of protecting their children. \n\nI'm friends with a lot of skinheads, but I'm also friends with a lot of African Americans. I see the view point from both sides, and it's just a big stupid misunderstanding. When people start threatening small children, then that's just going too low. I have no idea why teens are going back to the ghetto and wanting to be thugs again. Their motives are not usually the best, and these kids just don't understand much about anything. Ignorance is the start of all wars.
814189
Absolutely - go into that school and read them the riot act.\n\nYour son, in my opinion, was quite right in his comment - judging someone on any aspect of their appearance does equate to racism.\n\nThe school, and the teacher, have behaved badly. He's your child, your responsibility and you shouldn't stand for it.\n\nIn my experience, teachers are NOT always right, in spite of what they might think.
699587
Because you wanted to be a particular person, it was not racist of you.  If one wants to be Michael Jackson, they are not being racist.  The fact that Dr. Dre or Michael Jackson are black is a side issue, just a coincidence.  Your focus was on being one particular person.  Even a black guy or woman who wanted to be Dr. Dre would have had to wear a costime, right?  Your coloring your skin was necessary to convey the persona.....  That's what you should tell him...   If you can, have a bunch of friends, of any race, sign a form stating that they were not offended, that they know you, and never think you might be racist.
370246
Don't jump to conclusions that your mom cheated or that you were adopted.  While this may or may not be true, it is very likely that both your parents are your biological parents. These types of things DO happen.  There is an interesting video series called ANSWERS IN GENESIS, and there are also genetic studies being done now to show that it is entirely possible to have a different skin color than your parents.  Scientists are actually now finding that there are more genetic differences between two individual people of the same race than there are between two races, even two races as stereotypically different as white and black.  Anyone who opens their eyes long enough can see that white and black people are more similar than they are different, even genetically speaking.
865229
You just told it. Tell it to your son that way. It's better when it come from the way you remember it. \nI'm wondering how old your son is that you still have such a tight relationship. Just don't smother him, or one day it will be too much for him. \nLove but let live, too.
334587
Are you a racist?\nNot...dam, what's the word...Inferring anything about you, just wondering.\n\nProbably just as many as white fathers and Latin American Fathers.
546543
Supposedly (according to the Montel Williams show) it is possible, but I've never seen it happen.\n\nMy son's father is very dark, I am sort of medium olive-skinned, and my son is about the same shade as my light-skinned black roommate, whose parents are both much darker than she is. \n\nIn my experience, children will often turn out to be LIGHTER-skinned than their parents, but almost never darker. I am a prime example of this. I do know a few individuals who have children that are marginally darker than their parents, but never a biracial kid.
998315
It all boils down to values & upbringing, isn't it? Your guy has a point which is the conventional approach that kids should look up to parents NOT as equals which explains why he finds it disrespectful that your son calls you by your first name.\nHowever, as I understand it, you're a rather liberal person hence your ID "hippie mama," lol find it's not so much of a big deal. Though as long as your son is being respectful in other aspects in life i.e. he doesn't speak rudely of you in the presence of others or is well-behaved, it shouldn't be a problem. It's your call.
764127
people think they are better than I am because of my skin color.
888481
Loaded question: Sounds like you yourself are glad that you are not black or Asian. Sounds like you are nice little bigot.