I just can’t believe that someone would write such a blatantly racist article, about how short her husband is, how “rough” the Spanish is, a reminder that her daughter is also have white “thank you very much”, etc. I’m absolutely shocked that she is worried about her daughter losing her “white privilege” by being a multi-racial child.

Lately I’ve been exploring my identity as a bilingual Spanish learner who was raised by a racist mother, and some of the severe psychological damage that it has caused me throughout my life. It’s taken me until just recently to sort all of these identity issues out. I am almost positive that the child of the author is going to sooner or later pick up on her mothers disdain for her father’s language and culture, and the child will internalize it in a negative way.

Will she grow up in conflict, thinking that there is something wrong with her? Will she grow up hating herself and her culture? Or, will she grow up recognizing her mother for who she is and feel a sense of anguish that her mother disdains a piece of her? I pretty much feel very sorry for the child.

I am a white woman who has a Latino significant other-we have been in the same situations in Los Angeles where we have been pulled over by the police because he has a bald head and tattoos. Am I going to lament that my poor half-Latino children might be subjected to racism, while possibly losing their status as half-white children? No, I am going to raise them to be proud of who they are and recognize that other people have a problem, not them.

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