Comments on Quiskaeya: I See in Color

This post makes me grin because I think about the ...

2010-11-03T07:23:09.613-04:00

This post makes me grin because I think about the fact that my youngest son use to think that my sister and I were white and that my other siblings were black. I thought of myself and his brothers as black as well. Now he understands that there is a spectrum of black people colors.

Peace, Love and Chocolate
Tiffany

I remember a gospel song titled, Love Has No Color...

2010-10-28T11:39:30.159-04:00

I remember a gospel song titled, Love Has No Color. I think about the words to it often and my prayer is that as I see in color, I will see with the eyes of God and love all colors. GREAT post!

I remember teaching a college english class, and o...

2010-10-27T10:48:29.199-04:00

I remember teaching a college english class, and one of the students told me she was biracial, but that people assume she's white--this made me acutely aware of the limbo she was in, that transition between "one of us" and "one of them" and the struggle with the "I don't mean you" comments.

I respect your honesty. So many people say they &q...

2010-10-26T23:24:04.008-04:00

I respect your honesty. So many people say they "don't see color" I don't really get it.
It's really interesting how one event from your childhood stayed with you and influenced you into the future.
Similar to you and Mrs. K, I also had one of my H.S. friends tell me that none of the black girls at her college are like me. I think it's great that you are very conscious of how you are raising your children. I have seen that video and there's a similar video taken in the 70's that had the same results. Very thought provoking. It takes a lot of effort to make children of color proud of their culture because they are bombarded with the dominant culture.

Great post! It is very difficult dealing with peop...

2010-10-26T19:43:32.097-04:00

Great post! It is very difficult dealing with people who are so ignorant. I try my best to try to inform people while at the same time keeping my cool. It is something becomes harder and harder to deal with as I get older.

I really like this post! I wrote about something ...

2010-10-26T18:20:30.096-04:00

I really like this post! I wrote about something similar a few weeks back and it's great to see that there are other people in the same boat. Yes, I've been subjected to "you're not like the others" comments also and it is embarrassing. You feel stuck because you don't want to "go off" and perpetuate a stereotype but then you feel bad for not saying anything. I hope that by my actions ppl will have less negative views toward blacks but if they separate me from my own people, how could I be that example?
Great that you are raising your kids to be prepared for the real world.

I'm white with a dark-skinned Filipino husband...

2010-10-26T14:35:46.056-04:00

I'm white with a dark-skinned Filipino husband and a Jamican-Canadian child. I have stood WITH my husband while people talk about Asians and then look at M and say exactly what you said that "well not you M." ... One woman told me that Filipinos have a LOCK on the hospital jobs not knowing my husband was Filipino. I "pass through society as a white woman" and hear everything people have to say about "blacks, asians etc esp if they don't know my family makeup. I realize more and more how important it is that my son have constant access to his birthfamily because they live the black experience every single day and we do not. he is already drawn to black children. He notices the difference for sure. While neither myhusband nor I are black, I can see that the very fact of M's skin colour being the same hue as my son's is going to really help in the future.