"I'm Biracial & That Cheerios Ad Is a Big Fucking Deal," ALSO "10 Reasons It's Best Commercial Ever"

[maddiemom]

105. I grew up in an era where some of the straight-laced Protestant parents

were uptight about their kids dating a (gasp) Catholic. On the other hand, I dated a guy whose Mom was upset that I wasn't a "good Catholic girl." Dating someone who was Jewish was heart attack inducing. Fortunately my family had already been screwed up multi-religion-wise for a couple of generations. Both my parents were (non-practicing) Protestants, so the subject was never an issue at home. I married a fallen-away Catholic whose wonderful parents accepted me happily. When our daughter became uncomfortable not "having a church" when she entered school, we let her do the whole Catholic thing because church with her paternal grandparents was the only one she knew. By high school, she'd blown it off, except for Midnight Mass on Christmas. For HER generation it's a racial thing. One of her friends, growing up, had a white mom, black dad; another an Asian mom, white dad. Race was never an issue at our home, and she's dated inter-racially. So the beat goes on. Hopefully the generation coming up now will have solved the racial thing to a large extent.