Reply #118: Marry interracially... I agree

[JuniperLea]

I said the same thing elsewhere and was told how ignorant I was, how I'd miss blue eyes, etc.

Bull.

I am Irish, and I have cousins who are Irish & Black, and Irish & American Indian. When I was a kid, growing up in Southern California, we worshiped "brown" skin. Having a bitchen tan was sometimes our only goal. I envied my Black and American Indian cousins... their skin was the perfect color... and they didn't have the cursed freckles the rest of us were plagued with. And the beautiful bone structure! I hated my round Irish face.

I'm hoping these are lessons we all need to learn, and that we, by virtue of open discussions such as these, are learning the necessary lessons.

When my daughter was very young, she loved to participate in Latino Days, Black History Month, Filipino Day, etc., in her school. She loved hearing about other cultures, eating different foods, seeing different ways to dress. She realized on the last day of school in third grade, that there was no Irish Day... no Swedish Day... she was crushed. She had celebrated everyone else's heritage, and no one paid a bit of attention to her. She hadn't been bigoted a day in her life. She hadn't owned slaves. She never hurt a soul, literally or figuratively. It was a sad summer. All I could do was try to keep her from being bitter.

Humans are so stupid. Stupidity comes in all colors.