Don’t you just love our new usage of the word blended since Obama was elected? We are now referring to bi-racial children as blended it’s not just for step-families any more. What happens to prejudice when the whole world becomes blended? From what they predicted on TV we are certainly headed in that direction in the future because more people are becoming color blind, they are looking at the inside instead of the outer side.
I am reminded of a German girl I once knew that lived with a black man whom she professed to love. I hadn’t seen her for a couple years then when I did we talked and I congratulated her on her pregnancy. She became very indignant and said she wasn’t pregnant just fat that she planned on keeping her race pure. I was aghast at that statement and thought she could have simply explained that she was wearing a maternity top for other reasons.
I come from a blended background with Cherokee and Irish on my Mother’s side and I really can’t say about my Father’s side because I was never really interested enough about that side to find out. I would say that the majority of people are blended to a certain degree, but not in the new usage way of the word blended as pertaining to bi-racial. I always hated the word half-breed because it was used so derogatorily.
It’s funny I don’t see Obama as black, white, or blended I simply see him as the President and in my mind he will be judged by what he gets accomplished not the color of his skin.
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