Look: Co-Parenting Mixed-Race Kids Requires More Than Racial TolerancePosted in Articles, Family/Parenting, Interviews, Media Archive, United States on 2016-12-15 19:17Z by Steven |
Look: Co-Parenting Mixed-Race Kids Requires More Than Racial Tolerance
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
2016-12-15
What happens when fetishizing Black bodies results in having to raise one? An interview with Nick Harris.
It’s far from unique to see an interracial couple these days. The millennial generation is the most racially mixed to date and the U.S. Census predicts that, by the year 2044, there won’t even be a white majority. But within the larger construct of interracial love are several smaller, equally vital conversations — one of which is interracial co-parenting. What happens when an interracial couple has a child and then splits up? What issues arise?
These are questions single father Nick Harris had to come to terms with recently in a text exchange between himself and his daughter’s white mother. Nick posted a text conversation with his ex concerning his daughter’s hairstyle, which was the pretty common style of cornrows done by the child’s aunt, and the screen shots went viral. When his daughter’s mother saw a picture of the braids, she berated Harris, saying the style looked “too Black.” Harris defended his choice by reminding her that their daughter is, in fact, half Black. The exchanged escalated and went on for three pages. Once the internet caught wind of the epic text battle, the outrage sparked a heated reaction…
Read the entire interview here.