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Re: Multiracial babies - was: poop hits the fanFrom: Cheri Van Hoover (cherivh@home.com)Sun Dec 31 10:05:22 2000
Carlos Roure MD wrote:
> Anyway, throughout the Just to confuse this issue a wee bit more - or perhaps add some clarity - almost all African-Americans in the U.S. are "multi-racial." It is the history of exactly how this came to be that is part of the fuel on this very difficult social situation. Mixing between people of African ancestry and those of European ancestry began to occur as soon as the two groups encountered each other on North American soil. Because of the circumstances of arrival of most of the African people - i.e. slavery - this mixing generally occured under distinctly unloving and exploitive conditions, and was almost exclusively confined to white men and black women. The penalties for a black man even *looking* at a white woman were truly horrific. Exactly how this situation was handled varied in different parts of the country. The system of the Americans of French extraction in Louisiana was particularly interesting and, in its way, no less exploitive. Ann Rice's excellent novel, The Feast of All Saints, gives an interesting look at this demi-monde. The circumstances of the freeing of the slaves in the U.S. was not an easy or painless one for the people of this country. Much social anguish was engendered by our Civil War. Those hard feelings have still not been laid to rest in many parts of this country. Our own system of apartheid (called segregation) continued until well into my own lifetime. Throughout this process, it has been the poor and dispossessed white people (those referred to in an earlier post to this forum as "white trash") who have frequently been the most vehement in their prejudices. They felt economically threatened by poor blacks and have long felt that at least they could be proud of the fact that they were personally and socially superior to at least this one group of people. This is why the multi-racial baby of the original post was a significant psychological variable in this troubled family. Whites of the upper socio-economic strata certainly have not been immune to racial prejudice, but their tools of oppression have more frequently been instituionalized and economic. My sister's husband is African-American. My beloved nephew is multi-racial. In America, multi-racial means black. Race continues to be a very troubling issue in this country. Each part of the world has its own unique history and set of cultural problems. Human beings are notoriously flawed and illogical creatures.
-- Cheri Van Hoover, CNM San Francisco, CA
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