If you Can Make Out the Words I've Typed, your Biracial Children Will be Fine.

Kermit was about that life.

A Facebook friend, a Hispanic in her late 20's, was livid yesterday.  A coworker of hers told her that she "doesn't approve of Hispanic and Black babies."  Now, the same coworker takes no issue with Hispanic and White children, but made it a point to voice her displeasure toward her choice in partner and living, breathing (adorable!) children.  She had every right to be upset - anyone that would try to define a "proper" combination for race mixing is proving their ignorance toward the world that we live in, and the world that is approaching.  If anyone tells you that they don't "approve" of biracial families/children, or think you are placing unnecessary hurdles in front your children, it's clear they aren't going to be the movers, shakers or policy makers your children will have to interact with later down the line.

Yeah, I think the "Safe" stigma helped out a bit.

When people say "post-racial", chances are they don't know what the hell they're talking about.  But an argument can be made that the world is progressively "mixed tolerant".  Why exactly?  Who knows - this is an entertainment blog, not  (insert boring blog title here, ZING!)  so let's just throw out a few examples:

1) KINDA Black President - not a shot, but do I think  Barack Obama being a handsome, not so dark individual made him a more attractive choice than Al Sharpton?  Damn right!

2) Jessica Alba - Nerd and race motivated shit talked that I am, I didn't even think to question her playing the Invisible Woman, or being Chris Evans' sister in The Fantastic Four.  And he's so clearly white they let him be Captain America!!!

3) Today's NBA - Look at Joakim Noah, Blake Griffin, (create-a-player #1) Klay Thompson.  They are appreciated for their talents as top players, and even in barber shop circles, they aren't made out to be "too" anything, or "not enough" anything else.  And three of the best point guards of the last decade (Parker, D. Williams, and the GAWD J. Kidd) are all from mixed ethnicity.

So those in control - the voters, the people that talk with there dollars, and the American sports fans, are all tolerant, and appreciative of the portion of the population that come from mixed backgrounds.  So what does it matter if people you interact with on a lower level don't?

Nobody even blinked.  Not a soul.

At this point, it's not even "progressive" to date outside of your ethnicity, it's almost a given.  Growing up in San Antonio, Texas (nawfwest till I rest)  it's almost a given that as a person of Black/ White/ Asian/ Middle Eastern descent, you would at some point date a Hispanic person, unless you actively avoided it, because they made up most of the population.  Any person that would give you a hard time for this was old, or couldn't count, or wanted you for themselves and wouldn't verbalize that.

The bigger issue is this guy being French.

 The people in charge of hiring your children, the people that grant them admittance into college, these people don't have a bias against biracial people, because by the time your children are old enough to encounter these people, the population will have grown to be exponentially multiracial, based on a whole bunch of numbers I read so you wouldn't have to (I care.)  So let people you talk to have their opinions, even if these are things they try to pass down, it'll be awfully hard for their children to formulate such strong resentment if the people they grow up with, in the same neighborhoods, playing the same sports, wearing the same clothes and having the same interests as them.  Changing with the times isn't for everyone.  Lucky for us, time tends to change without their approval.