MixtKids

One Mom's journey to raise empowered mixed-race children

Category: Diversity (general)

A racist. A sexist. An idiot. Chip Bok.

The Oklahoman ran an editorial cartoon by Chip Bok of Creators Syndicate. Remember, this was the guy that left the Akron Beacon Journal after the conclusion to last year’s Presidential election.  Apparently his right wing bashing of Obama backfired and left him on the “buyout” table.  Given his latest cartoon in the Oklahoman, he’s gone […]

OK, when I first heard about this story, I thought it was a hoax. Seriously, I thought it was some over sensitive twitter fool, spreading nonsense. NOW, I’m flabbergasted! “When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool,” Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote […]

Children’ Book Review – Elena’s Serenade [Ages 4-8]

Elena’s Serenade, Campbell Geeslin Illustrated by Ana Juan Atheneum Books for Young Readers. 2004. Ages 4-8 PJ and I read this book last night.  We borrowed it from our local library.  I thought I’d share my review with the Mixtkids community.  Hope you find it useful. “In Mexico, there’s a little girl, Elena, the daughter […]