MixtKids

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

Tag: racism

I used to love Chicago….

Wow!  I guess if ever in Chicago and visiting Mother’s Night Club, beware! unsecured payday loans, instant payday loan companies Because, if you are of the “darker” persuasion, you better wear skinny jeans.  Even then, I’m not sure it will work.  You see, on Saturday, October 17, 2009 several seniors from Washington University had reservations […]

Wow! This is 2009, right?

And yet another reminder of just how much the color of one’s skin can affect their life, their future, their love.  Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish’s 8th Ward in Lousiana, recently refused to issue a marriage license to Beth Humphrey and her boyfriend, Terence McKay.  Why?  Well, he’s Black, she’s […]

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 […]