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<blockquote data-quote="wldinnh" data-source="post: 51746" data-attributes="member: 3763"><p>My significant other is black and I'm white and he has a young son from a previous very brief relationship with a white woman. I consider this sweet boy my "step son" as he has been in my life since he was very young and lives with us several days out of the week. It seems the advice you read is racist in many ways: assumes all blacks are into the hip-hop culture, don't value a college education and are a culture to fear will harm your son in some way. My significant other is a college graduate, from a loving and kind middle-class background and he hates the hip-hop culture, and is one of the most "old school" people I know in many ways. Your grandson can only benefit from being exposed to black people as the older he gets the more he will be exposed to racisim as society begins to view him not as the adorable little bi-racial kid but as a black teen and a black man. Black friends/mentors will be able to "show him the way" so to speak in navagating a society that still discriminates in many ways. There must be a predominantly black church near you. Perhaps you could go talk to the minister and ask his/her advice for incorporating more black people into your grandson's life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wldinnh, post: 51746, member: 3763"] My significant other is black and I'm white and he has a young son from a previous very brief relationship with a white woman. I consider this sweet boy my "step son" as he has been in my life since he was very young and lives with us several days out of the week. It seems the advice you read is racist in many ways: assumes all blacks are into the hip-hop culture, don't value a college education and are a culture to fear will harm your son in some way. My significant other is a college graduate, from a loving and kind middle-class background and he hates the hip-hop culture, and is one of the most "old school" people I know in many ways. Your grandson can only benefit from being exposed to black people as the older he gets the more he will be exposed to racisim as society begins to view him not as the adorable little bi-racial kid but as a black teen and a black man. Black friends/mentors will be able to "show him the way" so to speak in navagating a society that still discriminates in many ways. There must be a predominantly black church near you. Perhaps you could go talk to the minister and ask his/her advice for incorporating more black people into your grandson's life. [/QUOTE]
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