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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 66626" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>I have a boy, not a girl, so I don't know if this is any help ... but he's in a private school that is mostly white, and his contact with-a lot of AA or mixed race kids is in sports, through the city. Most of the kids he plays with-are into video games, skateboards, etc., so it's the type of shoes you have or whatnot that matters. (Drive me crazy.)</p><p>He will most certainly be rejected in re: to dating and dances because of his mixed race "status," and I'm already spitting tacks just with-the concept floating around out there.</p><p>People also look at him one way when they seem him alone ... wary but accepting, since he's a kid ... and when they see him with-husband and myself, they are 100% accepting and the wariness disappears. "Oh, he's their kid, so he's okay," they think. Carte blanche. (Excuse the double entendree.)</p><p></p><p>We have a 39% black population in our area. We see every hairstyle imaginable. A lot of girls are still into the shellac thing (eouw!) and straightening. All that peer pressure ...</p><p></p><p>I honestly don't know what to tell you. If she's that into sports, maybe you should head in that direction and let the rest play out the way fate has it planned, so to speak.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 66626, member: 3419"] I have a boy, not a girl, so I don't know if this is any help ... but he's in a private school that is mostly white, and his contact with-a lot of AA or mixed race kids is in sports, through the city. Most of the kids he plays with-are into video games, skateboards, etc., so it's the type of shoes you have or whatnot that matters. (Drive me crazy.) He will most certainly be rejected in re: to dating and dances because of his mixed race "status," and I'm already spitting tacks just with-the concept floating around out there. People also look at him one way when they seem him alone ... wary but accepting, since he's a kid ... and when they see him with-husband and myself, they are 100% accepting and the wariness disappears. "Oh, he's their kid, so he's okay," they think. Carte blanche. (Excuse the double entendree.) We have a 39% black population in our area. We see every hairstyle imaginable. A lot of girls are still into the shellac thing (eouw!) and straightening. All that peer pressure ... I honestly don't know what to tell you. If she's that into sports, maybe you should head in that direction and let the rest play out the way fate has it planned, so to speak. [/QUOTE]
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