Treatment Towards Biracial Children
"'Jem,' I asked,' what's a mixed child?'
Half-white, half-colored. You've seen em, Scout. You know that red-kinky-headed one that delivers for the drugstore. He's half-white. They're real sad.'
Sad, how come?'
They don't belong anywhere. Colored folks won't have em because they're half-white; white folks won't have em cause they're colored, so they're just in-betweens, don't belong anywhere." (To Kill a Mockingbird, page 161)
Everyone has heard the quote," All men are created equal." That has not stopped the discrimination against any group of people right up to this very moment. The group of people that is treated most unequally is made up of biracial children and teens. Whether the treatment is from parents, peers, and other adults such as teachers, this can have detrimental effects on a person's psyche.
When you are a kid, whether you're Caucasian, Asian, Mestizo or Afroindipean, your number one hero is your mother or father. As hard as it is to comprehend, parents aren't always right. Quite a few parents, raising biracial children or not, choose to believe that if you ignore a certain problem, it will go away. Even if the parent or parents ignore it and feel that it is no longer an issue, the child will still have to face these tribulations. "One of the first things you need to understand when parenting multiracial children is the insidious effects of racism. Racism leaves marks that last a lifetime. "(Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?, page 153). One of the best ways to learn is to experience.
Every parent in the world wants to protect their children from all the things that harm. Words like half-breed, Oreo, Mexicoon, Niganese, and Rice Cracker are what children from interracial relationships have to face. It is simply unfair that multiracial children have to adapt to living in such a negative world. Racism has taken root in our society from the beginning of our country's birth and has not yet,...
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