Review: A tragic story, well-written, but makes a mountain out of a molehill
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
I fail to see the problem. If she is blonde and looks white, then she can call herself white. If she's got black features, then she can call herself black. Since she is a mixture, she can choose whatever she wants to be. If she wants to be white because she LOOKS white, then let her be white! If she doesn't want to claim either, then just say "I'm American" and ditch the white/black color issue completely. My mother was German, my father was French. I am simply a mixture, and I can be whichever I want, and I happen to be "American." I never have referred to myself as "white" because I'm NOT "white" like a ghost, I'm beige or pink. But nothing makes me more angry than to be told that someone is either "white" or "black"...they are simply "George" or "Jane", their skin color is not relevant to who they are! WHY point out their VISIBLE skin color that anyone can see? And why mention it to a blind person at all? That's insane...but newspapers do it all the time (though I have never seen them refer to brown, yellow or red skin colors, only black, and never white). The "history" of parents does not matter, only the country where you are born has any importance whatsoever. If you look like a duck, you're a duck. If you look like a swan, you're a swan. If you were born in Africa you're African, no matter what color you are. Simple concept, why complicate what doesn't need to be complex at all?In fact, only someone who is intolerant to the skin color of others will vote this review down.