These comments not only disturbed but puzzled me. In their antagonism towards these mothers, Camper and S.R.W. almost seem to be joining forces with the White Supremacists, who have always decried White women who bear children of colour. Another problem with the automatic suspicion of White women of mixed race children as child abusers lies in the fact that the same logic could be applied to other mothers of interracial children. By the same token as Camper's notion that colonialism may affect a White woman's parenting of a Black child, one might ask whether an Arab woman would be likely to abuse a half-Filipino child, especially a girl, in light of the brutality experienced by many Filipina domestic workers in the Middle East at the hands of their female employers. Camper's suggestion that racism poses delicate issues in parent-child relationships in my opinion deserves to be taken more seriously than S.R.W.'s accusations against the White usher.
Whites do hold more power in society than people of colour.
In addition, White mothers can never understand the discrimination that their mixed race sons and daughters may face. But as studies on interracial families and transracial adoption show, White women are as capable of parenting such children as are women of colour. It also provides a rare Canadian perspective on mixed race people, as many of the contributors were born or currently live in Canada. The book has some limitations. For instance, given that it is written by women, the experiences described may not reflect those of mixed race men.