Today is a PROUD day for mixed race people.

[Tryharder]

Barack...
Lewis...

I feel that today is a sort of monumentous day for mixed race kids. I've had Sky News on all day and every time I think about Barack, I want to cheer! I actually cried when I saw Jesse Jackson crying. I tried to get the point across to DS1 aged 4 how important today was for him and his brother but he started whining and asking couldn't we put Milkshake on instead of the news.

[sigh]

I did my best to explain it to my mixed-race DSs aged 6 and 4. They were mildly interested.
I hope Barack's an inspiration to them.

I looked at my son and felt incredibly hopeful for him as a young mixed race person. Truly a great time to be mixed.

Can I ask genuinely, why you feel like that, after making a conscious decision to have mixed race children? If that was the only reason that you could make your children feel proud or if you felt that your children could not somehow be equal? Why did you mix race then? I really am not being nasty but fail to see why the election of the US president makes any difference to mixed race child here.

children - sorry

I'm astounded that you cannot see the significance of this@Gingham. Maybe someone with more patience will come along and explain it to you. I can't be arsed.

gingham i am astounded as well.. don't you know people fall in love and have children....

Gingham are you of this century - make a conscious descion to have mixed race children!
I fell in love got married and we decided to have children.
Not once in the equation did the colour of our skins come into any of our descion making.

Are you insane or just rather stupid Gingham?

Tryharder,it is wonderful isn't it?
When the day comes that even an adult shrugs and wants to change channels (like your kids) we will know that we have reached the stage where race really is irrelevant.

I spent a huge chunk of last w/end watching Obama speeches on Youtube. My ds kept briniging me handfuls of looroll to wipe away my tears!

Sorry I forgot this, but I did wonder why people don't think their children are special, no matter what and don't need to worry about what colour the president of the US is. It worries me that people who are black in this country see this as the only good thing that has happened to them ever. IYKWIM. I wish it were different to be honest.

Of course parents think their children are special.

Some people don't share that view.

wow Gingham am really can't understand your way of thinking. Why don't you do some reading around on black history and the struggles black and mixed race people have gone through in countries like USA and UK. For a mixed race man to be elected to being the President of USA this is monumental because of the history which precedes it.

I'm sure many people felt the same pride at Margaret Thatcher being elected PM because of the history of sufferage of women in this country. Can you even relate to that?

I can't believe this needs explaining to you!

When my ds was younger he asked me why there were no mixed race super heroes so the fact that there is a mixed race american president now is amazing.

Looks like Gingham has proved the stereotype of BNP types being thickos!

Here's a challenge for Gingham: there was once a BNP chap who also had criminal tendencies which landed him in prison. While there he was placed among a group of black prisoners. Spending time getting to know them totally changed his beliefs about colour.

Gingham: I challenge you to dedicate one month of your life to spending time with, and getting to know a groups of brown-skinned people. Then come back and tell us what you've discovered.

Ditto that, Hoochie!

It never ceases to amaze me that people like Gingham obsess about where non-white people 'come from' but haven't a clue about where their own roots lie, i.e. they stem from the Romans, Germans (aka the good old 'British' Celts), Vikings, Normans) - to name but a few. So much for pure-blooded Brits, huh?

Or that black people first came here with the Romans 2000 years ago. Or that the first humans originated in...in...(let's see whether Gingham knows the answer).