Biracial Twins

This is a story I found really interesting, and pertains what we were discussing today in regards to Birdie and Cole, and also about biracial twins having contrasting skin colors. This is a story about a biracial couple who had twins, and one of the twins looked "black" while the other twin looked "white" After their first set of twins, they had another set, and the same thing happened again! There are a few points I wanted to make about the article. The first is that in the article, they describe one of the twin girls as being white, and the other twin being black. I had a problem with the way they worded it because they were we dismissing the fact that these twins are mixed race; one is not white and the other is not black, they are both biracial. This goes to show how society categorizes people right of the bat, simply based on their skin color. It would have been far more politically correct for this article to say that one girl LOOKS white, or one of the girls has darker skin, or something like that, instead of automatically categorizing them off the bat. The this is reflective of the way our society thinks, and how people automatically feel the need to place people in a category in their minds. The other is that this article points out how many people have a problem categorizing or identifying people of a mixed race. Instead of acknowledging that they are mixed race, they had to place them as one or the other, and that placement was solely based on how dark or light their skin is. I think this article represents a glimpse into the future for these children, and how biracial people can have a hard time with their ethnic identity, due to outside influences in society. Post 19, Brigit May