This is part of today’s blog that I posted to my personal web site (Haydennet.com):
I watched the interview with WANNABE ARYAN PRINCESS Ann Coulter on The View yesterday, where she was promoting her venomous and predictably controversial book. She goes on and on about how biracial people in our society like our incoming president and Halle Barry "identify with the fathers who abandoned them instead of the hard-working single white mothers who raised them" (not that Ann thinks single mothers should exist at all, if you read on). Well, unmarried and barren Coulter doesn’t know squat from experience, and a lot of society doesn’t understand that no matter how HALF-WHITE my daughter is, for example, she is POLITICALLY black. That doesn’t mean she is not tremendously proud of her other heritage, which she is. There is nothing I can do about the way my daughter is categorized. Whoopi Goldberg, another parent of a biracial daughter, like me, said that her child and everyone else in society is going to be perceived as what people think them to be, not what they are. I remember years ago on Oprah this guy got up and said he was half Pacific Islander and half Persian, but everyone thought he was Latino, so he asked, "Should I identify as Latino?" That is where surnames (unfortunately) come in, perhaps, although that is hardly scientific. I am the perfect example of a surname not matching my identity, I think my 1/16th English surname has given me some privilege in America (see my blog about getting stopped by the police officer last August).