Interracial Family Organization

The Stansberrys

// October 25th, 2009 // written by Kat Robertson

AUTHOR BIO:

It’s me!!! Julie.. This is my beautiful interracial family. I am so proud to introduce them to you.

My name is Julie and I am a 52 (yikes!! am i really 52??..LOL). I have 5 children. 4 biological and 1 adopted. My oldest daughter is Nicole (29), Amber (28), Brittney (27) and my son Andre (24). My 8yr old daughter is Kashe and she is adopted. It’s crazy because all my bio children are bi-racial (black/white) and how ironic that my youngest (adopted) daughter is bi-racial (black/white) except her bio mom was black and her bio dad white. She fits into our family perfectly. She even looks like my daughters when they were her age. She is/was truly a gift from GOD as are/were all my children.

My children were actually born/raised in a very affluent part of Washington, Bellevue. It was 1981 when my family moved to Bellevue, WA and we were actually one of the first black families in our neighborhood. My husband/childrens’ father is black and I remember vividly as if it were yesterday when he would walk down the street in the wee hours of the morning several blocks to catch the Metro bus to work at Boeing. He was literally stopped numerous times by the Bellevue Police and was questioned as to what he was doing in Bellevue and where was he going??! (WTH???!)

My children actually never actually suffered due to doing being bi-racial in Bellevue. In fact, quite the contrary. It’s funny because we could not and did not go anywhere w/o being stopped by people asking us questions about our children. People were always saying how beautiful they were. We even had people ask us if we “permed” their hair as it was so long, beautiful and curly. LOL.. I remember when my oldest daughter was 3 yrs old a neighbor asked her if she was black or white. She looked so puzzled and simply said, “I’m not black, I’m not white, I am Nicole Michelle Stansberry.” LOL I guess she told them.

Well ladies another big thanks for always putting in so much time/effort into your blogs and web pages. They inspire me so!!

Take care,
Julie