Interracial Family Organization

A Day in the Life of Interracial Families

// November 16th, 2009 // written by Jennifer Morris

AUTHOR BIO:

Jennifer Morris is the wife of Antonio Morris. She has two children who are Sudanese and white. Jennifer blogs at Livin W/ Purpose!

I recently blogged about people staring at us and I kept saying, “What are they staring at???” My little girl told me to get over it because they do it all the time.

It’s true – in the south, it’s a huge issue. We get stared at everywhere … and yes when you’re eating, it’s the worst!

Here is an e-mail I recently received from a friend in Mississippi:

“A couple years ago I worked at a liquor store owned by an Indian man. One day he had me run to wal-mart to pick up some things for the store. His daughter, who was about 7 years old, wanted to go with me.

So I’m walking through the store and I notice ppl giving me these looks. They’re looking at me like I’m licking a dirty diaper or something. I mean they look absolutely disgusted. I’m glancing at my clothes and stuff, wondering if maybe I got something in my teeth or hanging out my nose.

I’m going crazy wondering what is wrong with me. Then all the sudden it hit me like a ton of bricks. They thought that girl was my daughter!

It gave me a little insight into what families like yours go through. It was pretty amazing.”

Finally… someone who is able to corroborate what interracial families say all the time – since no one sees life the way we see it, people tend to believe we blow it out of proportion.

We don’t.

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