This is my
son Schonbek. When I was in law school it would have
been illegal for me to marry his mother because she is
black. I couldn't legally marry a Chinese, but for some
reason I could marry a Japanese.
He was born at Johns Hopkins, arguably the most advanced
hospital in the world and yet they classified my baby as
black. Harkening to the days of slavery when blacks were
considered animals and the one drop doctrine was in
effect. The logic being that even one drop of black
blood polluted the entire future gene pool. When I
protested that they were wiping out my entire
contribution to my miracle and I didn't like it, they
responded, "what should he be called?" I
responded, "how about half black and half white, or
mixed?" There response is now official, he is
black - his birth certificate recently arrived.
Fortunately,
people change and laws change and my son now has the
racial make up to be president some day. Unfortunately
some things never change.
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