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• Another Hospital Baby Mix-Up, Now With Added Racism!

  Despite all the modern technology that's meant to keep newborns from being given to the wrong parents in the hospital, there seems to be a rash of inadvertent baby swaps going on. The latest took place in New Hampshire, at the Portsmouth Regional Hospital, late last month. And the parents of the newborn in question -- a baby girl who was handed to the wrong mother for either five minutes (according to the hospital) or significantly longer (according to her parents) -- are hopping mad. I can see being upset -- I'd be upset, too! -- but why are they so mad they feel "physically sick"?  Read More... Posted Apr 06 2009, 10:01 AM by Kate Tuttle with | with 29 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, newborn, baby, racism, parents, breastfeeding, maternity, Race, Mistaken Identity, breastfeed, biracial, black, mix-up

• Babble Talk – The Color Blind Kid

  I'm not one of the people who thinks that racism is over now that Barack Obama is President. (Call me when Black people can hail a cab in Manhattan.) That said, I do think that it's fair to hope that future generations will be less inclined to judge others by the color of their skin. This quote from Kids Say The Cutest Things illustrates this point: Read More... Posted Feb 10 2009, 02:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: kids, racism, parents, dads, moms, barack obama, babble talk, Brett Singer, black, white, kidspeak, kids say the cutest things, kid quote of the day, racism is not over until black people can hail a cab in manhattan, taxis

• Does Obama's Election Mean Black Kids Now Have "No Excuses"?

  Op-ed contributor Charles Blow, writing in the New York Times, recently assailed comments by South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn that, in a post-Obama age, "every child has lost every excuse." In other words, if a blak man can become president, you -- black child, Latino child, poor child -- can scale every mountain, too. I can see what Clyburn meant, that his aim was to both exhort and inspire (and he spoke these words at a BET event, which I think is significant), but Blow's right: "no excuses" is a vast overstatement of how even the playing field now is.  Besides, it didn't seem to me as if having a President Bush in office prompted academically sub-par rich white kids to stop making excuses.  Read More... Posted Jan 26 2009, 11:00 AM by Kate Tuttle with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: poverty, abuse, Race, neglect, black, black families, Latino, james clyburn, black children, charles blow

• Does Quoting Steve Martin's The Jerk Make This Politician a Racist?

  By all accounts, Paul Pugmire might be a jerk. But a racist? I'll let you be the judge. The Salt Lake City Utah City Council candidate quoted Steve Martin's classic The Jerk on the Website reunion.com early in 2006 - not in campaign-related literature. Pugmire, who is white, began an introduction to his old classmates "I was born a poor black child in Mississippi. No wait, that it something else. Quick summary since HS . . . " Read More... Posted Oct 08 2008, 08:30 AM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: racism, Republican, prejudice, comedy, clueless, democrat, reunion, Jeanne Sager, black, white, Steve Martin, funniest movies, Forrest Gump, Salt Lake City, Paul Pugmire, The Jerk

• Twins Born with Different Skin Colors

  On July 11, a German couple found out what it feels like to be the "one" of one in a million odds. Florence Addo-Gerth, an African American woman from Ghana, gave birth to twin boys with strikingly different features: Ryan has blue eyes and light skin, like his father Stephan Gerth, while Leo has brown eyes and dark skin, like his mother. Check out a video of the adorable babies and proud parents... Read More... Posted Jul 21 2008, 03:20 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: twins, Ghana, mixed race couple, genetic coding, biracial, light skin, skin colr, black twin, white twin, dark skin, one in a million, black, florence addo-gerth, white, german couple