http://mrbellersneighborhood.com/2008/02/brookti-me-3-years-on Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:15:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mrbellersneighborhood.com/2008/02/brookti-me-3-years-on/comment-page-1#comment-171618 yola Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:10:14 +0000 #comment-171618 though the woman's actions were inappropriate, her stance does not make her a racist. she doesn't have any problem with you having an african child but you should raise that child to love her natural self. that's like me buying my daughter breast cutlets or allowing her to put a tattoo on her forehead because she's kicking and screaming over it (do you discipline her at all or does she run the show in your house?). i rather raise my daughter to love who she is naturally as in what God and nature gave her rather than let her grow attached to something that will only confuse her in the long run. and who buys a five year old a wig? unless she has leukemia or something i don't see why that in itself would be an appropriate gift for a child. I think any person from any racial background would find how your taking this situation a bit problematic and the fact that we have a black president has nothing to do with your inability to embrace your child's natural attributes and beautiful features. I don't want you to take my response as hostile but as a Haitian girl who was adopted by a loving caucasian family, i would have resented my mother if she paraded me around the house in a blond wig and she would find offense if one of her friends had given her such a thing. I think this is something you wouldn't begin to be able to empathize with until your daughter comes home crying why her hair isn't blonde and her eyes aren't blue like the other girls at school. And i hope your solution to that wouldn't be to pop the blonde wig on her head and blue contacts in her eyes. though the woman’s actions were inappropriate, her stance does not make her a racist. she doesn’t have any problem with you having an african child but you should raise that child to love her natural self. that’s like me buying my daughter breast cutlets or allowing her to put a tattoo on her forehead because she’s kicking and screaming over it (do you discipline her at all or does she run the show in your house?).
i rather raise my daughter to love who she is naturally as in what God and nature gave her rather than let her grow attached to something that will only confuse her in the long run. and who buys a five year old a wig? unless she has leukemia or something i don’t see why that in itself would be an appropriate gift for a child.
I think any person from any racial background would find how your taking this situation a bit problematic and the fact that we have a black president has nothing to do with your inability to embrace your child’s natural attributes and beautiful features. I don’t want you to take my response as hostile but as a Haitian girl who was adopted by a loving caucasian family, i would have resented my mother if she paraded me around the house in a blond wig and she would find offense if one of her friends had given her such a thing. I think this is something you wouldn’t begin to be able to empathize with until your daughter comes home crying why her hair isn’t blonde and her eyes aren’t blue like the other girls at school. And i hope your solution to that wouldn’t be to pop the blonde wig on her head and blue contacts in her eyes.

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