Snips from article below.
"Berry, who faced her own set of anonymous accusations, mostly implying that she's unstable, is already on the record as saying she regards her daughter to be black, just as Berry identifies as black, even though her mother is white. "I feel she's black," she tells Ebony magazine in the current issue. "I'm black and I'm her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory."
"The one-drop theory — a Jim Crow–era classification that labeled anyone with one drop of African American blood in their family history as black — is a thesis that few regard as the noblest piece of thinking in the history of race relations in America."
"Sometimes multiracial people don't know how they fit in, so they have trouble within themselves," says Davis. "We think parental support is important to developing healthy racial identity. So, really, the courts are looking at the parent who is going to foster racial health. That's where [race] is going to come up."
Should Race Play a Role in Custody Decisions? – TIME Healthland
No comments:
Post a Comment