Multi- Colored Families

      The essay on "Multi-Colored Families" by Tamala Edwards is an informative article about the pros and cons of raising mulit-colored children and having integrated families in todays modern society. Edwards points out that although its great that society has evolved and adoption and intergration of multi-colored children is great. Many families tend to forget that its still a delicate situation of raising a child that is outside of your own race. As children parents are the most influential people one could have. Edwards includeds testaments of how difficult it can become for both children and parents growing together in an intergrated family. Children will always raise questiones as to why they look different from their parents and how the parent needs to be able to answer such a question carefully. Edwards shows how familys often have to chose a special type of enviroment where it is more diverse so that fingers are not pointed at their intergrated family. They can raise their children without having to deal with the rude remarks people make. The article was written to raise an awareness that people probably don't think about when they are getting ready to take on the role of the intergrated family.
      I like this essay a lot. It was like "food for thought" and sparked my interest a lot. I felt that although Edwards talked about greatly intergrated families, I was able to relate my own personal experiance to it. I am Mexican and Spanish and although these two ethnicities can seem the same or very similar to people they are two very different things to me. I never knew my biological father and as a young child that bothered me but not that much anymore. Even though I grew up having a great father figure through my "step" dad I still saw that I was different from the rest of my family. They are all tanned and dark like the people from Mexico are and I grew up really faired skinned and with really curly hair like my father's side. The skin color always threw me off as a child but I thought the Edwards made a good point. People should consider the pros and cons of the responsibilty they are going to take on when raising multi-colored children.