It’s really condescending for a start. You’re basically saying that if anyone ever finds us attractive, it is not because God really did put magic fairy-dust in our eyes like our Daddies said or because that 5k run this morning has left us pleasantly glowing with the joy of our own achievements. No, it’s because we’re mixed-race, that’s it.
The National Geographic recently reported that by 2050 the average American will appear to be of mixed racial origin. To “celebrate” this, they commissioned a photographer to go and take photos of a bunch of mixed-race people for us to stare at. Do you feel uncomfortable about this? Perhaps not. I do though.
All this makes me physically cringe from the screen. What are they doing? Don’t they realise the damage they’re causing by perpetuating this beautiful little brown baby bullshit? Oh! What lovely end-products of interracial social cohesion!
We’re not products. We’re people. And some people are ugly. Some people are really ugly. Some black people are ugly, some white people are ugly, some frickin Filipineseafrojafaican people are ugly. Why should the racial mixing suddenly make people beautiful? What is beautiful anyway? It’s got nothing to do with race. Saying mixed-race people are more beautiful than others is the WORST thing you can do for the mixed-race community.
Articles that fetishise mixed-race people are particularly damaging to mixed-race women. One reason is because it reminds us that we’re different.