Being One Race is Boring

Don’t be so vanilla.

Being a single race now means you’re the minority—and kind of behind the times—which now translates to you being a little bit of an outcast. Or a nerd. Or both.

I certainly recall my grade-school days, growing up in a suburban community outside of Atlanta where nearly everyone in my class was “white”. In a blue moon, there would be a “black” person, and even more rare was someone from the middle-east. (back then, it was still OK to classify someone as “oriental” without having to discuss rugs) My point is, it was easy to tell who came from where.

But now, that’s old fashioned and as the NYT reports the multi-racial population has increased almost 50 percent, to 4.2 million, since 2000, making it the fastest growing youth group in the country. The number of people of all ages who identified themselves as both white and black soared by 134 percent since 2000 to 1.8 million people.

So basically, everyone is getting busy and making rainbow babies, which is awesome. I’m not jealous of all the action happening…okay. Maybe I am just a little.

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Making her mark first as an actor, Mandy Fisher is a freelance writer and currently an editor at Momtrends and MomtrendsNYC. Her former job as an NYC preschool teacher inspired her to take on the r ...read more