*Tamera Mowry-Housley is married to a white man, Adam Housley, and they have a child together. If you have a problem with that, get over it.
The new mommy tells Sister2Sister magazine that she knows she needs thicker skin, but it still hurts her when people say ignorant things about her baby and her husband.
“When people say ignorant things about Aden‘s race or my marriage with his daddy Adam, it’s easy for me to take it personally – even after all this time; my skin isn’t that thick!” Tamera said in blog. “But hearing your stories about your own beautiful, mixed race babies and the love you have for their fathers grounds me back to reality and reminds me of the truth: Skin color has NOTHING to do with love.”
Tamera says she plans on raising a good man who will be in touch with every aspect of his background.
i hope she’s colorblind her ownfather is white.she herself is a mixed race baby
I’m a creature from the turbulent sixties and honestly admit my first visceral reaction to a story like this is revulsion due to my intense research on racism and oppression in Africa and South America. HOWEVER, if I really search the depths of my soul, knowledge and faith, I must realize that the young man pictured above with this beautiful young lady had absolutely nothing to do with our slavery past. As long as they’re happy it ain’t none-of-my damn business! If I want to retaliate for the imhumane treatment my ancestors faced during slavery, I should dust off my shovel and head for the nearest lily-white graveyard. Fanteeking, Ghana, West Africa
I personally don’t have a problem with interracial dating, however, I do have a problem with the individuals denouncing their race just to be inclusive with the race they are dating or with. I am a proud black man and it’s evident when you see me. I don’t practice nor preach bigotry – but it burns my azz when I see a black person with a another race and they look at their own race as beneath them or won’t acknowledge their own kind. I get a little frazzled! I think to myself what an ignorant fool to forget what their grandparent – uncles – aunts and other relatives had to endure for them to have the life they have at the present. I live in San Diego, and let me tell you. The black people here are so far up in smelling white people’s azz’s it’s sickening. I have lot’s of friends of different races – but you can best believe I know where I stand. The world is going to judge me differently than them – regardless of my income – where I reside – college degree and on my appearance. Don’t get it twisted! If people think racism is alive and well – they should have been here in San Diego when the Christopher Dorner manhunt was taking place. I have never in my life been looked at – stared-down and whispered about in my entire life on this planet! Just saying here – you can love who you want to love – but don’t you dare think that things are EQUAL FOR YOU you because you love someone of a different race – NOT!
timmdogg: I hear where you coming from. I’m collaborating with a middle-aged, black (small b) doctoral student who is a master at distancing herself from her African heritage. I’ve heard every argument imaginable about why we shouldn’t be connected to Africa and how we’re Europeans as well or how adopting African names is economically debilitating or how ALL Africans hate us. She’s named both of her bi-racial kids with Dutch middle-names and she’s so proud. Back in the day, I used to argue and debate this type of ignorance, BUT you know what I ain’t got the time now. If they’re that old and stupid notwithstanding getting a doctorate in whatever then let them continue to kick the can down the road until they cut their toe and die of gangrene. LOL! LOL! LOL! Fanteeking
I am not sure of what it feels like to “color blind”.
When I look in the mirror I see color. When I look at friends / colleagues / others… I see color!
When I watched Tamera’s wedding shower… I saw All-White except for Her, Tia, and the cousin. It struck me as odd!
Mrs. “Color Blind” did not have even ONE friend that had a skin tone like hers at her Bridal Shower.
I changed the channel… and I knew that I likely wwouldn’t watch story lines that focus on her.
** shrugs **
Basing your opinion of Tamera on a TV show? UM…the show didn’t show the wedding. It showed the bridesmaids…and there were two black girls besides Tamera, an Egyptian an Asian and two white girls. How is that odd? Get a freaking life. I was there. ALL COLORS were represented. Geeze….too many dang people judging.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH TIMMDOGG AND LADYELLE. PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY IT DOESN’T MATTER ABOUT COLOR BUT IN THE PROCESS SPEND ALL THEIR TIME DISOWNING THEIR OWN. LADYELLE I NOTICED THE SAME THING ABOUT TAMERA’S WEDDING AND I KNEW THE ONLY BLACK BRIDES MAID WAS A COUSIN. COLOR SHOULDN’T MATTER BUT ACTING LIKE YOUR TOO GOOD TO HAVE BLACK FRIENDS SHOULD. LOVE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SKIN COLOR IS TRUE BUT WHEN YOU MET THIS PERSON YOU WERE NOT IN LOVE BUT MADE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE TO DATE OUT OF YOUR RACE THE SAME WAY YOU COULD HAVE CHOSEN TO DATE SOMEONE OF YOUR RACE.
Amen….You said it all. Thanks for getting your point across.
TimmDogg, you summed it all up!!! I really cringed when these black/bi-racial folk say they are color blind. How can you be color blind when you are a person of color? It doesn’t make any sense to me. I call it denial.
He looks likes Uncle Fester.
^^^^ I agree 100%!
Timmdogg- I agree 100%!
I must have missed something, didn’t read her denouncing her own race, just being accepting of the love she has for her white husband and mixed raced baby.
her father is black mother is white. remember when she and her sister went to find about her fathers side of the family? They were all black!!!
mother = Afrikan (in amerikka)…..look @ the picture
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my bad ur were right white father black mother i was so sure it was the other way around
sorry rusyn for thinking the other way u were right
i think people should leave tamera alone i dont have a probelm with interracial relationship, her son is so cute , adam love her and she love him that all what matter .
she and her sister = PHONY
the person she married is/was disgusting as a news person
She married exactly what I expected she would. She is colorblind alright, there was very little color at her shower. I stopped watching their show that day. I said it, and I ain’t changing it!
I for one am a white guy, and I don’t support interracial marriage. In fact, when I see especially blond hair, blue-eyed people with a rich European history having babies with blacks, it is like seeing an endangered species being shot. White worldwide are a MINORITY; we are only about 11% of the world’s population, and ALL of our nations are being flooded by NONWHITES who seek to enjoy the prosperity, hospitality and benefits of a civilized society that whites have built worldwide. When whites have babies with blacks, they are FOREVER deleting out their distinctive white genes– specific genetic traits that ONLY white people have. THis is a world of brown. White people should preserve their own race; after all, we are all extended family of each other in the white race. That is NOT IGNORANT to feel. It is reality.
You are a racist bigot. Your statement is INCREDIBLY ignorant and totally uncalled for. My first request to you is to visit a civil rights museum and a also a human rights museum. I want you to understand how long people fought for rights and what it means to have an equal status that has been for so long only granted to white males. Having a certain melanin pigment and genome sequence does not make one race better then the other. There is no need to feel superior when you yourself are such a complete ass. And by the way, if white people had such “civilized societies”, then why did they wipe other cultures through assimilation, systematically imperialize countries of the world, murder hundreds of MILLIONS of people in a quest for “religious” and world control, and then later form hegemonic societies in which children are taught to play off on stereotypes of other races and cultures and to have a terrible superior mindset? What civilized society would do that? I am not bashing on any race here, but it seems that you have forgotten many facts of history and politics on a LARGE scale. Through a large scale imperialistic model, many other nations, races cultures and ethnicities have been assimilated or wiped out. For what reason? I wouldn’t exactly called that “hospitality”. Also, when people travel to different countries, they want to make a better living and be treated as equals. White people do not provide ANY hospitality for immigrants who work their finger to the bone and barely make enough money to pull through; in fact there is a large amount of zenophobia here in the United States and in other European countries. So please, do not label your subjective, terribly bigoted and racist positions as a reality. They are not a reality. The reality is that minorities still have to deal with this type of mindset in 2013. It disheartens me so much.
I didn’t know the Tamera and her sister and brothers are biracial. Since the Mowry kids are biracial what’s this gotta do with Black people? Since Tamera’s mama is from the Bahamas, what do Bahamians thinks of the Mowry’s.If Tamera wants to be colorblind, so be it!!! Tamera’s decision don’t have anything to do with me as a Black person and I feel it has nothing to do with Black America. This is on Biracial folks, Bahamians, and White folks. Let them comment on this.