Jennifer Trannon: It's OK to Say Black

May 15th, 2009 - The Huffington Post

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I am a white woman married to a Black man. We are raising our biracial children in a mostly white suburb of Chicago.

One day last fall, we were at my eldest son's football game and I was chatting with my friend Sue, who introduced me to another mom. The other mom asked me, "And who is your husband?"

Sue pointed to my husband, the only Black man on either side of the field, and said, "That man over there in the yellow shirt. With the beard." Sue's friend continued to look around the field until I said, "The Black guy."

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