If you are a single parent with mixed-race children, encourage them to be proud of being both black and white.
Photo credit: Shutterstock Writer Nation Media Group Summary Article Related What you need to know:Besides the racist attacks against her son, what pained her most was society judging her harshly for having a child with a white man.
When Anne Wambui got her second-born son with a white man, she did not know it was the beginning of a life-long journey of emotional torture.
Wambui, 36, says her white boyfriend left her when she was pregnant and went back to his country in Europe. She soon got a mixed-race baby, and humiliation, abuse, and ridicule followed. The last 10 years of motherhood have not been easy.
Instead of feeling the joy of becoming a mother, I have wallowed in shame, people made me a topic of discussion, I have spent a great deal of my time in despair, wondering why it is this hard to raise a mixed-race child, she tells the Nation.
It started with name-calling and graduated to harassment in school, in markets, and matatus.
Austin Bukenya: About being mixed race, and what Khaminwa told Senghor The cancer of racism continues to rage unabated, to the detriment of so-called people of colour everywhere, and the whole of decent humanity.
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