My oldest son is bi-racial and was bullied during his high school years as the only bi-racial in the school. Because he excelled in sports also did not help as he was taunted that he was good only because he was Bi-racial. He now accepts his stature in life and makes the best of any comments. His ability to be his own boss and be successfully self-employed is probably because of what happened in school.

She would have been popular in my high school. The latina figure was popular in my school that consisted of mainly african, carribean and latino/a students. But I lived in a diverse neighbourhood, if she grew up in white suburbia that must have been tough for her. Glad she has come to accept herself. And as a pale ghost , I cannot recall anyone asking me who I look more like.

She is a beautiful young lady. What beauty would a rainbow had if it were but one color?

Your daughter is very lucky, if only for having you for a mother.

Thank you for sharing this article. I love this sentiment:

"Racists are assholes. Their problem with me being mixed is and always will be their problem, not mine."

I was blessed to have a mother who was very progressive. When I was in the 1st or 2nd grade, I once came home from school and repeated a joke I was told by a schoolmate that contained the N-word. Not only did my mother literally wash my mouth out with soap, but she told me to never ever use that word again, and that if any of my school mates used that word, I shouldn't play with them, nor were they allowed in our house. I had no context for this lesson, no understanding of the history, and where I lived, there were very few people of color. But that really didn't matter; I just grew up knowing that other words I learned at school that horrified my grandparents, like 'shit' and 'fuck' were practically harmless as far as my mom was concerned, compared to that word!

I think that as a consequence I have always had an appreciation for variety over homogeneity and have valued diversity, a principle my wife and I have passed onto our children. We need to do whatever we can to eliminate this problem of racism and bigotry--a mode of thinking that is passed on from families and their chosen peer groups.

Someone had better tell Claire that those hips put on a show a lot of fellows find compelling. Of course, having to move in them might be another story. That I wouldn't know.

Your daughter is a beautiful young woman, it sucks that people will judge her for the tone of her skin. If there can be any consolation in that, it's the people who would exclude her aren't worthy of her time.

People who usually hate themselves will deal with with this hate by being nasty to others who are happy and beautiful.

She's beautiful.

The article is wonderfully written and very incisive. It is beyond shameful that people still need to write articles like this, but I don't see the underlying issue changing anytime soon. Makes me sad.

May harmony find you both.

She should embrace who she is. She is beautiful and I know she got it from her mother.

There are so many fascinating ironies concerning racial hatred, like I always was confused by Hitler's fixation on the term Aryan to describe the ideal "Saxon" or "Germanic" blooded people:

"Aryan" (/ˈɛəriən/)[1] has its roots as a term used as a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.[note 1] The term was used by the Indo-Aryan people of the Vedic period in Ancient India as a religious label for themselves and as well as the geographic region known as Āryāvarta, where Indo-Aryan culture is based (in this region).[2][3] The Iranian people used the term as an ethnic label for themselves in the Avesta scriptures, and the word forms the etymological source of the country name Iran.[4][5][6][7]

Your daughter should be proud of her whole heritage. Both caucasian AND latino. Looks come and go. It's the person who you become that matters.

The beauty of ones mind and appositive look out on life will over ride the body ,Clare is very beautiful .One has to first to fully love ones self Then the world is yours

She is lovely. It's sad that our society sets women up to be so critical of their bodies. It's rare that I meet a woman who just doesn't care whether her body conforms to some mythical standard set by advertising companies using women's bodies as a selling point.

Terrible she is beautiful

It's truly awful how people can be so ridiculously callous, and clueless.

Stupid and arbitrary "standards" of what constitutes "beauty".

Wide hips?! Where? She's absolutely gorgeous! So cute in that first pic . So beautiful in the others.. Tell her to pm me... ! I'll set her straight!

She's beautiful!