"...All too often, mixed-race people are already perceived as beautiful-because-exotic. All too often, multiracial kids are fawned over by well-meaning strangers for that special something - the texture of their hair, their skin tone, the shape of their eyes, that slight touch of flava. And we must be conscious of oversimplification. We must be mindful that moving forward means not returning to making snap judgments about people based on factors that are only skin-deep. We must recognize that 'exotic' can be a euphemism for 'different' ... Racial mixing and being multiracial alone will not solve our society's problems. That fact that these kids are mixed is not what will make them our ambassadors for a better world. What will do that is the fact that they represent what we all are - unique, questioning, afraid, hopeful, angry, joyous ... But more than this, these children, like all children, are honest and fearless in bringing themselves to the table, honest in showing without prejudice that many of us adults choose to hide, or have forgotten how to show."
-Kip Fulbeck
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