Recently my father got engaged to an African-American woman. I reacted like any other daughter whose dad was about to marry another woman that wasn’t her own mother. At first, she noticed my hostility towards her the wrong way. She asked me, “Does it bother you that your father is in a biracial relationship?” I was in shock, and I was speechless. My dad quickly interjected and claimed racism is a thing of the past. Especially being German, he claims that Germans are very aware and have learned from the history of the Holocaust and see the foolishness of racial discrimination and the negative consequences it has on society. You don’t have to be German to disregard racial differences. Maybe you just have to be young and have a fresh take on the world. Take, for example, one of the new additions to my family: my three-year-old niece. She was sitting in the room with my … Read entire article »