Multiracial African Americans, don't leave blacks behind: Thomas Williams
(NEWSER) - Interracial marriages may be on the rise in America, but with racial problems still so prevalent, mixed-race black people have an "ethical obligation" to identify as black, writes Thomas Chatterton Williams in the New York Times . Williams says he is grateful to live in modern America, where he has married a blue-eyed, blond-haired French woman, but the reality is that "a new multiracial community could flourish and evolve at black America’s expense. Indeed, the cost of mixed-race blacks deciding to turn away could be huge." More»