Tanya Hernández was quoted in a Philly.com article about ongoing discrimination faced by multiracial individuals.
Tanya Hernandez, professor of law at Fordham University and author of a forthcoming book, Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination, said it fits into a larger societal idea that having closer relationships with people of other races can make people more empathetic.
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Comedians may joke that Trump is America’s first “racist grandpa” president, but he’s certainly not the first racist grandpa, and having biracial relatives isn’t necessarily making them less so.
“In their minds, they’ve already made a huge leap — they didn’t ostracize the white family member who is either in the interracial relationship or adopted a biracial child and gave them a biracial grandchild, whatever the dynamic may be,” Hernandez said. “They feel, ‘Look, I didn’t cut anybody off, I haven’t rejected this nonwhite child, it’s not 1942, look how progressive I am that I’ll call this person family.’ ”