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tomia
Registered: Sept 23, 2005
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    Nov 05, 2005 at 06:50 PMReply with quote#8
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Originally Posted by Dave

Sounds like The Young and the Restless is doing some good things for biracials. There are a lot of things related to mulattos that I haven't seen yet on tv. Like a show with an adult first generation mulatto son and/or daughter with a living black parent and a living white parent, where the family is not more dysfunctional than the typical tv family. I know that's a very specific request, but I'd like to see it.



Yes, I like what The Young and the Restless is doing. They also cast Bryton McClure (the little kid from Family Matters). He is Dru's and Neil's foster child. His mother is supposed to be a crack addict (which I would object to but considering Dru and Neil as well as Shemar Moore's character Malcolm are all successful business people it balances out) and they cast her with a Mulatta actress as well so that is great.

I would also like to see an interracial family --where, as you said BOTH parents are in the home and living-- with first gen Mulatto children (played by actual biracial actors of course).

I am not sure if any of you watch Judging Amy. Well I don't even know if they make it anymore but I did use to watch it. Tyne Daley plays Amy's mother (of course Tyne used to be on Cagney & Lacey). Anyway, she was married to actor/director George Stanford-Brown who is Black and they have 2 or 3 children. On one episode of Judging Amy you know Tyne had her hand in the storyline or atleast in the casting because it involved a Mulatta teenager (played by an actual --gasp-- biracial child!) who was being raised by her only living relative, her maternal grandfather, who was a crochety old Irish guy. One of the most beautiful things about it was that they focused on the storyline of these two headstrong people --one a teenager and one a senior citizen-- and how they needed to get along to make their family work and they never once mentioned the race dynamic. I thought that was terrific.