I got to say conversation you convey here Kennardo is just profoundly sad and depressing. Isn't the whole point that we should judge each other by the content of our character rather than the color of our skin? Should that not go both ways?

I reckognize this flawed thinking from my own country Norway. After Nazi occupation of Norway, a lot of Norwegian developed hatred towards Germans. Even when I grew up in the 1980s I remember people would often interpret anything Germans did as being about power and dominance. There was just this idea that the will to conquer and dominate was somehow just in the German blood.

Half-German kids in Norway got mistreated badly as they grew up in postwar Norway. It is highly ironic that we engaged in the same flawed logic as the Nazis. We judged a whole people for what some among them did. For what one generation did.

It is a universal human problem. It does not need to be black and white. It is between whites of different ethnicities. You can see similar things between Chinese and Japanese today. You see how the state of Israel treats Palestinians. It goes to show us humans are not that different. Regardless of skin color we are fully capable of prejudice and discrimination against each other. Those were were victims can just as easily become the perpetrators.

It is well known that schoolyard bullies have often themselves been bullied.

We must learn to break the cycle of hate and prejudice.

I find it extremely sad that somebody would be ashamed of being mixed and wish they were never born. That is some deep psychological issue. That must be a really hurtful thing for a parent to hear. Me and my wife are not of the same ethnic background. I would have been very sad and upset if my children were ashamed of any of their ethnic backgrounds.

Racial purity... isn't that the sick dream of right-wing lunatics? What would better signal the end of racism than a world where people mix freedly regardless of what the other person looks like. Instead we pick each other based on love and affection.