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    USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY May 30

    We want to hear from you.https://usat.ly/2H4ORaw 

    8:30 PM - 30 May 2018
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      2. Tay'Challa Gladiates‏ @artsyChica2012 May 30
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Sure did, in the hospital after giving birth to youngest son; he'd been born with the cord around his neck so they kept us a few days. He had no color on the tips of his ears or cuticles. I called him buttercream for a reason He's in the incubator, 1/2

        1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
      3. Tay'Challa Gladiates‏ @artsyChica2012 May 30
        Replying to @artsyChica2012 @USATODAY

        I'm there w/my hand in the opening, another mother walks in, gives us a look, then asks me if that's my child. When I tell her yes, she asks me if the daddy was white. When I told her no, her expression was pure astonishment. I wasn't in the mood to explain how that works 2/2

        3 replies 1 retweet 42 likes
      4. Dimetrius‏ @Dimetrius4 May 31
        Replying to @artsyChica2012 @USATODAY

        This happened to me too. I was asked the race of my daughter's father as well during our NICU stay. My daughter was light skinned with red hair. Me worried about my child didn't think how racist that was until later.

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      2. Etomi  🌊‏ @Etomi May 30
        Replying to @USATODAY

        See my profile pic? My two, 2 1/2 years apart in age, were both very light-skinned with straight textured hair. (My husband is also black.) I was constantly asked if I was the babysitter or nanny. They've both darkened up with age, now 35 & 32.

        2 replies 3 retweets 23 likes
      3. Etomi  🌊‏ @Etomi May 30
        Replying to @Etomi @USATODAY

        2/What was worse, not only did white folks question my maternity, but also some black folks. Some assumed their father was white. It was irritating. When my son was born, the maternity ward was in quads - two moms on one side & two on the other.

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      1. vote Nov. 6th‏ @julbeelee May 30
        Replying to @TheSuburbanDiva @USATODAY

        My mom was! All the time. I looked more like my dad, and people thought she was just some lady that came up and started talking to me. (That was the most benign response- some were less pleasant.)

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      2. Sophia‏Verified account @SophiaCannon May 30
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Arrested. As she was obviously not my child.pic.twitter.com/0ncGAJgglE

        9 replies 2 retweets 34 likes
      3. Skipperdee‏ @Skipperdee2015 May 31
        Replying to @SophiaCannon @USATODAY

        Wait- you must share this whole story!!! That's insane!!!

        0 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
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      2. LIL SPORTY D™‏ @LilSportyD May 31
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Yes me & my daughterpic.twitter.com/FNaxsOI1JI

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      3. triciacol‏ @triciacol May 31
        Replying to @LilSportyD @USATODAY

        Sweet pic!

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      2. Kat Dub‏ @TheKatWill May 30
        Replying to @USATODAY

        This was my mother and I. My mother was always questioned or presumed to be a nanny (despite her PhD) Both of my parents are black.pic.twitter.com/wUbh9JtKDU

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      1. Sweet Tea‏ @sugarcane_tea May 30
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        While raising my biracial son, I was regularly offered jobs by well heeled white women to be their grandchildren’s nanny since I was “doing such a good job” as they watched us at the mall. It happened for the 4 years we lived in the southeastern US.

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      2. Lucky Jim‏ @67LuckyJim May 30
        Replying to @USATODAY

        We were driving from New York into Canada. The border guard asked our kid if I was his “pop.” He didn’t know what pop meant so he said no. We got to spend some quality time in the station. Btw, border guards don’t think it’s funny if you say they can keep your kid as collateral.

        1 reply 1 retweet 47 likes
      3. La Temeraria‏ @LaTemeraria May 31
        Replying to @67LuckyJim @USATODAY

        As a rule, no sense of humor. Years ago, asked the purpose of my crossing to Mexico the evening before CPB likewise did not appreciate my response, “To have dinner & sleep with a Mexican. <pause> My husband.” Stonefaced—dude just pointed to secondary.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. La Temeraria‏ @LaTemeraria May 31
        Replying to @LaTemeraria

        We lived in Mexico. He worked there. I crossed every morning to my law firm in Brownsville. Some mornings you just get tired of answering the same questions day after day. But I only gave that one once.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      5. Lucky Jim‏ @67LuckyJim May 31
        Replying to @LaTemeraria

        😄

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      2. #KeepFamiliesTogether‏ @NoKidsInCages May 30
        Replying to @USATODAY

        I have a rule. If an adult has a child with them doing anything families do, assume they’re the parent. If they aren’t, they probably won’t be offended by your assumption.

        2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
      3. ellen musk‏ @pinchehaole May 30
        Replying to @NoKidsInCages @USATODAY

        Same, and as someone with older parents, I’ll go to mom/dad and wait to be corrected to grandma/grandpa bc I know how much it hurt my parents when they were assumed to be my grandparents

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