The whole MHP Controversy: A perspective from a interracial child

As most of you know,there was a huge controversy about a segment Melissa harris perry did on Romneys adopted black son. Suffice to say,i had a lot about to say about that one that i posted at various times(twitter and facebook mostly),but i've decided to collect them all in one permanent place.

First off i did not offended at the segment. I mean, both sides of my family have joked about my parents being a interracial couple at times,and its all good. That is what i was reminded of when seeing the segment. Interracial families(and people from them) can laugh at themselves from time to time,and as long as a person isn't obviously hateful about it or anything i don't think its a big deal for most interracial families/children.
 

What does annoy me is people who aren't from interracial families and never really cared about them before suddenly appointing themselves savior of them. Now, im not saying this applies to every single person who expressed offense at the segment, but i definitely feel like most of the conservatives participated in the backlash were like this. And speaking of of who participated in the backlash,there seemed to be a conspicuous lack of prominent interracial people getting to speak on this. Which frankly i find more insulting than the segment. People from interracial families can speak for ourselves.

I feel like the only reason Perry got attacked so much is because she's a black women. I mean, when the cheerios commercial with the interracial families got a bunch of backlash i didn't see many people standing up for it. The only mainstream coverage of it i could find was from MSNBC. And in the Phil Robertson interview that got so much attention for its homophobic comments,he also said some rather idiotic shit about blacks being happier pre-civil rights which didn't get much attention in comparison to the homophobic comments(Just to be clear, i think both statements deserved widespread condemnation). So yeah, im not sure i trust the sincerity of this baklash

With all that said, even though i don't think her on-air apology was necessary, i respect that she gave one that didn't fixate on intent unlike a lot of the ones given by public figures when they mess up. A recent example of that is the Ani Difranco apology,which seemed like a whole lot of words without much substance to them. On a related note, i can't remember the last time a white person gave a apology as sincere as Melissa's for offending black people.