One of the challenges of raising bi-racial children is that phenotypically they may favor one parent or the other. In the case of my son who has physical characteristics that look like me, but does not have the same pigmentation, it is hard for him sometimes for him to know and understand and identify with being a young black kid, which is in fact what he is. What we do is we ensure that he is very closely in the presence of and is constantly talking to members of my family who favor me, but don't necessarily favor him. And helping him to understand that his grandfather and great-grandfather being dark-skinned in Texas, what their experiences were like. And that their mother's side of the family, who comes from a German background in Kansas, had very different experiences. But all of those experiences together help make up who he is. And that for him should be a source of pride and nothing to be ashamed of.