Interracial Relationships. Racism played a major role in United States history.In the short story “Désirée’s Baby”, Chopin tells a story about a white family having a black child. The father thinks the wife has black ancestry when it's really him with it. He cares more of what society thinks of him rather than his family. The things that racism caused in this world were horrible and i am strongly against it.Every human being in this world is made up of the same exact thing. Our personality shows our true color, not our skin complexion. In “Désirée’s Baby”, The parents of the black child are white complexed. The couple decide to have a child. The weird thing about this odd toddler is that his skin complexion is black. Many conflicts arose from …show more content…
The cause of this is because he assumes that the wife has black ancestry. What the father didn't know was that it was him with the black …show more content…
If you had a bad reputation, then yes, it's understandable to be treated unfairly. But if somebody is innocent and you get treated unfairly, that's different. This is what made everything bad in that era. If somebody were to see skeletons of a black person and a white person, he/she wouldn't be able to tell to whom each skeleton belongs to. We act how we want. We don't act a certain way because of skin complexion. People apparently didn't know that we all have white bones. Many people appear to be white but are actually black. For example, Mariah Carey. She looks all out white when she's mostly black. Now this is what i do not understand. If Mariah Carey sang back then, would people have admired her like they do now? I do not understand what would make her different if she went back to the setting of the short story. Mariah Carey said on Ebony magazine in 1995, “ I consider myself mostly black even though i'm part venezuelan and Irish too.”. You can never assume somebodies ethnicity based on looks. Many people appear on what they are not to