racism: it's a hell of a d**g_.

Here's a famous French song from 1961 which says that when you're an idiot, you're an idiot, regardless your age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3iDZhZzdFI Stop generation-shaming

Can we do better and please stop labeling and slamming entire generations?. Not everyone of a similar age, gender, religion, ethnicity, ect behaves or thinks the same way. It's called bias and is one of the reasons there are so many issues today.

Enough with the anti-boomer c**p. She's a jackass and an asshat, that's all that matters FFS. I guess the anti-boomer stuff has replaced the anti-American stuff though...

I'm a Jewish boomer who married a black girl, although she was more chocolate than black. Our beautiful daughter is a combination of the two of us. We are the generation that wholey accepted interracial marriage, and fought for equal rights. Maybe the first generation that passed The Civil Rights laws. Stop calling us racist. We did more than any other generation to promote equal rights, including the right to marry the person you loved, skin color be damned!

Are there really so many ignorant people who think that those of us born in the post WW2 years are unaware of mixed race marriages? Our generation BEGAN the 20th century trend. Go watch the wonderful film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Sure, racists abound but an entire generation is not the cause.

Again oh no it's a Boomer, PLEASE We are not all the same, but that is all you read. Now as soon as they mention Boomer I don't bother reading, WHY BOTHER BOOMERS GET BLAMED AS ALL IN

I've had similar things happen to me, though not to this extreme. But the comments or looks I get when I'm in public holding my kids hands sometimes is too much to bear. I'm white, my wife is latina, and my kids naturally look like her, with beautiful tanned skin, dark eyes and dark hair. People cannot comprehend I'm their dad, and want to be a hero all the time trying to interfere with me playing with my kids at a park or beach or whatever it is.

My husband is Italian, has medium brown hair, olive skin and brown eyes. My hair was strawberry blonde and I have brown eyes, but everyone in my family had blue eyes except my dad and my grandmother (his mom). Both of our sons have dark blonde hair and blue eyes. I have had the "joy" of explaining this to many people over the years who still look at me like I had an affair. Most people just don't understand genetics and how dominant and recessive genes work.

NO is a perfectly acceptable answer. OP really should have just said "NO" to the babysitting question, THEN gotten a manager for being harassed by this woman and been done with it. No commotion needed to be started.

Some people are just stupid and crazy. It's not a generational thing. Quit pitting people and generations against each other. All generations can learn something positive from each generation.

I got the opposite of this when I was much younger. I'm a complete WASP and I'd take my friend Thandi (Zulu) with me places (I was 9 years older than her but I'd babysit her sometimes - BTW this was very unusual during apartheid) and people would ask me if she was my daughter! Which would mean I'd have given birth to her when I was NINE (and no, I didn't look older than my age). Honestly.

The mother of my children had a child before them, but I accepted her as my own since she was 10 months ... my slight fear was having anybody think that she was "napped" while in my custody ... thankfully, nothing has happened ... I live in NYC so blended families tend to be accepted, but I can't imagine what this parent went through ...

Why not think it’s “conservatives “ who are the problem? They’re the ones who’d like to roll back Loving, and integration, right to marry etc. Maybe it’s no Boomers but conservative boomers?

Remember Bored Panda people, in the US, Loving versus Virginia (which struck down state laws banning interracial marriage) was only passed in 1967 (so 57 years old) and in many states it took several more years to be put into effect, so that's why a lot of boomers have issues with this. Inter-racial marriage was illegal for lots of their lives!