This is why I struggle with it so much Luna. My last girlfriend was Italian. She and I were best friends. We were trying to have a baby, lol it was a lot of fun! I told her I was scared because she doesn't know what it's like to be black. And she doesn't know what her kids will and I experience on a daily basis.
When I told her what I experienced she seemed shocked and started crying. I wasn't comfortable having kids with her after that. When I talk to black women about my thoughts they understand my position and support me.
The interracial families I know are weird. The kids are only black on certain holidays and one month out of the year. Other than that they identify as Jewish or Christian and really step away from their African heritage. again, I can only speak from what I've experienced in my suburban bubble.
Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I can't give you any advice because I don't want kids. I will say that interracial relationships should be 'colorblind.' Which is hard to achieve in the U.S.
I have a white sister and it's crazy to think about it because I don't even see her as 'white', I see her as just... my family.
But that's besides the point. IR can work out if your partner has the right mind and if they're ready to raise a half-black child in America. Which requires them to be racially concious, ergo NOT colorblind.
Man, it's complicated.