UPDATE: Wednesday, November 15 (6:26 p.m.) ET –
After comments on wanting his son to not just identify as “black’, Taye Diggs takes to Twitter to clarify just exactly what he means. Diggs tweets, my son “has every right to be just as proud of his mother’s ‘blood’ as well”;.
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— Taye Diggs (@TayeDiggs) November 18, 2015
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Taye Diggs says he doesn’t want his biracial son to identify as just black or just white and wants his 6-year-old son to embrace being mixed.
Speaking with The Grio he says when you call your biracial child black, “you risk disrespecting that one half of who you are, and that’s my fear.” Diggs added, “I don’t want my son to be in a situation where he calls himself black and everyone thinks he has a black mom and a black dad, and then they see a white mother, they wonder, ‘Oh, what’s going on?'”
The actor was promoting his new children’s book “Mixed Me”;, a book inspired by his son’s experience with a black father and white mother, singer and actress Idina Menzel.
The actor adds “Mixed Me” is really a book about “self-love and self-appreciation, and knowing that you are special, regardless of what people will say about you because people will always say stuff.”