Bi-Racial Participants Sought for Obama documentary!

Dear Kimchi Mamas and Readers:

I just received the following annoucement from the folks at the Hapa Project (led by Kip Fulbeck - author of 100% Hapa). Please follow the link if you are interested!

Happy New Year!

Twizzle

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Journalist and TV personality Veronica De La Cruz is looking for people to be interviewed for an OBAMA documentary:

Did you grow up mixed-race? Bi-racial? Wiling to share your story? How do you feel an Obama presidency might change people's perspectives on race?

Are you tech-savvy? Do you blog, vlog or have a video journal? 

Did you do campaign for Obama and use the web or new media? How so? 

We want to hear from you!! Please drop us an email and preferably a video explaining why you would make a great subject for the documentary. 

Reach out to us: generationOdoc@gmail.com

http://www.allthingscnn.com/2008/11/getting-to-knowveronica-de-la-cruz.html

Comments

[amyB]

I have trouble relating Obama as a biracial person. Perhaps because I think of "biracial" being synonomous with "bicultural". Which he was not? Granted, he looked African American like his Kenyan father, but wasn't raised in a Kenyan-American household.

I don't know what my point is, other than I do see the amazing feat America has made by finally electing someone who "looks a little different", but that doesn't mean that biracial/bicultural people should look up to him because he looked different than those people who raised him.

I struggled with my bicultural family, as I'm sure many of you have. I guess I'm just a little sensitive about the terminology, perhaps...

[josie]

Then again, he spent a few years in Indonesia and even living in Hawai'i, albeit with his grandparents, would have had an experience that was different from the mainstream white, mainland one.

I forget where I read it but many of his appointees so far have been bicultural or third culture kids, bringing a wider international experience to the White House.

[Mary]

That's so cool. I'd SO do it if I were biracial.