Our conversation with Kai Wright of ColorLines.com about Halle Berry’s comments to Ebony magazine elicited a wide range of responses from The Takeaway community. Greg, a listener from WDET Detroit wrote, “The ‘mixed race’ tag is the new ‘one drop’ tag of the post racial era… Race trumps everything in America.”
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