A mum who is black says "racist" strangers question whether she is related to her pale-skinned daughter. Alex McCurry, 36, posted the video after suffering a series of bizarre encounters with people who refused to believe her daughter is hers. Project manager Alex, who wants to protect her four-month-old daughter's anonymity, admits she seems to have taken more after her husband Rob, who is white. Alex, from Frederick, Maryland, USA, said: "My daughter, we call her Pudge-Pudge because of how adorably chubby she is, is SO light. "And I experienced a situation where someone essentially questioned whether she was my child, they just didn't understand biology, so I put it on TikTok because I was frustrated." Alex has experienced this kind of interaction fairly often for the last five years, starting with her oldest daughter. The latest experience, with her four-month-old, was the straw that broke the camel's back. Alex was out with Pudge-Pudge, hugging and kissing the child, when a woman approached her, saying that the little girl was adorable, but things quickly turned south. The woman then said with confusion, "Is she your baby?", and when Alex replied that she was, the woman was baffled, "but she's so white!', she exclaimed. This alone wouldn't be a huge problem, but it's the cumulative effect of centuries of history, and five years of these questions that drove Alex to the internet. She added: "I'm letting people know, moms who are in interracial relationships and have biracial children, can have children of all colours." Alex simply wants people to understand that walking up to a stranger and questioning the parentage is not acceptable. From the reception her video has received, it's clear there are many who agree with her.
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