Blasian in the Babytalk/GMA Cover Contest 2009

http://www.parenting.com/babytalk/covercontest

I finally caving under the pressure to submit Daniel’s photo into the Babytalk/Good Morning America cover contest for 2009. Since he was born I’ve been hearing I need to put him into contests and modeling. I’ve been taking a strong stance against any of these suggestions. Of course I think my son is adorable and would love for the world to see his ultimate yumminess. But I’m sorta conflicted about pitting babies against each other. After all aren’t all babies beautiful in there own way?

Well the answer should be yes. But it seems there’s always some study done which supports popular opinion that mixed race babies are the cutest. So can someone tell me why most baby photo contest tend to showoff mono-racial babies?

Is there a mixed race baby photo contest I’m not aware of that I should be entering? Because I’m not 100% on board with pitting my little mixie against single race babies. I don’t think you can even offer a fair comparison.  I dunno…maybe I just look for issues with everything. After all this is suppose to be a positive and happy thing right? I mean if we get into the finals then we can get some great prizes along with exposure… exposure that will bring the reality of mixed race blasian babies to the masses! *insert diabolic laughter* 

But wait…why is my little one the only blasian baby in this contest anyway?!  I took some time to check thru the photo of babies just to see if I could find another biracial child.  Now I could be wrong cause some of those kids gave me pause… racial speaking…but for the sake of my argument I’m going to say I think he was the only black and asian child…so far.  I can only hope I can talk another mom of a blasian into entering =) .

I feel entering this contest will be a good thing whether we win or not. If we don’t put ourselves and our community out there for society to become aware then our voices and images will remain in the background.  What a shame that would be