CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien speaks at Jesse Hall in Columbia

Friday, February 25, 2011 | 10:41 p.m. CST; updated 10:25 p.m. CST, Saturday, February 26, 2011

COLUMBIA — Soledad O'Brien's mother, a black Cuban woman who married a white Australian man, was told by a friend, "Whatever you do, don't have kids. Biracial children will never fit in in this world."

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