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But Charlotte did not look like she was of mixed race. We didn't get a good look at her father, but I would assume that he was possibly half white as well.
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
The story was pretty typical of the PC hatred towards white guys these days though. The father is cuckholded by a wife who says she briefly met a black guy and it was the most magical connection she ever had. Does he walk away from her? No, he stays with this unfaithful woman and raises another man's child out of love for her, shoulders the responsibility that "magical' guy who would sleep with another man's wife on a choir trip never did and he is portrayed as weak, worthless and mean for doing so? I guess being a responsible adult, being a MAN and making decisions that impact your life negatively, cause you decades of private anguish, for the welfare of a child is cowardly and horrible?
"There's a little good inside everyone. Sometimes it just takes a scalpel to find it." - Me
It was because of (a) his drinking and (b) the fact that he lashed out at an 11-year-old girl for something she knew nothing about and had no responsibility for. Staying with his wife and raising her child was not the problem; resenting her (and probably eventually the wife) was.
Boo Hoo! Let me wipe away the tears with my PLASTIC hand!--Lindsey McDonald (Angel)
Watch it again. A) It never says that he drank before his wife cuckholded him and bore the child of another man.
B) She actually says "You spineless worm. So weak you raised another man's baby as your own instead of admitting how much you hated it." How is that weakness? It would be more manly to leave a pregnant woman? To abandon a child who had no part in her shame? No. You swallow your resentment and do the right thing and try your damndest to love the child as your own.
His true moment of weakness was letting his guard down for a few moments while drunk (drinking most likely to deal with inner suffering) and saying one regrettable thing. One moment of weakness in a lifetime of commitment to faithless spouse and a bastard child. The way the show frames it aside, the facts on the table are the vast majority of his actions show a guy who made a noble decision, a guy with a massive, sense of commitment and duty that he allowed to destroy him rather than abandon it. That's not the action of a spineless worm. A truly weak man would have walked away from the get.
"There's a little good inside everyone. Sometimes it just takes a scalpel to find it." - Me
But Charlotte did not look like she was of mixed race. We didn't get a good look at her father, but I would assume that he was possibly half white as well.