Posted on 01/04/2017 2:35:56 PM PST by Timpanagos1
If you are American and over 50, then you were born in a country where, in some states, it was still illegal to marry someone of another race. The 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that struck down those bans, Loving v Virginia, falls in 2017. Though there will undoubtedly be many news stories lamenting racial bias in areas of American life from policing and employment to housing, the rise of interracial marriage over the past half-century tells a different story. In the coming year, calculates William Frey of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, nearly a fifth of all new marriages in America will be between people of different races.
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A good thing says the libertarian part or me. Yet I can only now appreciate (thanks to Obama) the angst felt by my parents from the deep south when this ruling came down.
I’m trying to remember the year this happened. In the South I worked with a very religious black woman, at an Insurance company home office. The subject of interracial marriage was being discussed at the lunch table. She was very much opposed. I joked that ‘one day we will all be khaki’. She was not amused. Still remained friends.
I grew up in Alabama, and remember first seeing an inter-racial couple in around 1984 - not in Alabama but on a trip to Michigan. Thirty short years later, and it seems almost commonplace.
We’re all human. If the race-baiting assholes would shut up and quit causing trouble, we’d all be better off.
But they make their living by causing trouble ...
Interracial marriage between black men and white women can be very dangerous for white women. According to certain sociological studies. White women are 12 times more likely to be murdered by their black husband than when married to a white man. The ratio is even higher in nonspousal intimate relationships.
White women are a race trophy for a lot of black men with a racist chip on their shoulder. Domestic violence often occurs when the woman refuses to cooperate with his demands and he takes it as a racial insult.
Eldrige Cleaver, one-time leader of the Black Panthers who was a self-confessed serial rapist of white women motivated by racist revenge wrote in his book, “Soul on Ice” Quote
““Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man’s law, upon his system of values, and that I was defiling his women – and this point, I believe, was the most satisfying to me because I was very resentful over the historical fact of how the white man has used the black woman. I felt I was getting revenge.
I started out practicing on black girls in the ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the Evil of a day. When I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically.”
He also wrote this about white women:
Many whites flatter themselves with the idea that the Negro male’s lust and desire for the white dream girl is purely an esthetic attraction, but nothing could be further from the truth. His motivation is often of such a bloody, hateful, bitter, and malignant nature that whites would really be hard pressed to find it flattering “
Police crime reports show that Cleaver’s view of white women is not an isolated view among black men.
I think grown folks should do as they please, as long as they are willing to live with the consequences.
We married in 1980, and there were two married interracial couples in our group of friends. We live in Florida and schools have been integrated since 1970ish. We’ve lived in the same neighborhood for 28 years and this neighborhood was integrated when we moved here and it’s still integrated at basically the same percentage make up for years. Blacks sell to whites who in turn sell back to a black couple, and vice versa. We also have the lowest crime rate in the entire city. We have many interracial families in the neighborhood. It’s not an unusual thing.
This is one of the reasons the Census is reporting that the White’s will lose majority status in the coming years.
I hung out with a lot of black guys growing up. I won’t let my daughters date them.
When people marry for love it in all probability will be good, regardless of their respective races. If they marry because of the others respective races bad thing are likely to happen.
I am white. My wife is Mexican and we have a wonderful marriage. Hell, today in Texas that is not even considered interracial. Sixty years ago, this was a no no and I believed every bit of the crap I was taught. When I grew up I determined it was crap and adjusted my thinking.
Believe it or not, a lot of people marry outside their own race because they fall in love, and not because of pop culture fads.
There are four such marriages in my family.
Disturbing? Why?
“White women are a race trophy for a lot of black men with a racist chip on their shoulder.”
Sadly true. Worse than that is that it creates the image that all black men have this attitude. Black friend of mine is married to a white woman. Star athlete, ex Ranger, smart, clever, his pick of mates was probably better than mine. He married her because he loves her and he treats her like a princess. I hate to think of how many people look at them together and get the wrongoing impression.
Exactly. There is so much effed-up ‘parenting’ going on these days it boggles the mind! Thanks, Socialists! Thanks American Psychiatric Association - or WHATEVER you’re calling yourselves these days. Thanks Government Schooling that FAILS to teach kids any Life Skills, but INSISTS they self-identify as a Unicorn or a Butterfly and to just pee in the hallway if they’re, ‘confused’ about which BATHROOM to use. *Rolleyes*
Is EVERYONE insane? How can a young child ‘decide’ it would rather be a ‘He’ or a ‘She’ unless someone (Mom, Dad, Lecherous Uncle Billy, or Mommy’s New Boyfriend) is pushing them in an opposite direction?
I was a TOTAL ‘Princess’ as a little girl, then grew into a Tomboy (for lack of a better word) later in life, then went into the Army for a huge chunk of my life so I could, ‘Let Freedom Ring’ and blow sh#t up! But I have NEVER wanted to change my gender; boys are smelly and gross for the most part, LOL!
I see a lot of RAGE and suicides (via drugs and lifestyle choices) in the future for kids coming up in these messed-up days. :(
Crazy Ivan, I agree. The stereotype often maligns a lot of good black people. I have friends and family who are involved in interracial marriages. Most happily so.
But that doesn’t negate the overall statistics that show the danger to white women in intimate partner relationships with black men. Interestingly this danger to the white partner doesn’t seem to be the case when the man is white and the woman is black.
Perhaps in several generations, this culture will change, Time will tell.
I recall seeing an article where black women are more likely to murder their spouse than white women.
I’ve observed a number of interracial marriages and in general the father tends to reject or neglect the children that don’t look like him once they hit Puberty(The man often leaves). This often results in unhappy or dysfunctional adults. This behavior probably stems from a biological anti-cuckolding instinct in men. Children from a different race isn’t an issue for mothers.
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