“Rev.” Kimberly probably has to counsel the families of many unusual couples. Has anyone married their dog yet?
“several interracial couples said in interviews they still get nasty looks, insults and sometimes even violence “
Not so much anymore, and hasn’t happened to us in about 10 years.
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We visit Family who moved to Mississippi about ten years ago. The entire Liberal “Southern Man” hating meme is just that.
There are mixed Race Couples everywhere, there is no “obvious” public Racism, there are Gays everywhere and a whole bunch of people smoke Pot, young and old alike.
It’s like LA without the Communists, Mexicans and good Weather. Of course the Bugs are friggin unbelievable.
I live in a small Midwestern town that is racially split evenly black and white. There are more mixed couples, at least among the youth, than there are otherwise. No one cares. People love who they love.
The Marxist love this.
Not in 26 years, people really dont care. That’s my experience.
I haven’t experienced it. My wife (Singapore Chinese) gets jealousy directed at her, sometimes - but since it most often comes from women who outweigh her by 80 pounds I think it isn’t entirely racial. :)
I guess you pay your money and take your chances.
Wife is Japanese. I come from a town of ~800. Married over 20 years and no one has ever said a thing to me or my wife about race in the States.
My family was all onboard. Her mom was against it, but only till the grandkids came...to make it up to me she had me give her sister away at her sisters wedding. (Dad passed years earlier).
In law grumble stuff same as for any family otherwise. I think this is mostly hogwash.
Interracial marriage is positive as an independent liberty.
It is negative as a collectivist weapon.
William Buckley had a column on this maybe 20 years ago where he deftly questioned liberal media assumptions about the even-then emerging “hands up don't shoot” narrative.
Buckley, best I can remember, asked why any white person that wants to have kids would marry a black person knowing the supposed racist nature of America?
Buckley noted that if your son is perceived to be black he would certainly be harassed by police. (Now he would add arrested while driving black or just simply shot down by police while attempting to walk down the street.) The black child, Buckley noted, would be discriminated against at school, expelled more often, and unable to get a good education. He would face housing discrimination. He would face employment discrimination. He would face less medical care and earlier death. He would not be able to find a friendly church.
If it was bad then, it is worse today judging from stories in the popular media, statements from Hollywood and Democrat Party operatives.
As Buckley asked, if things are so bad why do mixed couples who want to have children get married and put young children through all that?
where someone didn’t have a problem on the bride’s or the groom’s side,” said the Rev. Kimberly D. Lucas