[jeffersondem]

“We just ran into a lot of racism, a lot of issues, a lot of problems. You'd go into a restaurant, people wouldn't want to serve you. When you're walking down the street together, it was like you've got a contagious disease.”

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?

[Jamestown1630]

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

Maybe because they love one another, understand that they are Individuals with the God-gtven Right to do as they please; and are willing to deal with the difficulties, because they believe in the Future and a day where skin color won't matter.

I see many mixed couples in my area, and the kids aren't suffering because of it. Their parents are often still afraid to let the teens drive the 'Big Black Cadillac', in case the cops think that they've stolen it and are up to no good (Black folks still fear this stuff!)

But, the "world" has changed, and Buckley (R.I.P.) was speaking many years ago.