Posted on 04/13/2007 11:49:35 AM PDT by celejrm313
NEW YORK - The charisma king of the 2008 presidential field. The worlds best golfer. The captain of the New York Yankees. Besides superstardom, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter have another common bond: Each is the child of an interracial marriage.
For most of U.S. history, in most communities, such unions were taboo.
It was only 40 years ago on June 12, 1967 that the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down a Virginia statute barring whites from marrying nonwhites. The decision also overturned similar bans in 15 other states.
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“Yet some of the worst friction has been with her black in-laws. Kim said they accused her of scheming to take over the family business, and theres been virtually no contact for more than a year.
Everything was race, Kim said. I was called the white devil.
Call Jessie....call Fat Al!
Quick!
/SARCASM
Challenge.
Is the woman usually white in these cases?
Look at the multi-millionaire black, and you'll find they prefer "trophy wives", usually blonde....
Quite obvious, but un-PC to mention.
Anybody who doesn’t like the color of their skin can change it, M. Jackson did. By the way, what’s that perverted bastard doing nowadays?
Only in America can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich, white woman.
I used to think so, but from personal experience, I'm seeing more cases where the woman is black then white, granted I live in NYC, and am just going by what I see.
In the media with celebrities its the opposite though, or appears to be.
Its not a big deal.
Based on personal observation, yes, with the '70s and 80s generation, but that is changing, and fairly rapidly with the current "marrying age" generation.
From just looking at them, I'd have no idea Zach Johnson's marriage is interracial. /s
Kind of like Michael Jackson, huh? ;O)
>> Is the woman usually white in these cases?
>
> I used to think so...
According to the 2000 census figures, black men are about 2.5 times as likely to have a white wife as black women are to have a white husband:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/phc-t19.html
How about human? Or American?
I'm white, my wife is Japanese. I hate it when the government wants to racially categorize my kids on forms. I always leave it blank.
This is retarded. Just check whichever box is more likely to get the kid into college on a quota. Duh.
In the academic world I run into lots of mixed White/Asian people. It’s not anything we really take note of.
It’s not like multiracial people are hybrid organisms like mules.
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