[wardaddy]

As far as interracial marriage or mixed race children and personal preferences, I think it is really only the business of the folks involved or the parents who wish particular parameters for their own progeny. Being in favor of wanting your own progeny to marry within whatever racial or ethnic or religious confines one prefers does not by default make such a person a racist.

What started out 45 years or so ago as a freedom and rights issue has now become a mantra in which if one does not personally endorse or applaud then one is smeared with the very tag one may have fought against once upon a time.

I have actually seen FReepers suggest that the only way to bring most blacks (as opposed to other races) up to the functioning level of most whites was to encourage interracial couplings and progeny in the hopes of obliterating whiteness and creating the old tired and true equal playing field. I find this type of notion condescending and paternalistic and racist in it's own way.

Why do probably 99.9% of the earth's population marry within their race and culture? Is it because the entire world is racist or is it culture? Is everyone wrong here?

Only in America is one slimed as a racist if they wish their kids to marry a girl or boy from their similar racial/ethnic/cultural tribe. Curious isn't it?

[ValerieUSA]

If you have a preference for your own children's marriage partners based on race - then yes, that is racist, even if you don't want to think so. Why would you think it isn't?