Why is there a bias against interracial dating?

AJC ^ | 1/10/04 | AJC

[cyborg]

Yes unless you are in shipping,hospitality,etc. and maybe natural gas/oil too. Things haven't been easy there with the last guy in office (a friend of Bill (Bill W and Bill C) but he's out so that's good.

[fatima]

God,I repeated your words except for they-I am not being sarcastic.IndependentSouthernDemocrat,You don't know me on this forum but I am just really listeneing right now and I like your honesty-.

[IndependentSouthernDemocrat]

Thanks. There is a greater chance in South Carolina in 2004 for a white man to be lynched (by blacks) for being with a black girl, than it is for a black man for being with a white woman. Strange how things change in 50 years time.

[fatima]

Come on "lynched"

[IndependentSouthernDemocrat]

Yes, but not with a rope. It is usually massive trauma from a blunt instrument or just a simple gunshot.

[fatima]

"Yes, but not with a rope. It is usually massive trauma from a blunt instrument or just a simple gunshot".From the blacks males?Why?

[IndependentSouthernDemocrat]

Just the way it is.

[Rytwyng]

Even though I went out with white guys (I'm a black woman), I KNEW my husband would be black

I respect your right to marry within your own group, if you wish, but, don't you think you were defrauding those white guys (of their time, their money, and perhaps in some cases their emotions as well) by accepting dates from them when you *knew* you'd never marry one?

My rule always was, I wouldn't date anyone that I knew, up front, I wouldn't marry. Of course, for a fornicator looking to have a good time, dating women he'd never marry would be okay -- but as a Christian I saw no other reason to date, other than to seek marriage.

[IndependentSouthernDemocrat]

Yes, from black males. I remember black males picking fights with me for talking to black girls on the school bus, directly after they were talking with white girls. There is a new double standard here.

[fatima]

IndependentSouthernDemocrat,Thank you for you honesty, ,fatima.

[IndependentSouthernDemocrat]

You are welcome.

[GreatOne]

My older brother is married to a second generation Chinese woman. My younger brother is married to a second generation Mexican woman. My sister has a black son. Me, I married a white girl - I'm the racist in my family, I guess.

[Woahhs]

This is understandable, but on the other hand there have also been high profile successful black females who seemed only interested in marrying very successful white men.

Success has nothing to do with it. They prefer white guys because they usually come pre-whipped ;o)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

My older brother is married to a second generation Chinese woman. My younger brother is married to a second generation Mexican woman. My sister has a black son. Me, I married a white girl - I'm the racist in my family, I guess.

If everyone were colorblind, and if blacks make up 10% of the population now, then after one generation 90% of blacks would have married other than blacks ('course their children, by historical standards, would all have been considered, "black"--but since I postulated that "everyone were colorblind," no one would notice in that case).

If everyone were colorblind, and if blacks make up 10% of the population now, then after one generation 10% of other-than-blacks would have married blacks.

"If everyone were colorblind", obviously requires a rather large "IF."

[New Horizon]

I've never seen this "uneven playing field" that people keep talking about. Where is it?

Affirmative Action.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I remember black males picking fights with me for talking to black girls on the school bus, directly after they were talking with white girls. There is a new double standard here.

In cases like that you don't ask "why?"

Double standards always indicate that the people who impose them can get away with them, and that's all the explanation you need.

Just as journalists call themselves (and, especially, each other) objective while attacking all politicians from the left. No other explanation is really needed but "because they can."

[M Kehoe]

Ping.

5.56mm

[malcolmtwain]

You've probably never seen the "uneven playing field" because when you are the top you can never accurately perceive how far down the bottom is. You are probably right though. The feckless public school educations, inadequate health care, and indecent apartment/project housing innumerable black kids live with probably is as equal a playing field as black people will ever witness in the land of lieberty and justus for yall. Oops, forgot to mention the drugs/weapons ridden neighborhoods we inhabit. But that's probably our own fault, since we are extremely resistant to burning down the coca and poppy fields in our sprawling backyards and the handgun factories at the corners of our streets.

[null and void]

"Jerk" has no color. I have always said that "jerk" should have its own passport and its own homeland, so the rest of us can go on our way in peace.

Well said.