Why is there a bias against interracial dating?

AJC ^ | 1/10/04 | AJC

[cyborg]

One of the things I most enjoyed in the time I worked overseas is that for a while you get to forget about race completely. This may in fact be a part of why I do forget about it unless someone forces me to focus. Each country has its own kinds of bigotry, but I am outside that also, so it is like a load removed from my shoulders. Once the load is gone I don't know why anyone would want to take it on again.

***I went to England, France and Italy this year. I think the minute I stepped off the airplane I was a different person. A lot of people who go overseas have that experience.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

In my lifetime interracial relations have totally turned around. I was not raised to be racial, but when I look back life was very racially divided and I am from NJ.

It seems to me that the most important thing in relationships is compatibility. The bumps on your head fit the holes on mine. Sharing the same windows on the world.

I happily find myself in a world and work enviornment that is color blind and more into seeking others as friends and associates who are of the same mind set. As my 15 year old grandson said, all people are the same. He is very smart. We truly are.

There are always people who are angry, angry about everything mostly. They are ever vigilant and angry ethnics, can you say Al Sharpton, who is a disgrace to the black community? He is truly an angry ethnic grifter who has more in common with the ClinToons than any damnocrat politician. He does not think he can be the president of the United States of America but he dooes think he can be the CEO of the Push Coalition, and he can. Jump back Jessie! Scandelous!!!!

[AUH2OY2K]

The folks in this group keep falling into using the adopted rhetoric of the Democratic Party. What do you mean by black or white? The whole concept of race is predicated upon nothing but ignorance and hate. The Democrats have used this false premise to enslave, lynch, and segregate. There is one race, the human race.

[fatima]

Your right cyborg,I want to marry my dog.He is tan.

[cyborg]

LOL... well from some of the news of late some people are putting interracial love into practice. Never get between a man and his cow.

[af_vet_1981]

Why is there a bias against interracial dating, especially between blacks and whites? Almost certainly, people with that bias are people who have no close friends of other races. And unfortunately that's still a sizeable population. Once you have spent time with each other, cried on each other's shoulders, worshipped together at church, or played games long into the night at each other's homes, somehow the idea of their daughter dating your son becomes a non-issue.

The issue is larger than race. It is tribal. Can your date become your mate ? Do you share the same faith and family values ? Do you treat each other with mutual respect befitting the parent of your children ?

If the answer to these questions is no, then race, language, nationality, or faith accentuates the gulf between the couple not to be.

[gaijin]

The Asian population intermixes with any race and this barely raises an eyebrow

Now that is REALLY rich.

[cyborg]

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/racism.asp
There are some people who actually do make a positive attitude about human beings a way of life.

[af_vet_1981]

The decision not to consider her "history" is due to the fact that white men consider her "pure as snow". LOL!

Oh, you are into color. You use phrases like "white men."

Rapists deserve a fair trial and a fast hanging.

Supporters of rapists deserve public scorn and ridicule.

[cyborg]

Actually I think this FReeper was making light of sistert 's nasty attitude, but I could be wrong. I think rapists need summary dispatching to the hereafter.

[larlaw]

Although I would be lying if I said I have absolutely no qualms about interracial dating and/or marriage, I do think it is largely a question of culture more than it is of race.

To those who are unsure, ask yourself this question: If you had a daughter, who would you rather her marry a white man like Bill Clinton, or a black man like Clarence Thomas???

[Thumper1960]

All this angst over a difference in the amount of melanin.

[fatima]

Hi beautiful,Just teasing you,I respect you and your posts,fatima

[cyborg]

Oh I know ;-) (but that cow story is FOR REAL!)

[af_vet_1981]

To those who are unsure, ask yourself this question: If you had a daughter, who would you rather her marry a white man like Bill Clinton, or a black man like Clarence Thomas???

Yes, or if you had a son, would he find a more suitiable mate in Condoleeza Rice or Hillary Clinton ?

[luckystarmom]

Not in my family. My family (parents, brothers, sisters-in-law) was shocked when I said that it would be okay for my kids to date people of other races as long as they were Christians.

I think this is a much bigger issue in areas in the south.

[Thumper1960]

Would you want your son to marry a Britney Spears?

[HungarianGypsy]

In college I remember a black boy asking me why I did not date blacks. I told him I hadn't found any that I had a chemistry with. He didn't quite understand my meaning, but then within seconds said his girlfriend might get mad if she saw him talking to me, since she didn't like him around white girls.

[cyborg]

LOL careful Brittany Spears is worshipped by many male FReepers. Some may actually WANT their sons to marry Brittany.

[Thumper1960]

Well...she may be fun for a few hours romp.....but, she sure appears unstable!