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All Ducks are interfertile, but the different species of Duck like to live apart and breed among their own mostly (Black Ducks and Mallards do mix it up more frequently). So inter-fertility has nothing to do with intentions, whether you want to claim God or nature as the force causing things to be how they are.

I understand your need to justify your own existence, but you really shouldn't sweat it. You are what you are. You don't need to fall for utter nonsense about genetic diversity that is spouted nowadays. I'd encourage you to google this "more diversity within ethnicities than between" them silliness that we hear all the time now and try to track down its origin. I think you'll find its a bunch of hogwash. Especially since it originated years before the human genome was fully mapped (was it even? the two teams don't even agree on how many genes there are).

If God really intended everybody to just breed together at will, He certainly could have helped things along by not making white people Rhesus factor negative in their blood type. Rh- mothers tend to die rather horific deaths when they have Rh+ babies. Interfertility wouldn't go over too well between Rh- people (found almost exclusviely among whites) and Rh+ people (Blacks and Asians, with many whites today also because of interbreeding) for very long.

The RH factor is NOT racially conssistent with what you have stated. There are MANY ( most ! ) whites, who are RH + and NOT from " interbreeding " . RH negative is the oddity, yes dear, even and especially amongst Caucazoids.

A mother, who is RH negative and is carrying an RH+ baby, is NOT going to suffer terribly / die. What old wives tales ( or did you just make that up ? ) are you getting this from ? Neither is aan RH+ mother, carrying an RH negative baby, going to suffer terribly / die.

Oh and an " ethnicity " refers to a person / persons from ddifferent places ( i.c. Sweden, Germany, Austria, England, America,etc. ) and NOT race, per se.

Regarding your earlier questions of race and preferences:

When I first read your questions I immediately regarded you as nothing more than a fool - though I do support your preferences of living amongst only your 'kind.' My support shouldn't be mistaken as anything more than a belief in freedom and a respect for your right to associate as you wish.

After reading your later posts I changed my mind about you. I don't think you're a fool at all - though I suspect you're more than a little prejudiced and not all that familiar with people of other races.

Character matters far more than skin color; the nature of our home-life is a far larger influence on our role in society than race will ever be. I'm not saying there aren't differences - there are. Though those differences tend to be less noticeable than the environmental differences we each carry in life.

I grew up in the midwest, other than television or the occasional trip to a large city I never had contact with someone whose skin color was vastly different from mine (aside from a few Mexicans I should say). I heard every stereotype there is when it came to blacks and had absolutely nothing as for experience to believe otherwise. I didn't necessarily believe the various stereotypes, but I wasn't sure they weren't true either.

Upon reaching adulthood I moved away from the midwest - ending up in New Jersey (of all places). After several years I met and eventually married my wife - as fine a woman as there is. I suppose I should mention that she is a native of NJ and lived a life featuring vast differences from those I encountered in my world of farming in the midwest.

In our years together I have indeed noticed differences; she (and her family) have ways of doing things that seem almost foreign to me (at times anyway). Those differences run the gamut of course - but I cannot think of one single difference that can be explained by our racial heritages.

You see, my wife is black and I am white - in fact my heritage isn't all that different from yours (though I HAD black hair - now gray - and am not a pale, pale white). We have 3 children - the last a freshman in college and all 3 have done amazingly well during the course of their lives.

I don't consider myself (or my family) to be anything other than Americans - in fact I hate the term "African-American" since I feel it is inappropriate at best (You're either American or you are not).

Of my family, half of whom are black, every single one of them work and own their own homes. Some are more successful than others - but all are safely in the middle class (my definition - not the Democrats).

I've found that overall, my in-laws are more conservative politically than my birth family. My parents were, and are, Democrats - of the kind that actually believes the crap about Republicans being for the rich and that sort of nonsense. I have two brothers and two sisters - their political thoughts split down the middle (2 conservatives, and 2 liberals). I wasn't raised to be a Republican - I become one with knowledge.

I've rambled on enough - though I wished to shed some light as why I answer your questions as I do.

I wouldn't have a problem with my daughter marrying someone of any race - as long as her husband had character. The same can be said for my sons. It's obvious that I always share my table with black people - I'd get kicked out of my own house if I didn't. I happen to live in a neighborhood that is roughly 50/50 (black/white) - it's a nice neighborhood with zero crime. The homes, being NJ, are probably considered on the high side when compared to most areas in this nation; they're nice and typical for the homes found in a middle class area in NJ. I'd have no problem at all if the entire neighborhood were all black with me being the lone exception - as long as the families were all of good character.

Lastly: my wife and I have experienced racism from both sides of the fence. I think it's an equal opportunity act, one that doesn't seem to have boundaries at all. I usually consider such a thing to be a condition of severe ignorance - though nobody has ever pushed the issue with me (probably due to my size and my temperament - I can be rather nasty when I'm in the mood). I have had to make a few people 'see the light - so to speak' concerning their actions toward my wife. My children have escaped relatively unscathed - short of the rare name-calling incident. My family has always been well received back home (the midwest) - I fully believe that is solely due to their character and nothing more.