Interracial couples

I noticed people of all races tend to show so much hatred towards interracial couples even people who wre not even apart of that race like how does it have anything to do with them men and women alike have issues with it

 

Small minded bigots and 'nationalists matey. Take no notice of them, just think of them as a piece of crap !!!

 

When I first started dating all of my girlfriend were white. Being the only black family in an all-white neighborhood I didn’t have many options.

Call me naïve but I never even considered race as a factor until I noticed how uncomfortable some of the parents were around me, not all just some, and how when we went out on a date how other people were staring at us.

I’d like to believe it was just the public display of affection which made people uncomfortable, and not the fact that we were of different races.

 

Unfortunately the US has much to do to overcome racial prejudice. We had our fair share of it over here immediately after the war and into the 50s and early 60s but legislation against racial prejudice has by and large eliminated it, although there are still pockets of it.

 

Strange. I never see this and I live in the Deep South.

 

Well, Oklahoma ain't the Deep South, but its one of the reddest Red States, and the Buckle of the Bible Belt. Seems to me that interracial couples aren't that uncommon at the local WalMart, and nobody seems to pay much attention. It may be different in the really small towns or more rural parts of the state, where folks may never have seen anyone of another race in person. And of course it matters what "race" we're talking about. In my state, intermarriage between whites and Native Americans has been fairly common, to the point that people, including MAGA Retrumplicans like our Gov.Stitt, brag about their Native American ancestry . Stitt is on the Cherokee tribal roles. The Cherokees tried to dis-enroll him, and he's currently in a tight race for re-election because the so-called "Civilized Tribes" are voting en masse for his opponent. (He hasn't been friendly to tribal rights in the State).

 

I really don't see a lot of this so called "racism" that a lot of people claim takes place here. I have neighbors of different races in my subdivision and we all just say hello and do like people do. I think a lot of it is overblown to shit stir etc.

 

Someone needs a brief history lesson.

Interracial marriages only became legal in Georgia in 1967

 

Well thats been what? 55 years? Why not live in the now and leave all the griping behind? Also, there are always going to be "those" people who will look at others that way and do others that way.... but they are nowhere near the majority!

 

With parents, interracial dating can be a big issue, particularly when it comes to daughters. I have a couple of friends who were real bigots. One even used to wear a necklace of confederate flags. But their daughters were more broadminded. My friends ended up with bi-racial grandchildren--African-American in one case, Hispanic in the other--and in each case, one from two different fathers! And they love those kids, and had to clean up their act to avoid racial slurs in their presence.

 

Someone needs a math lesson as well

33% of all Americans are 55 or older, so it happened within the lifetime of tens of millions of people still alive today

Many of whom still remember those times - not so long ago.

 

Boy you are hostile arent you? I'm 56 years old. I grew up about 2 hours north of Atlanta. I am white. I was taught to respect people regardless of their race. I will admit that there were times ,when I was very small, that if a couple was interracial it would've raised some eyebrows but thats about all. Most people arent the monsters you apparently want them to be. Most people are just people who mind their own business.

 

And u have people who will disown there own children who dates outside there race and lot of the time men and women of different races gets upset even if they are not of the same race black man date white women arab or Chinese guy gets upset like stuff like that

 

But why would a member of a different race be upset black man dates asian women Somalian guy gets upset where is the sense In that

 

Now calm down all of you.
WE ARE A HIP FAMILY XXXX

 

The thread started with a personal observation that "people tend to show so much hatred," but without a single example. It's an extremely vague premise. It seems to me a case of projection bias, projecting one's own views onto others, without having any idea what is in their minds or hearts.

People who identify most closely with race, and the OP's postings on this site deal almost exclusively with race and racial identify, tend to assume that others see the world in exactly the same way, through a prism of race. It's just not so. For some, race is what they most identify with, and how they most perceive and identify others. It answers all questions and explains all motivations. For most people, it's not even in the top five personal characteristics. The race obsessed would have difficulty believing that racial identity is 178th on someone's list of personal characteristics, but it's true. Not all hatred is racial, and not all perceived hatred even exists.

Regarding the premise of "so much hatred," no disproportionately high rate involving interracial couples is reflected in data about victims of violent crime in the US compiled and released by the Justice Department. The opposite appears to be true - that such couples have disproportionately low rates of being the victims of violent crime.

 

Errmm how long has it been since segregation on buses ceased ???

 

In the late 60's. And your point?

 

In your life-time then, so there has been instances of glaring racism which you yourself may have observed !!!