What is this? The first African American in the White House? We are still a country preoccupied with racial classifications founded in slavery and post slavery thinking? Most cultures address descent by identification of mother. Jews follow descent by mother even in this country descent followed the mother, when white slave owners impregnated their black slave women, what kind of crisis would this create? Mass hysteria. So descent was traced through the mother. Isn't it ironic that we let mass media and peer pressure deny us from questioning that a man born in the belly of a white woman is only black? I think we must insist that people be allowed to be mixed. Imagine the feelings that Barack Obama must have felt, I can't blame him for calling himself black because his times were different. Today though we have an opportunity to stop that. Can we start allowing a mixed child to enjoy both heritages? How can we all still have these ideas? We would rather focus on our differences and ignore that Science has shown that these differences don’t even really exist.
Let me ask do any of you still take an extra longer look when you see a mixed race couple? I still can’t figure out why I do.
What I also can’t figure out is why the black man that I love, would never trade in and will spend the rest of my life with I occasionally look at him and say to myself why is my hair like that?
What is wrong with me?
What is this big deal with Race
By GHook - Posted on October 25th, 2008
Listening to people talk about this election around me has had me concerned with the outcome of this election. When I talk to my African American friends about this election most of them claim to be in support of Obama without knowing anything he stands for. They state they are simply voting for him because he is black. I understand the idea of bonding together as a cultural group, but most of my friends have turned it into a race issue rather than a political issue. It's sad.
As for your comment about mixed couples I have a personal experience to add to that. Before I moved to Orlando, FL I had never dreamed of dating any person outside my race or culture. It was taught to me early on that it was morally wrong and that it was disrespectful to myself and my family. This is what I was taught growing up and until I moved out of that close minded and racist area. I am now dating a black man ( I am as white as they come,) and I do see the stares and double takes that people do when we are with eachother. At first it didn't bother me, but when I went to tell my family and friends back home, my outlook changed. They were "dissappointed" in me, is the words they used, They stated it was a bad idea and that I needed to respect myself more. (It was then that I learned that my grandmother was and still is part of the KKK, so her ideaology is a little clouded anyways.) She told me I should take more pride in being white and leave those N*'s to themselves. I was mortified and needless to say I have been thinking over this comment for weeks now and I cannot find any logical reason behind her comment. I think it is so sad that we still have these race issues. Were we not all created equal?
We like to think that racism doesn't exist anymore, but it does. It's sad, but it's a fact of life. What we haven't accepted yet is that it's reciprocal. I mean, my grandfather would die if I ever dated a black man (which I have secretly wanted to do but he's not taking my hints!). But my friend is black, and she's dating a white guy, and her parents are the ones who are "disappointed". Yes, racism exists, but that doesn't mean we have to be racist back.
That being said, I agree that biracial couples need more acceptance. There is absolutely nothing wrong with dating somebody of a different color skin. Yes, there will be some culture gaps, and yes, there will have to be give and take. But isn't that how it works in all relationships? Come on, people, let's start abiding by our Founding Fathers' ideas and treat everybody like they are created equal.