Interracial Dating in Atlanta metro area (Marietta: wedding, live, restaurant)

[packingnow4sure]

Originally Posted by sness88

Where are you folks at? How in the world is anyone supposed to meet people of another race and date them without feeling judged? Seems like everyone wants to stick to their own kind and not venture out.

I'll be graduating in 2010 and I just want to know where is a good place around Atlanta where interracial dating is easier than most places?

I know they say you limit yourself if you decide to only date w/in your race but in a place like Atlanta where its 55% why not be OPEN to all races including african american?
I'm just curious? I can't see how beneficial or practical it would be waiting for one person of a certain skin color to come along...i'm just saying why not be open to any race?

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by packingnow4sure

I know they say you limit yourself if you decide to only date w/in your race but in a place like Atlanta where its 55% why not be OPEN to all races including african american?
I'm just curious? I can't see how beneficial or practical it would be waiting for one person of a certain skin color to come along...i'm just saying why not be open to any race?

She has said she's open to all races...read further into the thread.

[brownhornet]

[sness88]

Originally Posted by aries4118

She has said she's open to all races...read further into the thread.

Thank you. I will not judge a man by his color.

[sness88]

?? Brownhornet Is this for me to laugh or for me to be insulted? I've had more difficulties with black people (of all people who are my own ethnicity!) in my past to care about being looked down upon

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by sness88

?? Brownhornet Is this for me to laugh or for me to be insulted? I've had more difficulties with black people (of all people who are my own ethnicity!) in my past to care about being looked down upon

As a person that is Black and grew up in an overwhelmingly White community, that is the case for Whites too. You are more likely to have difficulties with those that look like you do to generally being around those that look like you in terms of where you live, worship and go to school with, among other things. So, I wouldn't take personally and that is just a fact of life about the human condition.

I'll just say keep an open mind and no matter who you are with, you can still experience variety within your life.

By the way, here in Upstate NY, people generally don't care and there are plenty of jobs in your profession this way.

[Jimmeh]

Atlanta has such a big mix of cultures and races here. You are too far away if you aren't seeing it there.

[DeaconJ]

Originally Posted by Merin

We live in the Grant Park area people don't look at us twice. I am sad to say that those who feel the need to physically/vocally express their objection to my interracial marriage are usually black men. Whenever we go grocery shopping together, in a part of town with less integration, the check out person usually asks if our groceries are together. At first I was taken back by all of this, but now I am used to it.

You're always going to find ignorance in the world...I must do an excellent job at ignoring it, because I've dated outside my race many times and have never really noticed any disapproval from anybody. Maybe it's because I'm so attractive no one really noticed what color I am. That's probably it.

[west_end_don]

From an outsider’s perspective:
I'm in an interracial marriage (I'm white Canadian, my wife is black Canadian) and both my wife and I travel often to the states.
While you can find bigots and slack-jawed gawkers anywhere, I'd have to say Atlanta is the only city where we felt self-conscious of being IR.
We were with another couple (black) & even they commented on the stares we getting. I wouldn't say it was hostility, but we did feel people taking notice of us.
We've been to cities in NY/NJ/PA/MD/FLA and never really felt the way we did in Atlanta.
BTW: I did like your city overall. And there are some beautiful black women there too (not that I looked!).

[Merin]

Originally Posted by DeaconJ

You're always going to find ignorance in the world...I must do an excellent job at ignoring it, because I've dated outside my race many times and have never really noticed any disapproval from anybody. Maybe it's because I'm so attractive no one really noticed what color I am. That's probably it.

I am married not dating, therefore my husband and I are together most of the time, on the weekends. Its pretty easy to notice when someone is scowling at you shaking their head, tried to separate your groceries, and when you are given separate checks at restaurants.