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My husband who is black and I (white)are planning to move to Charlotte from Minneapolis. Although we know that whereever you go there is bound to be someone who does not approve. We wanted to prepare ourselves for the level of tolerance and acceptance in this area of the country. Could you share your perspective on this based on your experiences? Thank You
Please do a search. There are a million threads on this. To summarize: you will do fine. A very few azzes might say something, very very few, and you should not care what those jerks say or think. You all will be fine. Good Luck.
I highly doubt anyone notices, or that you will have a problem (nor are ANY of us really a judge of how any certain demographic will react). The only time I've come across people of color or interracial relationships having a problem is when they have an insecurity issue themselves (or they have a false perception that other people are racist simply because they are of a differing race than another). Most people do not find novelty in racially diverse relationships anymore (at least not here, or in CA). It's only when one race points a finger at another race for being racist when they aren't racist at all it becomes a problem.
You'll be just fine here... providing that you as individual personalities are friendly yourselves. Regardless of race, et. al., no one likes an unfriendly person.
The more rural the area the less acceptance you will find, but in any of NC's cities it shouldn't be that much of a problem.
Your response is the most accurate of the ones posted so far. I can speak from experience. Parts of Johnston County are ok and others clearly aren't. Best advice is for the OP to have a real estate agent who is sensitive to. Also remember it is just not White folk who can be intolerant towards but also Black folk.
The OP is moving to Charlotte. I agree with all the posts above. sharonekd, you will be just fine, with or without a realtor's help. Have you visited Charlotte before?
I see many mixed couples every Sunday at church. I had to think about it before I posted though, because it is just not something I notice anymore. People are people. God loves all of us.
I don't live in NC but I have some experience from living in GA...so I'd say don't worry about it.
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