interracial relationships (moving, racist, rating)

[pa_yang]

i would like to know about how people feel about interracial relationships and if you'll ever be in one?

[SlyFrog]

Whee. More race crap on this board.

[Jaxx99]

Fine and sure.

[warmweather!]

Of course!!! Everyone is equal!! There is nothing wrong with people who have ancestors from different regions liking eachother. Personally, I like to see interracial marriages, etc. It makes me think of how society is becoming one, NOT black, white, and everyone else-it should be everyone together. To tell you the truth, I am white, and I've had a half white/half black girlfriend before! So yes, I approve.

[JenLee]

I don't notice color unless the person is throwing it in my face. I've never dated anyone of a different color/race because (except for B&W TV) I never even SAW a person of another color/race until I was over 21!

However, both of my kids have dated interracially and it hasn't mattered to us. The crux of the matter is if the people like and respect each other first. Base a relationship on THAT and nothing else matters.

[Minnehahapolitan]

In Minn., I find younger people are fine with them, but the elderly tend to give alot of stares. Some are outright condesending, but I think most simply aren't used to it. Probably more a feeling of something unknown than racist sentiment. It may be different elsewhere, but interracial relations were not common here even into the sixties and even seventies. Then again, we aren't Tupelo and you won't be confronted on the matter. That would no conform to the rule of Minnesota nice, which is actually a Sacndinavian affront and reserve. It is worse in more subexurban and rural areas than in the cities. These may be antiquated observations (I don't personally dwell much on the matter) but I feel they still somewhat exist. And that, while it doesn't put the state in the best light, that it should be mentioned. I personally don't care either way (that is a personal choice), however while I am quite liberal, my Midwestern conservative streak would make me uncomfortable in an interracial marriage. Hope this shed some light on your question.

[mel55880]

I'm in an interracial relationship! I'm in love with my future husband, he treats me with more respect then anyone I have ever been with (of any race) and I couldn't imagine myself with anyone else. I have never been happier, and in this game called life, that's the most important thing! There are good and bad people of all races!

After moving away to an area where I (a white woman) am a minority, I have seen racism from a completely different perspective. I find it disturbing that these questions would even be on a site such as this. We all bleed the same color blood! It's 2007 folks, when are we going to wake up and decide that race means nothing? We are all human and we need to unite and learn how to get along!

[kuan]

My wife and I are an interracial couple. We see plenty. In a coupla decades we'll all be brown and that's fine by me.

When my inlaws got married, Catholics did not marry Lutherans. We've come a long way since then.

[mel55880]

Originally Posted by kuan

My wife and I are an interracial couple. We see plenty. In a coupla decades we'll all be brown and that's fine by me.

When my inlaws got married, Catholics did not marry Lutherans. We've come a long way since then.

Yeah, we really have come a long way!

I know it'll get better with time, but it's so frustrating always having to ask how accepting such and such a location is about interracial couples.

It's so sad when I have to constantly worry about what my fiance will have to go through on his adjustment to the US and trying to explain to him about racism when he has never experienced it.

It's also sad that I don't even feel comfortable moving back to my hometown because people there are just so terribly racist! I just wonder if it's ever going to change!

[whatever]

Sounds like fun, but my wife wouldn't put up with me dating anyone.
I dated a Jamaican girl once, and a Puerto Rican girl too. But my lily-white wife was just too exotic to pass up. We don't see her kind that often down here in Miami.

Now if people would start searching the board for common questions instead of throwing the same bait in the water every week I'd roll my eyes a lot less.