White woman-black man love & cowardly America (statistics, Sacramento, best)

[Roaddog]

Originally Posted by camping!

I didn't realize this was still an issue. Where I live there are many IR couples. I don't know of a single person who is either shocked or appalled by this.

same here, I see black/white couples and I've never seen anyone standing to the side pointing at them, I don't think it's a big deal to to many people.

[sassyone]

If the couples are happy, that should be all that counts, interracial should not make any difference.
Sassy

[malamute]

Originally Posted by zoot

Why is America still so chicken and scared to accept love & sex between a white woman (esp. attractive) and a black man; or any other colored man for that matter. Even to this day such a pair holding hands in public is enough to scare the c**p out of most Americans?

Is the baggage from its rabid Jim Crow past still so heavy in this day & age??

Print, cable and Hollywood simply won't touch the topic or even show a black guy kissing a white girl on screen (only sparingly). They'll even show 2 men kissing, but never the above mentioned.

Whats your opinion??

Where do you live that it's even an issue?

I've lived in quite a few places -- and I don't think anyone really cares that much -- much less are scared. There can be other reasons that people observe a particular couple -- sometimes an attractive couple, mixed race or not will be watched, sometimes the way someone dresses or behaves gets them more attention than someone else.

You mentioned a mixed race couple when the woman is attractive -- and maybe people tend to glance over for that reason because attractive women tend to get attention.

[Tricky D]

Originally Posted by dunkel25

People like and dislike things for any number of reasons and belief systems have any number of root causes.

But if these people were not insecure it would not matter.
So interracial relations only matter to insecure people. I believe that the cause for this is the feeling of losing control.
Whenever people feel the loss of control they isolate themselves (into themselves or their culture) which fuels insecurity, fear of the unknown etc.

[Senator Palpatein]

Keep in mind, these scenarios don't work out well in the end.

Case in point:

OJ Simpson decapitates his white wife.

One guy got angry at his white wife and dismembered her.

Another guy, who was a cop, killed his white wife and baby.

There's lots of stories like this.

If you're not bothering to do the research and just
basing your beliefs on assumptions how can you know?

Just over the last couple of days, 2 beautiful white girls
were murdered.

I knew one English guy who was going out with a very attractive black woman and he constantly had black men threatening him with violence for going out with this woman.

Maybe the public at large knows the real story.

[Nietzschean Gangsta]

Originally Posted by miu

But I do applaud this statement of yours. And I am reminded of the time my boyfriend told me about a black co-worker who had just gone to a Japanese import car show, admired the Asians models and expressed a desire to "get himself one of them". My boyfriend took offense at what he said, as did a Vietnamese co-worker.

Oh yeah, because we all know that white men have never expressed that same kind of feeling about Asian women.

[jrod2828]

Here's a better question..

Why do you never see a black girl with a white guy?

[Nietzschean Gangsta]

Originally Posted by dunkel25

Sometimes it might, but not necessarily. There are probably many, many reasons for racism. I'm just pointing out that you can't just boil it down to one of a few possible causes. People like and dislike things for any number of reasons and belief systems have any number of root causes. Dismissively saying that someone can only be racist because of ignorance, insecurity, or fear (or any other single, negatively viewed cause), I think, is just a way to justify attacks on the target of the accusation and to avoid any real substantive argument.

Um...NO!! Insecurity is the root cause of racism, from that point and only from that point does it diverge into a whole complex of other issues. If you disagree please offer other alternatives. I mean it shouldn't be too hard you said that there are "many, many reason for racism."

I'll be waiting.

[Nietzschean Gangsta]

Originally Posted by jrod2828

Here's a better question..

Why do you never see a black girl with a white guy?

I do, plenty of times, everyday. But I live in the New York City metro area, it might be different where you live.

[LuckyGem]

Originally Posted by zoot

Why is America still so chicken and scared to accept love & sex between a white woman (esp. attractive) and a black man; or any other colored man for that matter. Even to this day such a pair holding hands in public is enough to scare the c**p out of most Americans?

Is the baggage from its rabid Jim Crow past still so heavy in this day & age??

Print, cable and Hollywood simply won't touch the topic or even show a black guy kissing a white girl on screen (only sparingly). They'll even show 2 men kissing, but never the above mentioned.

Whats your opinion??

It's not my business, it's not my right to tell someone who they can or cannot date. It's their life, and I think they should live it anywhichway they want. Mixed culture couples don't bother me at all.