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It wasn't a matter of turning down people based on ethnicity but more of being attracted to.
I have always loved British/Celtic men. I don't like swarthy, dark skinned men as a type. Although my background includes Italian I never liked those type men.
I knew I would marry someone 'English or Irish or Scottish.'
Sure, if you want to generalize it that way. A black girl asked me out in school one time and I said "no thanks". All her friends called me a racist, but I guess my personal opinion and preference didn't matter, just the fact that I'm white and she is black.
Never rejected anyone due to ethnicity. Cultural traits, physical attractiveness, personality, yes. But ethnicity? Lame if you ask me. Had the parents of one girl I dated even remark that I was good-looking, smart, but the wrong color. Utter nonsense.
Never rejected anyone due to ethnicity. Cultural traits, physical attractiveness, personality, yes. But ethnicity? Lame if you ask me. Had the parents of one girl I dated even remark that I was good-looking, smart, but the wrong color. Utter nonsense.
Maybe her parents were hoping for grandchildren that would look like them. There's nothing wrong with wanting that imo. I've been shown many family portraits and photo albums where people pointed out how one member looked like one from another family generation. Having the same colour eyes, hair or nose. It's about family pride, family history and a sense of belonging.
Baloney. Sounds like a another reason that anti-miscegenist Justice of the Peace in Louisiana would give. "Generational pride" is nothing more than a smokescreen for what I'd consider to be an extreme form of narcissism, exclusion, and selfishness. Race is nothing more than one trait among others. Moralizing it is beyond insane.
Baloney. Sounds like a another reason that anti-miscegenist Justice of the Peace in Louisiana would give. "Generational pride" is nothing more than a smokescreen for what I'd consider to be an extreme form of narcissism, exclusion, and selfishness. Race is nothing more than one trait among others. Moralizing it is beyond insane.
I'm sorry for you that you don't have pride in your black history and heritage, and no desire to continue it. Not all of us want a day in the future where everyone looks alike and has the same brown skin tone.
I'm sorry for you that you don't have pride in your black history and heritage, and no desire to continue it. Not all of us want a day in the future where everyone looks alike and has the same brown skin tone.
More baloney. You, the athiest in a childless interracial relationship is the last one to talk to me about my inherent "moral duty" to prolong my racial heritage. I had no stake in being black, and am no more "proud" of it than I am proud of being born a man. Of course I'm not at all sorry about it either, despite society's attempts to render me so by making me somehow accountable for everything wrong with black America by association. That I happen to have an open mind with regards to the ethnicity of those I find compatible in no way makes me any "less black", nor does it constitute any sort of "betrayal" on my part to the black community at large.
Besides, everyone alive today will be thousands of years dead before anything even remotely comparable to a universal coalescence of the races begins to take place. And when (if) it does, what difference will it make to you or I, a bunch of decaying fossils?
Last edited by MrSykes; 10-18-2009 at 05:06 PM..
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