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Originally posted by 2kids1headache
I would never hesitate to date someone outside my own race. I would hesitate to date someone outside my own religion (which is "keep your religion to yourself before I eat your baby".)
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LOL... it is because of posts like this that i love this board. where can i sign up to be converted, brother?
i'm a white guy and i've dated a rainbow collaltion, but i ended up marrying someone who matched my ethnicity. i guess we just meshed, and a lot of that was cultural common ground.
i was once living in jamaica and dating a local black girl, and we got harrassed mercilessly by local black men when we would go out in certiain neighborhoods. i also met a lot of racisim when i went through europe with a black girlfriend, actually getting into a fight with some really wasted finnish guys who just couldn't let it go.
my parents, although they are old school and pretty conservative, never posed much opposition to any one in particular. but they've seen a lot in their long lives and it takes a lot to phase them. they may have taken a different stance if they thought things were getting serious, but i imagine it would have just been more concern that a mixed relationship was going to have problems with other more pin-headed people in the world than their own racial hangups. on the other hand, i did have grandparents who were way uncool about it. my grandmother actually referred to black people as "darkies"...
shudder.
we are pretty much living through the transition in perspective on this issue. some states had actual laws against mixed marriages up until recently. when i think of all we have tried to undo about racism and discrimination, it absolutely amazes me that people are actually pushing for a constitutional amendment to keep gay people from marrying. no matter how far we have come, we still have so much farther to go. sometimes i think we will look back on this period of american history as one of our most shameful.