I
am pleasantly surprised at my findings through the research that I have done on
Interracial marriage and dating. It seems that we, as a society, are changing
our thoughts and opinions about interracial marriage and dating. The trend is
moving forward in accepting mixed race marriages and couples. There has been
evidence shown from the Pew Research Institute supporting the trend. I feel
that we will continue on this trend to share equality among all races. It will
take some time, but it is within our sights. Perhaps, two generations from now
we will need to be accepting of the newly created mixed races. We will not be
able to visually distinguish so easily between races. It is happening already
as shown in the video of the couple that gave birth to twins, one black and one
white baby. As an example the black baby carries genes that can promote the
birth of a white baby. As the child grows older and starts their own family,
they might partner with a black person and still have a white baby. Our future
is surely going to be different due to the interracial marriages and children.
There still is prejudice and discrimination in the United States, but I do feel
it will be less and less as the generations continue to grow.
I
had a few couples that I knew personally which were going to share their
stories of discrimination with me. I didn’t get the feedback I was requesting.
Unfortunately, I can’t provide much information of this detail from my sources.
What was offered to me was that they did feel their own family was harder on
them then society. Their parents were very critical of the relationships. This
was the case in both couples that I communicated with. Some parents even turned
off communications with the child. They forbid the relationship. The two
relationships were white women with black men. One white woman commented that
when the couple would go out together she would get these dirty looks from
black women. She felt that the looks were meant to pass the message, what are
you doing with him he is one of ours. Whether the message she felt coming
through the dirty looks was correct or not we do not know. Clearly the white
woman had these feelings after receiving the dirty looks. A black man in the interracial
relationship felt bad that communications were stopped between the woman and
her family. He felt that it bothered his partner, but she denied this. She
wants to live her life as she chooses and be with however she loves. Race is
not an issue for her.
I
stumbled on a diamond in the rough in my research. The website www.lovingday.org. The rough was all the
negative stories and comments about interracial marriages and the diamond was
this website. I chose to focus a great deal of attention to the website to show
that there are many people out there that are living their lives without
prejudice against other races. There is an outlet for those that want to learn
more or try to understand the people engaged in interracial relationships. This
June 12th another Loving Day will be celebrated. Check your things
to do calendar in your community; there might be a celebration near you.
