Final Thoughts

               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 12^th another Loving Day will be celebrated. Check your things to do calendar in your community; there might be a celebration near you.