blackascoal
The Force is With Me
Wow. Not to be a parrot, but that was a great post.
Thank you Sister T.
Wow. Not to be a parrot, but that was a great post.
Not all of them are humorous . . . as I'm sure you know.Anyone who has the FEAR, and that's what it is, of black/white relationships should never, ever travel to Seattle. No place in America has more interracial relationships than Seattle, but this partly due to its proximity to Canada. Canadiens don't come with the same fears and phobias that Americans have.
Number 3 on the list of most interracial would be Minneapolis, home of Prince.
Of course number 1 and 2 would be Seattle. I've never been to Houston but I can imagine.
Obama is not going to help those who have the fear.
I have a 16 year old bi-racial son who lives in Arizona. Bi-racial children present some interesting and often quite humourous challenges .. like his mother trying to braid his hair.
Wow, this is really a shocker......I mean, I can't believe this stunning revelation. Knuckle-dragging redneck hicks don't approve of inter racial marriage. Who would have thought? Listening to you and Dixie, I was under the impression that blacks and whites had daily sing alongs, were color blind and voted for one another.
And one more thing............NO SHIT SHERLOCK. Yet somehow when I say it, its wrong?
WM: "The one thing that still gets me is that a lot of people are freaked out by black-white marriages, though it isn't spoken about. I know most of the people in the my group of friends disagreed with me whenever I plainly told them I found nothing wrong with it."
Fascinating.
I know that I live in liberal la-la land, but I've never noticed anyone here who is publicly uncomfortable with inter-racial dating. In fact, I've never enev heard the n-word uttered publicly here, since I moved back here from Texas (where hearing that word was fairly commonplace). Not to say there aren't racists here - just that they're more marginalized than in the south.
There could also be the rural/urban/class element involved. In Houston, I had an girlfriend of color, and I never noticed any dirty looks or whispered comments in Houston. Of course, I was mostly around a more educated, suburban and professional crowd.
Unfortunately, they also maintain a slave mentality. Generations of conditioning of those too afraid to leave the plantation. It highlights the differences between northern and southern Afican-American attitudes and perspectives.
Not all of them are humorous . . . as I'm sure you know.
My half sister is "bi-racial" and I wouldn't want to trade places with her. She had a lot of problems in school; there are few things in this world more cruel than a teenager.
My half sister is "bi-racial" and I wouldn't want to trade places with her. She had a lot of problems in school; there are few things in this world more cruel than a teenager.
Morgan Freeman and Oprah both came from the delta, I believe. No one's afraid to "leave the plantation", it's just they've been there all their life and everyone loves home. I'm sure they're happier than the people on the grey, bland streets working at the factories 9-8. I've been to the city before and there wasn't a moment more depressing in my entire life.
Interestingly enough, William Faulkner also came from around there.
Everyone from Mississippi has a sort of love-hate relationship with the state. I've always said the reason so many brilliant people come from here is because it's such a shithole.
Really? When I was in school I had plenty of biracial friends and I don't think anyone really made fun of them any more than any one else. As a matter of fact the only thing I can recall were a few oreo comments that they self-depricatingly made about themselves a lot of the time.
A lot of them are "handsome and pretty", like Halle Berry, Prince, Obama .. and Marcus .. my son. Keeping him focused on education and the girls off him is a full time job. Girls had no such fascination about me when I was in high school. Any dates I got .. oh wait .. I never had a date in high school until my prom .. and she was 32 .. another long and sordid story that I'm sure no one wants to hear.
Growing up, I never imagined myself living anywhere in the south. For me, the United States ended at the Mason-Dixon line. Beyond that, one would venture into the lands of dragons and monsters. I live in Atlanta now, but it has vastly changed, most of which is due to the influx of northern blacks moving here who were not about to settle for "chittlins".
You're preaching to the choir about the Mason-Dixon line. I've often said that. And from what I understand the progressiveness you speak of in Atlanta drops off as soon as you hit rural Georgia.
Actually this reminds me of something my mother told me about. She was helping my aunt who lived in rural Georgia move a year or so ago with one of her good friends we "affectionately" refer to as "Bonnie the racist". She was a knuckle-dragging southern hick, (like many from Watermark's part of the woods), that had the audacity to use the n-word in reference to some elected official in front of my mother and aunt. My guess is this was her on good behaviour. Who knows what she says behind closed doors........actually, I have an idea.
LOL, alright. spill the beans. Why were you dating/molested readit: ) by a 32 y/o?
Many people reject the mixed race nature of people. My wife has been told numerous times by white people that she's just black to them. Black people have given her a tough time about her lighter skin. And it's hard growing up black in a family that is all white as her father abandoned her.
Our daugher being tri-racial will inevitably face difficulty as well and I dread the day she comes home crying because someone said an awful thing to her. But this is the reality we must face. We at least feel some solace though since we both will understand how she feels and be able to support her through it as well as our son.
I haven't travelled to the south only down to Virginia. But from what my wife has told me we would not be appreciated as a couple there.
Being Bi-racial is a different experience for people depending on who you are. I have been always treated as being monoracial however which race I am would depend on who you ask.
Many people reject the mixed race nature of people. My wife has been told numerous times by white people that she's just black to them. Black people have given her a tough time about her lighter skin. And it's hard growing up black in a family that is all white as her father abandoned her.
As for me it was also difficult as my mother didn't grow up here and back home things are very homogeneous so she didn't have as much familiarily with racism as I had to face growing up.
Our daugher being tri-racial will inevitably face difficulty as well and I dread the day she comes home crying because someone said an awful thing to her. But this is the reality we must face. We at least feel some solace though since we both will understand how she feels and be able to support her through it as well as our son.