Images That Make You Stop.....And Think...

It's been 30 years believe it or not...

 

One thing I disagree with a lot of my young, liberal friends about is that I do think we've come a long way even if we aren't close to perfect yet, and this magazine you've linked to is a great example of that -- it treats interracial relationships as a risque, taboo topic.

I was born in 1988, and in my birth year, well under half of Americans approved of interracial marriage, at all. Greater than 50% of Americans still openly disapproved of the marriage I now share with my husband.



I am *also* young and liberal, but I just don't think a lot of other young women appreciate just how far we've come in so short a time. If you're even 25, you were alive when interracial marriage was disapproved of by most Americans!

I think it's possible to say we've still got to fight, and we still have a long way to go, without pretending like we haven't made any progress.

Hopefully, we will keep making progress, and by the time I'm very old, the 20 somethings of 2070 may not even believe that this was ever really a problem, the way I get weird faces when I tell people that my Catholic, Irish American great-grandmother got in a lot of trouble for marrying my Protestant, German-American great-grandfather in the early 20th century.