We are on the rise guys

you are what you have to defend

 

It also states that people are more accepting compared to the 80's. the contradiction is where the study talk about do you care if a family member dated outside their race.

"Overall, the public perception of mixed marriages has only grown more positive. About 83 percent of Americans now say they think it's "all right" for blacks and whites to date one another; in 1987, only 48 percent of respondents agreed with the idea. Sixty-three percent now say it "would be fine" if a family member married someone from another race, and 61 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said that they felt interracial marriages were changing society "for the better." (Twenty-eight percent of respondents age 65 or older agreed.) According to the study, minorities, young adults, college-educated adults, and those who identify as "liberal" were most likely to look at interracial marriage in a positive way. "

now I stated before about the trust fund babies dating outside their race and yall got mad....even though it doesnt out right say it but the fact remains WW will have it harder than BM to date IR...hell the whole article proves my point

 

Your reading comprehension seriously astounds me. How on earth did you get that from the article especially the piece you quoted. And I'm gonna help you with some simple math right now. If white people make up 55 percent of this country and only the top 2 percent of the country is considered really wealthy(trust fund wealthy) how do you figure any ww dating a bm has more to lose? Don't send that bs out into the ether.

 

LOL. easy....first you twist and turn info to fit shit.

now let me help you. go back and read the article....it says that 83% accepts IR but when it hits home then the numbers drop. now what does that say to you

 

Face palm lol.

Dude the number didn't drop it was a comparison statistic between now and 1987. When's the last time you got some good sleep? Lol

 

naw read the part where it says 83% view IR to be ok...but then 63% if a family member does it

"Overall, the public perception of mixed marriages has only grown more positive. About 83 percent of Americans now say they think it's "all right" for blacks and whites to date one another; in 1987, only 48 percent of respondents agreed with the idea. Sixty-three percent now say it "would be fine" if a family member married someone from another race, and 61 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said that they felt interracial marriages were changing society "for the better."

 

Unfortunatly,the IR couples on the top are White men and Asian women.

 

I'd make another long post here, but I'll keep it short.

The article stated that the majority of interracial relationships occurred in the southern states in the United States, partially because there are a higher concentration of blacks in that region. So those people are correct to assume that there is less stability with black/white unions (including BM/WW and BW/WM), but the conclusion is focused primarily for that region of the country, not for the entire country regardless of where you are.

You could be in the northeast/mid-atlantic states and although there are less interracial relationships involving blacks there because the concentration of blacks is lower, that region of the country would have more tolerance for interracial relationships, and also gay relationships as well because they are more socially advanced than the south.

I know it sounds weird and people might disagree, but perhaps you should go in an area where there are less interracial relationships around, but the area has more social acceptance of it to have long term success with you and your s/o.

 

Just being ornery here - what do we consider Obama? Most of us refer to him as black, but he is mixed. It's confusing.

 

He's black. By the rules of this country he's black even though skin complexion wise he's as dark as a lot of Greek, Italians, and Middle Easterners. This racism shit is amazing. You have to tip your hat to how ingenius this shit is because smallest group on earth (people who are traditionally thought of as white) have some many people scrambling and fighting over skin tone.
But by our country's standard dude is black no matter what his mother is or who raised him but literally he's just a human like you and me.

 

This. And if you have any doubt that this is true, then think about all the racial venom both the blatant stuff & the stuff that people try to pass off as "mere jokes", that have been toss at this man since before he even got into office, never mind the unprecedented disrespect to the office he holds.

 

Ok, but you said in the prior post that no one here (and there are others who think like we do, right?) thinks that children of mixed parentage are black only. But we consider Obama black.... Or is that just easier than saying he's mixed?

 

hmmm so what "colour" would we consider

alicia keys
lenny kravitz
mariah carey
rashida jones

????

 

Most of us here who have the common sense to acknowledge that the man is of mixed parentage both see and acknowledge this (especially those of us who have mixed children), but it still does not take away the fact that simply due to one of his parents being Black he still is looked upon as being Black. When he is called "Black" here it's not to negate his White parentage, its more to illustrate how American society makes issue of race. At least that's how I see it.

 

See post below this one.

 

gotcha. isn't it also down to how the individual of the mixed parentage prefers to be seen or who they relate to?

i find all of this intriguing. humans are strange creatures with their need to box people into certain categories

 

Yes that can play a part, especially if a child or children are only ever exposed to one side of their heritage. Some times they are exposed to one side and as they get older and have opportunities to be exposed to the side they have not been exposed, they may start to relate to that side more because they may relate to some of the things of that side of their parentage better.

 

If a biracial individual chooses to identify as neither, so do I.
If they call themselves Black which most do, so do I.

If they say they identify more as White, if they have to tell me at first sight they are 'White', I just let it go!lol

But I personally recognize biracial people as equally Black and White which is all good.

I had an awful experience in college years ago in a dining hall when I was off on a rant about the global oppression and racial hegemony of White folks, when a 'Black' girl at the table started crying uncontrollably.
Found out that day that her mom was White and I learned later that I needed to check myself before assuming I knew someone else's personal history.:smt018

 

obama is mixed.

he's only black because the one drop rule is still stuck in your head. this is 2012, not 1960. the overwhelming majority of americans know that this country has far too many combinations for most people to label somebody as one thing or another

for example, i am mixed. the question i get is what is your background, if somebody asks me. compare that question back to the 60's with jim crow, and they would've just said he's black.

people dont label for the most part anymore since they understand society has changed since the 50's.

If you want to live with the victim mentality, fine by me. For all I know you were raised that way, and that's all you know.

Don't try and peddle that crap though and assume most people are too stupid to understand the complexities of individuals in a global society.

The mixed population is the fastest growing population in the US and will continue to grow.

Your children, if you have them with a non black, will be mixed, not black.

 

If have kids they will be black because they will be treated as such and brainwashing them to believe otherwise is setting them up for a shit ton of disappointment. If you want to be bone dry literal there is no such thing as black white or mixed just human but our society doesn't work that way. Its all divisionist rhetoric meant to instill false superiority and resentful inferiority.