.....thinking carefully here, because I truly do not want to send the wrong message.
First of all..I AM DEAD set against interracial dating and marriages but I do NOT consider myself a racist. I have had black friends, good friends in fact. I think in todays world, to have a white/black frienship, a certain amount of lighthearted humor is needed about the obvious differences in the way blacks and whites live their lives. HOWEVER....due to what I have witnessed, and the knowledgebase I have accumulated personally, I am dead set against interracial dating. I am going to make some statements, and they will sound full of hate and prejudice, but they are what I have witnessed and they are the basis for MY believes.
THere is a LARGE element of the black youth (and I know...whites to a degree also), that look at personal/sexual relationships in an entirely different manner than what I believe to be morally decent. Take a walk through any mall and you will see a large contingent of black men with white girls. This is not a racist statement...this is FACT. Now observe how many white men with black girls? Not many are there? Now ...if you listen carefully you may be surprised at how the white girls are treated. It is not at all uncommon to hear them referred to as "bitches", hoes, or whatever degrading term they so choose to use. I guess I should clarify here, that the "type" of black person (and to a degree some white kids) I'm referring to, talks like this ALL the time, so its really not a shock to hear them talking to their "girlfriends" like this. But it DOES disgust me. Watch some of the Gangsta Rap videos and its a no-brainer to understand why this type of behavior is 2nd nature to a lot of them. More and more white girls, now see it as "cool", or "hip" to be with a black guy of this type, and they are more than willing to sacrifice any moral backbone they may have had, to be just like their idols. They will often brag to their friends about the sexual prowness of their lovers, and often crusade to bring their friends into the interracial "dating" culture. I'm not making this up, and its not Racist...I have witnessed it and unfortunately have lived it.
Secondly...and more importantly is what about the children??? Whether they like it or not, the children of interracial marriages are brought into this world at an instant disadvantage. I think it is totally selfish to think that a child will not suffer the consequences of your decision to make babies together. Right or wrong, the child will grow up having to deal with problems that go with it. He/she did not have a choice.
So.....hence my "inclusion" of interracial dating as ONE of the many things wrong with todays youth culture.
I'm going on break now, having coffee with Jimmy, a very large extrememly pleasant black man.
