Interracial Marriages Surge Across U.S.

[danarhea]

As someone who has a racially mixed extended family (black sister in law, 2 black nephews, and my mother was a Jew who married an Irishman), this interests me.

In 1967, the Supreme Court knocked down a Virginia law which barred whites from marrying non-whites. 40 years later, a full 7% of marriages in the United States are of mixed race.

Yes, there is still rascism in the US, but it is dying fast, and statistically, the mixing of races will continue. The way I see it, with race mixing, races will die out, along with the rascism that goes with having separate races of people. By the time the next millennium arrives, if we have not destroyed ourselves by then, there will be only one color of skin in the world - Gold.

Article is here.

 

[Hatuey]

As someone who has a racially mixed extended family (black sister in law, 2 black nephews, and my mother was a Jew who married an Irishman), this interests me.

In 1967, the Supreme Court knocked down a Virginia law which barred whites from marrying non-whites. 40 years later, a full 7% of marriages in the United States are of mixed race.

Yes, there is still rascism in the US, but it is dying fast, and statistically, the mixing of races will continue. The way I see it, with race mixing, races will die out, along with the rascism that goes with having races of people. By the time the next millennium arrives, if we have not destroyed ourselves by then, there will be only one color of skin in the world - Gold.

Article is here.

It's days like this that I'm proud to be an American.

 

[americanwoman]

cool news! Thanks D for finding this.

:2wave:

 

[Spartacus FPV]

As a person of color, I find the idea of everyone being of the same race... boring. I like the buffet our little melting pot produces.

Long live the blond bombshell, the nubian princess, the asian mistress and the lovely latinas.

 

[danarhea]

As a person of color, I find the idea of everyone being of the same race... boring. I like the buffet our little melting pot produces.

Long live the blond bombshell, the nubian princess, the asian mistress and the lovely latinas.

I agree with you on that point. There is beauty in all races, but with globalization, individual races will eventually die out. Statistically, that is a given. If most marriages are based on love, it is a given that love itself extends across racial lines, and that is what will eventually doom individual races. Unfortunately, much of the beauty that is inherent in the individual races will disappear. The good part of that, of course, is that it will also doom racial hatred. Call it the next step in the evolution of the human race.

 

[PeteEU]

Not bad.

However a ban on interracial marriage has been part of several states constitutions until very recently (might still be.. have not checked all).. 1998 South Carolina finally removed it. I think the Mississippi constitution was amended in the late 1980s by a very narrow margin after a referendum... which alone is shocking. Granted they could not inforce the bans, but the whole idea that such bans were in place 20 to 30 years after they were deemed illegal, kinda is shocking.

Racisim might be going "down" but I doubt its because of an attitude change among "racists", but more a natural selection change.. racists dieing off.

All in all, good news.

But would love to see the numbers based on regions and cities.. I think those numbers would show interesting things.

 

[Southern Belle]

As a person of color, I find the idea of everyone being of the same race... boring. I like the buffet our little melting pot produces.

Long live the blond bombshell, the nubian princess, the asian mistress and the lovely latinas.

I was gonna say this, I thought the point of the melting pot was to HAVE all these different things. Everyone is supposed to be different, and we should enjoy differences. It is NOT good if everyone turns gold and let race features die. Isn't this the reason why segregation is bad and they stress multicultualism?

 

[danarhea]

I was gonna say this, I thought the point of the melting pot was to HAVE all these different things. Everyone is supposed to be different, and we should enjoy differences. It is NOT good if everyone turns gold and let race features die. Isn't this the reason why segregation is bad and they stress multicultualism?

1) If everyone is the same, then segregation does not exist, and the concept itself no longer has meaning.

2) It does not matter if people stress differences. It might to many, but lets do a little mind exercise. Let's say you stress differences. I am not saying that is a good thing or a bad thing, although you are stressing the good in differences, but bear in mind that others do stress the bad. Would your children feel the same as you? How about your children's children? How about 50 generations of children? It only takes one child out of 50 generations of children to believe that mixed marriage is such as good thing that he or she will involve themselves in it, and marry outside of one's race. Instead of thinking what it is like now, think of the year 3,000 if we make it that far. In that day, I strongly believe that racial differences would have all but completely disappeared.

Yes, the differences which are good will have faded away, but let's take a look at that other person who stresses the bad in other races but his own. He will have also completely faded away because his descendants will have become what he hates. I cannot think of a more fitting end to people who have that kind of a hateful mentality.

 

[Southern Belle]

1) If everyone is the same, then segregation does not exist, and the concept itself no longer has meaning.

2) It does not matter if people stress differences. It might to many, but lets do a little mind exercise. Let's say you stress differences. I am not saying that is a good thing or a bad thing, although you are stressing the good in differences, but bear in mind that others do stress the bad. Would your children feel the same as you? How about your children's children? How about 50 generations of children? It only takes one child out of 50 generations of children to believe that mixed marriage is such as good thing that he or she will involve themselves in it, and marry outside of one's race. Instead of thinking what it is like now, think of the year 3,000 if we make it that far. In that day, I strongly believe that racial differences would have all but completely disappeared.

Yes, the differences which are good will have faded away, but let's take a look at that other person who stresses the bad in other races but his own. He will have also completely faded away because his descendants will have become what he hates. I cannot think of a more fitting end to people who have that kind of a hateful mentality.

Yes I get what you're saying. I just find it funny they say it'll be great when everyone's gold but Hitler wanted to make everyone blond and blue eyed and everyone freaked out.

As for me, I like a rainbow. :2grouphug

 

[Stinger]

Not bad.

However a ban on interracial marriage has been part of several states constitutions

But not enforced since the 60's. Most of the removing from constitutions has be done after the fact.

 

[Hatuey]

Yes I get what you're saying. I just find it funny they say it'll be great when everyone's gold but Hitler wanted to make everyone blond and blue eyed and everyone freaked out.

As for me, I like a rainbow. :2grouphug

Are you comparing Hitlers thirst for the extermination of other races to interracial marriage? If so...thats quite a jump.

 

[Southern Belle]

Are you comparing Hitlers thirst for the extermination of other races to interracial marriage? If so...thats quite a jump.

Yeah I know, and I only meant that either way would bring the same result, and it was just a bit funny to me that people praise one and condemn the other. I mean I don't have anything against interracial marages for people that want to, heck, my grandmother is half cherokee with the complexion (very pretty btw) but, you for example, said you were proud to be an American after the paragraph when everyone's skin is gold. My view is just that every ethnicity has some beautiful features and we should try to perserve them all.

If they do disappear how sad.

 

[1069]

Interracial Marriages Surge Across U.S.

Good. From a biological perspective, diversity in the gene pool is always a positive thing for the race... the human race.

 

[Hatuey]

Yeah I know, and I only meant that either way would bring the same result, and it was just a bit funny to me that people praise one and condemn the other. I mean I don't have anything against interracial marages for people that want to, heck, my grandmother is half cherokee with the complexion (very pretty btw) but, you for example, said you were proud to be an American after the paragraph when everyone's skin is gold. My view is just that every ethnicity has some beautiful features and we should try to perserve them all.

If they do disappear how sad.

People condemn Hitler because he was trying to exterminate races. Making love to somebody of a different race and having a mixed baby because of it is a far cry from wanting to eliminate another race on purpose.

 

[1069]

People condemn Hitler because he was trying to exterminate races. Making love to somebody of a different race and having a mixed baby because of it is a far cry from wanting to eliminate another race on purpose.

Indeed; what an absurd and insulting analogy.
Unintentional, no doubt, but still. Good God. :roll:

I understand Southern Belle was badly mistreated by bullies at school, but I wonder if some of it wasn't brought on by her appalling propensity for putting her foot in it.

 

[Southern Belle]

People condemn Hitler because he was trying to exterminate races. Making love to somebody of a different race and having a mixed baby because of it is a far cry from wanting to eliminate another race on purpose.

Yeah I know, hitler was a freak.

It was just a slight observation, is all. I thought "They lead to the same thing"

 

[1069]

Yeah I know, hitler was a freak.

It was just a slight observation, is all. I thought "They lead to the same thing"

Genocide and Hatuey (or you, for that matter) are not "the same thing".

But it has occurred to me that the reason the white man has traditionally resisted race mixing so fervently- to the extent of passing segregation laws and laws against "miscegenation", etc- is because, superficially, darker physical characteristics tend to dominate when whites mix with other races.
This is true even with white people, as far as eye and hair color; darker genes are dominant.
But one would have to be very primitive to believe that skin tone (or eye color or hair color) is actually relevant, in the grand scheme of things.
White genes are not "swallowed up", subjugated, or consumed by race mixing.
They are still there, still very much present (but not necessarily visible to the naked eye).
Stronger, better, healthier, more efficient genes dominate. It's called evolution.
Brown eyes work better than pale eyes, which are photosensitive and probably began as some form of mutation.
Who cares which society deems, at any given time, to be more aesthetically pleasing?
Evolution doesn't care, that's for sure.

 

[Southern Belle]

Genocide and Hatuey (or you, for that matter) are not "the same thing".

But it has occurred to me that the reason the white man has traditionally resisted race mixing so fervently- to the extent of passing segregation laws and laws against "miscegenation", etc- is because, superficially, darker physical characteristics tend to dominate when whites mix with other races.
This is true even with white people, as far as eye and hair color; darker genes are dominant.
But one would have to be very primitive to believe that skin tone (or eye color or hair color) is actually relevant, in the grand scheme of things.
White genes are not "swallowed up", subjugated, or consumed by race mixing.
They are still there, still very much present (but not necessarily visible to the naked eye).
Stronger, better, healthier, more efficient genes dominate. It's called evolution.
Brown eyes work better than pale eyes, which are photosensitive and probably began as some form of mutation.
Who cares which society deems, at any given time, to be more aesthetically pleasing?
Evolution doesn't care, that's for sure.

I didn't say they WERE the same thing, I said they WOULD LEAD TO the same thing: Everyone looking the same. Did I say both were bad? Did I say Hitler's way was just as legitiment? Heck did I say Hitler's way was good at all? No. I just mentioned that both would lead to the same thing.

 

[PeteEU]

But not enforced since the 60's. Most of the removing from constitutions has be done after the fact.

As I stated. Just odd that it took 30 years for some, and in some cases barely passed a statewide referendum

 

[1069]

I didn't say they WERE the same thing, I said they WOULD LEAD TO the same thing: Everyone looking the same. Did I say both were bad? Did I say Hitler's way was just as legitiment? Heck did I say Hitler's way was good at all? No. I just mentioned that both would lead to the same thing.

Again, sticking your foot in a big pile of dogshit.
Do all brown-skinned people "look the same" to you?
Do all white people?
What makes you think that if all people were an amalgamation of all races, we'd all "look the same"?
It seems to me that the possibilities for individual diversity of appearance would be even broader than they are now.

 

[PeteEU]

People condemn Hitler because he was trying to exterminate races. Making love to somebody of a different race and having a mixed baby because of it is a far cry from wanting to eliminate another race on purpose.

Infact racial purity laws were common place in the US and other European states in early part of the 20th century. For example forced sterilisations of homeless, orphans and others (often non whites). In fact it was Sweden and the US that were on the forefront of said racial purity laws. They became "unpopular" after WW2 to some extent, but quite a few countries including Sweden, the US, Denmark continued up to the mid and late 1970s with forced serilizations of certain groups of the populations.

 

[Southern Belle]

Again, sticking your foot in a big pile of dogshit.
Do all brown-skinned people "look the same" to you?
Do all white people?
What makes you think that if all people were an amalgamation of all races, we'd all "look the same"?
It seems to me that the possibilities for individual diversity of appearance would be even broader than they are now.

If everyone's skin is gold there would be no more pale or tanned caucasion or deep dark black, or anything. One thing they taught us in school was that the blackest black people were purplish-blue black, but you never see any of them in America. Why? Because the slave owners breeded it out.

Anyone know if they still are in Africa?

I can never guess your stance on anything, 10, you always surprise me... I was saying I LIKE all the different stuff, I thought that was good? The mentioned of everyone turning to gold, just reminded me of when Hitler tried to make the world white. :shock: :spin:

 

[1069]

If everyone's skin is gold there would be no more pale or tanned caucasion or deep dark black, or anything. One thing they taught us in school was that the blackest black people were purplish-blue black, but you never see any of them in America. Why? Because the slave owners breeded it out.

Anyone know if they still are in Africa?

I can never guess your stance on anything, 10, you always surprise me... I was saying I LIKE all the different stuff, I thought that was good? The mentioned of everyone turning to gold, just reminded me of when Hitler tried to make the world white. :shock: :spin:

How the *bleep* is everybody's skin gonna be frickin' gold, Belle???
Everybody's skin would be more different colors than everybody's skin is now if we were all an amalgamation of all races. There'd be more variance and a wider spectrum.
Look, white people are always going to be this shade of pink or that shade of pink.
Black people are always gonna be this shade of brown or that shade of brown.
If we were all amalgamations, every individual could be any shade.

But even, hypothetically, if they weren't, and even if every single one of us turned out exactly the shade of an old crumpled-up paper bag, what possible difference would that make, if we were all stronger and healthier (diversity always strengthens gene pools in the long term)?

 

[Southern Belle]

How the *bleep* is everybody's skin gonna be frickin' gold, Belle???
Everybody's skin would be more different colors than everybody's skin is now if we were all an amalgamation of all races. There'd be more variance and a wider spectrum.
Look, white people are always going to be this shade of pink or that shade of pink.
Black people are always gonna be this shade of brown or that shade of brown.
If we were all amalgamations, every individual could be any shade.

But even, hypothetically, if they weren't, and even if every single one of us turned out exactly the shade of an old crumpled-up paper bag, what possible difference would that make, if we were all stronger and healthier (diversity always strengthens gene pools in the long term)?

Oops...I had thought dana had quoted a piece of the article...I thought the mention of skin turning to gold was IN the article...:shock: But that was dana's own words wasn't it? :3oops: I'm sorry.

You're saying that even if everyone gets mixed there will still be different shades? Will there be blonde hair and blue eyes?

Still what about the blue-black complexion that got erased?

 

[rathi]

Continued intermixing of our current "races" would not give everyone the same skin color. The amount of variation possible in different gene combinations that control skin color is immense. Predicting what the population as a whole would look like is nearly impossible, given that you would have to guess what characteristics the population that bred the most had.

Still, it would nice to get rid of the idea that race in terms of physical differences actually exist. It would prove to the public that culture matters and skin color does not.

Not to mention that from an extremely unscientific and purely personal side, mixed race people tend to be quite attractive.