Even my liberal parents were not totally on board at the beginning. It works out.
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I've had four black girlfriends in my life, two were just the kind of thing where we looked at each other and "hot damn", one was semi-serious, and one was super serious. I like to THINK that my folks were sort of liberal and understanding but when they got wind of Gwendolyn-the-super-serious black girlfriend, they were up in arms.
I brought her home anyway, and they liked her, how could you not, she was just that cool, but I was bombarded with "do you understand what you will be putting your children through and what you both will face?"
I told them, "that is society's problem, not OUR problem, society has a problem, and society needs to FIX their problem instead of us having to accommodate their problem for their sake."
Gwen's family, on the other hand, couldn't have been nicer or more loving, all except for ONE of her brothers, (one out of five, the eldest) but it didn't matter...her family was wonderful about it. Oh well, we were young and eventually things did not progress and we drifted apart and she moved to Hawaii, boo hoo.
She sure was sweet though, I would have married her if things had progressed.
Now my nephew is super serious with a black girl and I think they make a delightful couple, and HIS parents are okay with it.
His GRANDMOTHER (my aunt) isn't so thrilled, old school immigrant Italian lady that she is.
She's not mean or rude...she just doesn't understand...she's ninety-six.
But it doesn't matter because his parents are thrilled with his girlfriend and I hope they do get married, they've been an item for almost three years now. I've SKYPED them and talked to her. She sure seems like a wonderful girl and apparently she's really in love with him, sure looks that way.