For all the posts saying its going to be hard to be in a interracial relationship because of this, this and this, there are many things in life that are hard and are not accepted. But just because they are not accepted right now does not mean it will always be that way. And just because people may react so negatively to this type of relationship does not mean that it should never go on. I give a lot of credit to people who are in interracial relationships, it shows two people who are strong and who are willing to focus on their love, not the hate and ignorance of others around them.

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Originally Posted by LadyLongitude

For all the posts saying its going to be hard to be in a interracial relationship because of this, this and this, there are many things in life that are hard and are not accepted. But just because they are not accepted right now does not mean it will always be that way. And just because people may react so negatively to this type of relationship does not mean that it should never go on. I give alot of credit to people who are in interracial relationships, it shows two people who are strong and who are willing to focus on their love, not the hate and ignorance of others around them.

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I agree and the ones saying it is hard IS from personal experience.
I always saw racism as primarily a white guy thing but being with my boyfriend
He takes me to hear bands and the black girls say to him ''why you with a pink toed girl?''

Well as you know I'm the one that post this Question and the reason that I did is because not a lot people would consider this as a BIG problem that we have in the world today. Most people would say "who cares it don't effect me" or " why are talking about this it don't matter to me", but the truth of the matter is it does matter but everyone that has left a post is the kind of stuff I wanted to hear. Now a days with the younger generation a lot of kids are mixed. I'm seeing more and more mixed kids (of any color). That the reason we need to talk about it cause the kids are our future and we need to let them know that its okay to date out your race or even have friends that are of different color. Now I have 3 kids 1 is mexican and white (I'm white and mexican) and the other two are black and white. My oldest daughter (mexican) dad told her not to like black people and she goes to school where half of her kids in the class are black as well as her sisters. She was playing with a black babydoll and she told me that her dad would be mad at her if he caught he playing with it. I called him and told him don't be feeding my daughter that stuff because she will not grow to learn to hate her sisters or any other race. I't one thing that the grown folks are racist but that's where we ked up. We don't have to make that mistake with the next generation. We now can change the world we just have to start with our Future the KIDS.

In my city Pittsburgh Pa white girls have been going for black guys for over 15 years.
Often many of the teen white girls are doing it for all the wrong reasons--like they are obsessed with the bad boy 'hood rapper dude image.

As common as it is there are still people who you can tell are uncomfortable with seeing a mixed couple. On the other hand in the past 7 years I have been seeing more and more grandma's pushing the strollers of their mixed grand baby.

See that's what talking about!! :-)

Not saying people should not but I talk from experience, my wife is black and I am white, what I am saying is marriage and relationships are very hard with everything else perfect in them. The added issues are at times just more stress and problems that people are not even considering..

It's kind of amazing that in this day it IS still an issue. When are we going to learn to see people for who they are? I am white. I have had boyfriends that are white, hispanic and black. If you can find love, good for you. Who cares what anyone else thinks.

As an added plus, when you open your heart and mind to new ideas and cultures it is always an opportunity to grow.

I would agree with Fr_Chuck and I believe how you feel about it has a lot to do with what generation you are coming from. There are so many reasons out there as to why people do it. Some are for the right reason, some for the wrong reason. With any relationship you have to be ready to fight the fight, if you are in it for the wrong reason it makes it harder. I have issue with brothers leaning on white womene to avoid taking responsibility for themselves. I have issue with young white women dating because they want to upset the home life or "be bad". I myself was adopted into a multi racial family when I was a baby, I am the only black, but there are many different cultures in my family and I love it. However, my true feeling is that I have issue with people faking it in this world and being in relationships for the wrong reason or any relationship that feelings aren't geniune.

I am of a mixed race half Jamican and Itialn and my boyfriend is Irish. I see nothing wrong with it. It up to the person who they daye and who they want to be with. As long as that person treats you right, who cares, but some do. My boyfriend family is racist, I think because once they found out I was pregnant by him, I saw their true colors. I'm okay to date but they want us to have kids together because I believe they don't want any black people in their family. Little do they know it only made our bond tighter and we're looking to get married in December.

I'm all for it. I don't think race/religion should be a factor in keeping two people who care about each other apart. I'm a white female and never dated outside my race until recently. I met a wonderful guy and was instantly attracted to him. Race wasn't even a factor for me. I'm enjoying his company and our time together. To be honest, if he asked me to marry him, I'd say YES!!

I'm the outcome of interatiol dating, so I don't really care

I've branched out and dated black men for the last 12years well in that 12 years I'm on my 3rd serious relationship. I think it's great. I don't see people for what color they are I see them for who they are as a person. My family is totally redneck racist and I have to keep my life a secret just to keep everyone safe. I don't want anyone to get hurt. I'm in a relationship right now that is so intense that one day I know I'm going have to make a choice between him and my family. I love my parents but if they can't accept it then I'll have have to move on without them and that is the only thing that really hurts me. I wish everyone could just get along. I used to be like them, I grew up in a town that had no other race other than whites. Yes it was a small ranch town in Texas. But it wasn't until I went to college and got hired as a resident advisor in a coed dorm that I actually even carried on a conversation with a black person. And it was then that I figured out that there are good and bad in every crowd. I wish there was more harmony in the world.