Ronald Langford Des Moines, IA 24 minutes ago My mother was born in 1920 in Baltimore , MD: The fist state to pass miscegenation laws, and the last to repeal them. She passed at the age of 96 in Des Moines, IA, and lies among other veterans (she was a WAC) at the Veterans Cemetery in Van Meter, IA. My mother's father was Black, and mother white. She had two brothers (Joseph and Daniel) and a sister (Katherine "Kitty"). The authorities discovered the relationship and police came to my mother's home. She was around the age of 12 when this occurred. Her mother took her to live with a neighbor, but the neighbor was abusive and mom ran away. She became a ward of the court, and placed at the Good Shepherd Home for Colored Girls. For the first year, her mother, and sometimes Kitty, would come to visit her weekly, and she remembers just sitting in her mother's lap. The visits stopped, and she went to her grave wondering what happened to her family. She joined the military during WWII and stationed at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and vowed she would never raise a family in Maryland. As a mother, she was AMAZING, notwithstanding her hurt. We have never been able to locate her family, and our mother never stopped wanting them to find her. Flag

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olyjan olympia 41 minutes ago Here's who taught me about racism and how 'invisible' (as in institutional racism), it was to me: MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY. Every Sunday I learned. No one has taken her place as 'professor' of talk-tv. Flag

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Cameron Armstrong Hawaii 41 minutes ago Interracial marriage does nothing to end racism. Most white people who marry a black man or black woman does not mean their stereotypes and prejudices cease to exist immediately or ten years into the marriage. It does not mean they will agree with black people's views on police brutality and social oppression. I cannot imagine a white woman understanding me and loving me better than a black woman. Flag

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blackmamba IL 41 minutes ago Since there is only one biological DNA genetic evolutionary fit modern human race species that began in Southeast Africa 250,000 years ago the notion of 'interracial love' is scientifically ridiculous. About 2-5% of European and Asian DNA is part of an extinct race. None of that DNA exists in Sub-Saharan African populations.



What the scientifically illiterate and ignorant call 'race' aka color is merely a chronological ecological pigmented response to varying levels of solar radiation at altitudes and latitudes primarily related to the production of Vitamin D and protecting genes from damaging mutations. Lawyers don't know science.



Color as race was an historical white American supremacist socioeconomic political educational meaningful response to the need to justify humanity denying enslavement of Africans and their African separate and unequal oppression during the Jim Crow era.



Although I am biologically part white European, black African, brown Native and yellow Asian in America I am all and only black in America. Being colored black in America did not make Barack Obama half-white by biological nature and all white by cultural nurture.



Black women are the least likely to marry outside their color. While white men are the most likely to do so. Thomas Jefferson did not marry his African property Sallie Hemmings. Flag

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Lucyfer USA 43 minutes ago The mixing of the races shows there is hope for humanity. Bless those corageous souls who trample that boundary. Bless their children, for in that mixing the one Human Race groes stronger. Flag

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Jeff Garibaldi New York City 43 minutes ago Normally, I don't share NYC article on my twitter. But hashtag this to republican & rnc :) Flag

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Beverley Fredericksburg,Va 43 minutes ago So let me get this straight. Four several hundred years Black women had kids with White men and their kids were "black". We built a society around keeping them and their kids oppressed. Now that White women are having kids with MOC, the kids are bi-racial and this will save America from it's racist past?



Nope! Go to any School Board meeting and you will see the divide. Ask any honest feminist organization and you will find a divide. White women are going to do what they can to get their kids ahead but they're not going to lookout for the kid that has 2 POC parents... probably not even the one who has the Black mom and White dad. If having one or two white parents is the ticket to equality. If White people only see POC as human and worthy of the American Dream when they have POC folks in their family then it's just another form of tribalism and we are not equal yet. Flag

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A Southern Bro Massachusetts 43 minutes ago “Race,” like the related fiction “black-male-as-sexual-predator,” is a powerful and dangerous historic reality that cannot withstand even limited scientific or statistical scrutiny.



A civil war, constitutional amendments, civil rights laws and U. S. Supreme Court decisions like Brown and Loving have chipped away at the effects of race in our country, but not nearly enough attention has been given to the second fiction.



At the end of the Civil War there were thousands of mixed-race slaves on the plantations of this country and almost 100% of them were the children of white-master and black-slave enforced sexual relations (rape?). Who was the sexual predator?



The Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, AL has documented more than 4,000 lynchings of African Americans in this country between 1877 and 1950. Many of the victims—possibly the majority—were black males lynched for untoward sexual behavior toward white females.



Individual and institutional racism has been drastically reduced because abolitionists and social activists like Dr. John Cashin—Professor Sheryll Cashin’s father—confronted it. In contrast, it is difficult to even DISCUSS the seeming psychological projection of the black male as a sexual predator or reprobate despite his overwhelmingly disproportionate ensnarement in the criminal justice system. Flag

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Lawrence Lundgren Linköping, Sweden 43 minutes ago



The people described here are all members of the only uniquely identifiable race, the human, and they all have genomes 99+% that are the same, but each has a line of descent that makes each a distinctly unique individual.



Racists began long ago to use visible markers – skin color, nose shape, lip size – to make it possible to assign people to “races” – Sweden’s Herman Lundborg was a “leader” in this field.



Ta Nehisi Coates, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kenneth Prewitt, and Dorothy Roberts all try to educate people who believe in race but with little success. So I copy this headline and the lead from the Guardian



“Racial identity is a biological nonsense, says Reith lecturer Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah who says race and nationality are social ... it is time we stopped making dangerous assumptions about how we differ. 18 okt. 2016 The Guardian



Visit BBC World to listen to Appiah’s lectures or view Dorothy Roberts’ TED lecture. Then find new ways to describe the marriage of two people with different lines of descent.



I believe that the author of this article would tell us that Appiah and Roberts are the offspring of bi-racial marriages, but neither Appiah nor Roberts would accept that description nor do I. So send me your suggestions of a new nomenclature.



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Dual citizen US SE Isn't it odd that Sheryll Cashin shows that she understands very well that the system used to classify was created by racists but uses that terminology anyway.The people described here are all members of the only uniquely identifiable race, the human, and they all have genomes 99+% that are the same, but each has a line of descent that makes each a distinctly unique individual.Racists began long ago to use visible markers – skin color, nose shape, lip size – to make it possible to assign people to “races” – Sweden’s Herman Lundborg was a “leader” in this field.Ta Nehisi Coates, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kenneth Prewitt, and Dorothy Roberts all try to educate people who believe in race but with little success. So I copy this headline and the lead from the Guardian“Racial identity is a biological nonsense, says Reith lecturer Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah who says race and nationality are social ... it is time we stopped making dangerous assumptions about how we differ. 18 okt. 2016 The GuardianVisit BBC World to listen to Appiah’s lectures or view Dorothy Roberts’ TED lecture. Then find new ways to describe the marriage of two people with different lines of descent.I believe that the author of this article would tell us that Appiah and Roberts are the offspring of bi-racial marriages, but neither Appiah nor Roberts would accept that description nor do I. So send me your suggestions of a new nomenclature.Dual citizen US SE Flag

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dad or 43 minutes ago I'm 3/4 white, so should I hate the 1/4 black side of myself? Should I repress and discriminate against 1/4 of my blood. Should I make 1/4 of myself out to be stupid and lazy, while 3/4 of me has the 'god-given right as a white'? Doesn't make much sense does it? I wish everybody could see that we are all related, but humans are so stupid, it will take millennia for them to really understand this fact. Flag

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John Sacramento 43 minutes ago I love the bigotry that forces the "Christians in red states" comment. Flag

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rozfromoz NY & HI 43 minutes ago Everyone into the gene pool! Flag

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Lou P Sunnyvale CA USA 45 minutes ago I am 69 years old. When I was in college in the late 60's inter-racial relationships were rare and certainly remarkable. When my children were becoming adults, both dated young black women, and asian women. My older son married a black woman, and my younger son married a Mexican American woman. It was not longer rare or remarkable. My grandchildren won't even think about it and will be confused by the notion that it was ever an issue. "Really, Grandpa? Really? That's weird!" Thank God! Flag

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Recommend Share this comment on Facebook Share this comment on Twitter Raymond Goodman Jr. Durham ,NH 1 minute ago Mexicans are not considered a race. In my home town of Laredo, TX, marriage between the cultures knows no bounds. Almost everyone is related on both sides of what you refer to as "race." My grandson's best friends are mostly African-Americans. They've named themselves: espresso, mocha and vanilla bean. Flag

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Jeffry Oliver St. Petersburg 45 minutes ago My parents, Father, African American by way of Ohio, Mother, Sicilian American by way of Pennsylvania, met and fell in love in New York City, got married, had a child, and stayed married, until death did them part some forty years after they met. In New York City. In the late 1940s.

I am their son, born in 1950, and the matrix of my ethnicity has been a source of strength, and wisdom, all my life. Growing up in the creative, progressive milieu of Manhattan's Upper West Side didn't hurt.

I've seen a lot of bad stuff. Driving across 1962 America with your Black Father and your White Mother was a drive across racial divides. But growing up in NYC was a vision of how things could be.

Love can trump racism, and the fear of 'the other'.

So can wisdom.

So be in love, and be smart about it. Flag

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terry brady new jersey 45 minutes ago I'm a white guy and college in the late 60's/early 70's when positive racial identity was paramount. I tried dating African-American women but was systematically rebuked, scolded and runoff. Obviously, there were beautiful, smart, single women in college and regardless of how I pleaded, begged actually, I could not get a date with a black lady. Same answer every time,I don't go out with white dudes. Period. Flag

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dog girl nyc 45 minutes ago It is not a matter of thinking whites as monolithic ...



It is much simpler: a white parent will see clearly when there is racism against their own child! Trust me....there is no buts or ifs or what I am seeing is not racism! It is an interesting experiment when that white parent is highly educated and brings up his/her child in the same way and in the same neighborhood....interesting to see indeed.



That is it folks! Flag

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Robert Kolker Monroe Twp. NJ USA 45 minutes ago One of these days people will recognize there is -only one- human race. Every last one of us homo sapiens are cousins to each other. Class, custom, religion and culture divide what is biologically one. Flag

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Bruce1253 San Diego 45 minutes ago Time to move on to the next frontier. I know it is blasphemy and will get me banished to everlasting torment of being forced to listen to both NPR and Rush Limbaugh, but is it possible for Conservatives and Progressives to fall in love? What would happen if they did? Would the earth shift of its axis or Trump begin wearing Buddhist Prayer Beads or something equally traumatic? The mind boggles at the very thought of such a thing. But what if it happened. . . . ? Flag

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liz Europe 45 minutes ago "More loving and more activism." Amen Flag

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alan haigh carmel, ny 45 minutes ago I'm glad attitudes about race are evolving, but the fact is that the disparity of wealth between whites and blacks is worse than it was in 1979 and this is the crux of the matter. Period.



Like this piece, with all its good intentions and optimism, most media attention focuses on race based hatred rather than race based economics. If this was an effective approach to dealing with the issue as a whole, black Americans would be catching up with whites rather than going backwards with 39% of black children being born in poverty today.



Maybe telling people they are beautiful is easier than giving up a piece of your pie, but to give all children born in poverty an equal chance of fulfilling their potential, the more fortunate will have to share more than smiles and good feelings- well spent capital will be required.



But making this investment doesn't have to be out of generosity or good-will, nice as that would be. It would be an investment that pays every American back in time- both spiritually and materially. Flag

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Dennis McKeon New Jersey 45 minutes ago You have to love the Times' reporting on race. To be sure, the story of Mr. and Mrs. Loving is a triumph of love over hate. That being said, the stats cited in this article are bewildering. What is an inter-ethic marriage? Let me guess, one in which one spouse is Hispanic. So if I, an American of Irish descent were to marry Cameron Diaz, the actress (I should be so lucky!), would that be considered.....what inter-racial or inter-ethnic? And why are Hispanics the only linguistic group singled out as a separate ethnicity? Flag

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Keely NJ 45 minutes ago "Eventually, a critical mass of white people will accept the loss of the centrality of whiteness." Will they though? Because currently (even before the oaf Trump arrived on the scene) I'm not so sure whites were taking the browning of America all that well. I don't want to think of whites as monolithic but the vast majority still seem to be fighting the inevitable change tooth and nail: they will not go quietly. Especially America's political establishment (both right and left), the right treated Obama like he was the freaking butler for 8 years, denied him many rights any other presidents have had. I still hate to believe that without Obama's white mother that door would never have opened for him. I hope future generations will improve humanity over time, for all our sakes. Flag

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Cousy New England 56 minutes ago I grew up in a diverse community. Twenty five years ago I married a man of a different race, which wasn't a big deal. We had biracial children, which wasn't a big deal. They have thrived and know many black/white children (like them) at school and at church. The only hard part is feeling that it will be hard for them to go elsewhere in the US for college or for work, since many places are not diverse or accepting.



I honor the Lovings, who paved the way for my normal marriage and family life. But I honor also the people of my fabulous community, who long before the Loving decision saw the virtue of being an open, tolerant and richly diverse place. Flag

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Phil Madison, WI 1 hour ago Reasonably close to our experience as an Italo-American x Aztec-Spanish-Black-Mexican. It has been delightful. Could we all take a deep breath now and add the "mixed" to the racial identifier? To at last recognize the contribution of President Obama's mother? To refer to him more accurately as our first mixed race president? Time for a read (reread) Obama's eloquent "Dreams From My Father." Breeding our way to richer relationships sounds like a good strategy. Flag

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