Interracial marriage is always a sign of “race relations” getting better and the stigma against “race mixing” being lifted. I’m sick of idiots who try a hypocritical way of denouncing multiracial identity by claiming that interracial marriages have “failed” to eliminate “racism.” If perfection is your standard, then there were no successful political movements in history. Interracial marriages are not a political movement but a sign that other movements (Civil Rights, Multiracial Movement, etc.) have achieved significant success.

There is nothing stopping you from having any kind of History Month you like, is there?

Article seems out of place especially in the month of February were we are forced
to observe Black history month, the most racist of all insinuations.  Where is the
white month, where is the jewish month?  Why only a month.  Until we start
thinking of each other as all one and stop the forced individual identity, racism will
continue.  By singling out a race, it remains a target for abuse and a method to be
exploited, a la, Jackson, Quanel X, Al Sharpton, et al, for personal gain.

MA: it is a sin that EXTREMIST white people consider God only made white people to inherit and rule the earth.

Because, in their ignorance, they also believe the myth about mankind’s creation “in his image” (meaning God).

It is amazing what humans will invent to explain their animal superiority. When, in fact, paleontologists have shown conclusive evidence that we are descendants in a very long lineage that reaches back to the savannas of Africa.

The freedom of Religious faith, yes, must be protected. But it becomes dogma when we advance the hypothesis that God exists and the state must take into account “his commandments”.

Even our founding fathers, who believed in God, saw the damage done by a state religions in Europe and the monarchies established by Divine Right. Which is why they did not institute one in the US. After all, they could have done so.

They were content to specify that no law would impede belief—again in reference to religious prosecution that many (of their religion) had suffered in Europe.

Are we not, in some instances, inflicting the same suffering on others today?

gerard—the prefix in miscegenation is misce-,
from Latin miscere, to mix.

Countries attached to airy-fairy myths of their own creation and exceptionalism always have the need for a strong Jungian shadow.  Blacks have fit the Jungian bill nicely in this country for 400 years, and if all these new shades of brown no longer make black scapegoating convenient, then all that good ol’ American hate and despisal will *have* to be deposited elsewhere.

Prediction:  We’ll go the way of Brazil.  Huge strides in racial tolerance, new and as-yet undiscovered sorting mechanisms—money-driven of course—to serve up a whole new class of untouchables.

Benjamin Creme was asked in January 2004 issue of Share International:
Q. Are there very many reincarnated former Nazis who are in power now, who have fallen to the forces of darkness again, and if so, are they concentrated in any particular part(s) of the world?
A. None of the major figures are in incarnation at this time. There are a large number of reincarnated former Nazi Party members in state or city government in the US, Israel, Eastern Europe and Argentina.

The point is that all of us are souls that do reincarnate.  You can be white one life, black the next and brown after.  You can be male one life and female the next. Your vehicle in a future life can be influenced by the need to experience what you once hated. The more we identify with our soul instead of the transient physical-emotional-mental personality vehicle, the easier it is to see beyond our differences and grow without harsh lessons.  Love and appreciation of unity in diversity is key.

As long as there is fundamentalist christianity there will always exist white supremacism as doctrine. I never cease to be amazed at how non-caucasian cultures were bamboozled into falling into the christian delusion! I guess prosletyzing at the point of a weapon accompanied by a meager carrot is the best way to spread the “good news”.

There may be only 2%  “mixed race” Americans by some official counts or by self-
designation, but in the real world 100% of humans are mixed race, because there
are no border to races and never have been. It is an open system. We all have
African ancestors. Skin colour is very deceptive about our racial kinships, only one
characteristic among hundreds that vary genetically from person to person and
group to group.

Palin speaks with shredded tongue. Even her own father on live TV made comment on her. When asked why it took Sarah so many colleges to earn a one year degree, her father answered “she had problems/issues with the ethnic people and other races.” Thank you Oprah for that interview. It is a known fact she is a habitual liar.

Rodney: I have heard many Native people say that “they want their country bath,” from Native peoples in America and from Canada as well from my days on the Red Road. If anyone has the right to say that, it certainly isn’t the “new arrivals” who have taken and abused almost everything that Mother Earth has provided for her and when they finish destroying this country/planet where will they go next?

I reject the smart-aleck headline MISEGE/NATION.  I haven’t heart that word for decades and hope never to hear it again as the “mis-” prefix connotes the negatives, as in mistake, misnomer, miscreant.  It is itself prejudicial, and Dawkins using it (or whoever put it at the top of the article) should think twice about what they are doing. 

I put up a comment like this a while back near the beginning of the string, but it got dumped somehow.
Sorries to me. Happy Valentines to all of us mixed-up-blood yahoos!

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Multiracial Americans officially numbered 6.1 million in 2006 or barely 2.0% of the population.

What’s the big deal? Live and let live.

White men have been marrying black women and vice versa forever, Moses’ wife was a black woman.  Moses didn’t consider it a violation of life, and neither should anyone else, it is a sin that EXTREMIST white people consider God only made white people to inherit and rule the earth.

The interesting thing about race is that while ordinary people are abandoning the concept in their daily lives and probably their thoughts as well, academics and other intellectuals seem more and more fascinated by it.  For their sakes, perhaps reservations where racial practices could be preserved should be set up in some remote parts of the country.

Using the word mulatto or nigger in mixed company, or otherwise, would, and should have repercussions, just as using certain other words is perceived as being unacceptable in polite conversation. Some object to the word nigger or “Nigga” in any context, while others believe the word is acceptable in certain contexts, and that use of the word builds camaraderie in certain contexts. Using the word “Boo” or “Nigga” is even considered a term of endearment in certain contexts, though these words do bring to mind past and present racist attitudes.

The clinical use of the word mulatto may be acceptable in certain academic contexts, but why use the word, when other designations are less abrasive? The word “Colored,” as in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is no longer acceptable in most contexts, just as the word Negro is no longer acceptable in most contexts. The word Negro is most often used today by comics who are indicating latent racism.

Long before my daughter had mixed race children, in my heart of hearts, and at the core of my intellect, I have believed that mixing of the races is a positive, and will lead to a better future, though I know that my daughter’s children will be subjected to discrimination at present, and not exclusively from white people. I feel safe in assuming that this revelation of mine will elicit anger and annoyance in some. The demand for racial purity has been the demand of history’s greatest villains. I’m not one who believes that the preservation of racial: heritage, culture, and language is at all important, but I do see Black History Month and Black History studies at major Universities as being valuable to the extent that they bring the races together, and do not serve to separate the races.

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Rush Limbaugh recently said:

“One of the biggest pet peeves black women have, in recent decades, is black men marrying or pairing up with white women. It just bugs ‘em, particularly if they happen to be blonde. That’s lighting the fuze. There’s already a bomb there but, if the white woman happens to be blonde, that just… They’re taken off the market. Another black guy gone from the marketplace of available men. So the Pepsi ad has a white woman getting decked by a can of Pepsi thrown by a black woman. A homerun if you understand the demographics here.”

This comment is typical Rush, and I believe it’s a despicable comment, but sadly, there may be some truth in the comment.

Never the less, the following comes from Ebony Magazine:

“…The fact is, interracial love and marriage are touching the lives of everyday working Black women. Take a look at the statistics. Government figures confirm that the number of Black women marrying White men is both substantial and growing. According to the U.S. Bureau of Census, in 1987 there were 56,000 Black women married to White men. That’s 11,000 more than were married to White men at the decade’s beginning in 1980…”

From articlesbase.com posted Oct. 14, 2008:

“Today, black women - white men couples are as prevalent as black men - white women couples. This is evident in large cities such as Chicago and New York, Atlanta and Detroit, which have a noticeable and outstanding increase in the number of mixed-race couples.”

“Interracial couples are more noticeable and prominent than ever,” says a Midwest-based author who has observed the changes in the dating trends for about 40 years. “But the recent numbers of Black women being escorted by White men is, well, startling, to say the least.”

“Startling?” The subject of mixing the races is a sensitive one, and will lead to anger and annoyance, but should it? We’ve had black Othello, why not an updated version of “Romeo and Juliet,” preferably without the prejudice, anger, violence and death.

Wouldn’t a black rose smell just as sweet? Are all Valentine hearts red? They come in a variety of colors, and some are sweet chocolate. That being said, I’m not totally free from prejudice; I don’t like the lavender Valentines, they’re a menace.

Interesting article, interesting comments.

I suspect Marcia Dawkins speaks of “race” because this idea is deeply a part of how we see ourselves and our slaveholding legacy. In other cultures the issue is not so much “race” as it is “culture”. Multicultural marriages where couples are constantly called upon to chose one or another cultural practice are known to be fraught with difficulties.

American history books teach that there are five races and 7 continents, that the European continent ends at the Bosphorous, the Caucasus and the Urals. These are mere conventions and a far greater number of people in this world reject the idea of race as a factor of identity and believe the land forms of the worlds are divided into 5 or 6 distinct continents, depending on whether Europe is distinct from Eurasia or whether the Americas for a single continent.

The spatial segregation described in Gulam‘s detailed description of Greensboro, NC, is by far the more critical issue facing our democracies, all fifty of them. Like humans (humans who share an identity trait) will congregate for self-preservation to the detriment of public interest.

Fair and equitable access to public education, sports facilities, public transit, libraries, unbiased internet access and jobs is in the public interest, just as a healthy (read ‘free of health anxieties’) and vibrant (read ‘motivated’) workforce is critical for a smoothly functioning economy. And yet, when enclaves of privilege are allowed to develop to the detriment of public equity, as has been extensively reported in the American press, the very roots of our democratic process are affected. Separate can never be equal!

For an interesting and thought provoking discussion of public equity, see Marcia Dawkins’ article in Truthdig, “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste-except in Ohio” and response, “Poverty and the Media Circus, or when is a circus not entertainment”.

I don’t think it would be good policy to work against people congregating by personal affinity. But it is the state’s duty to ensure that public access to community resources is equitable and not limited by local ad valorem assessments. Vigilance is the responsibility of engaged citizens in every community.

Recently I looked at a new web site that shows the percentages of the
population by race in every voting district in the USA. I looked at a voting
district in Vermont and sure enough an area where one black friend of mine
lives was coloured to indicate not all white but less than 1% black. Then I found
something remarkable when I looked at a town that I happen to know in the
South: Greensboro, North Carolina.

Many farms on the West side of town were purchased in the depression by a
wealthy Jewish family, and the husband of one of the daughters, a man always
referred to in Greensboro as “Mr. Benjamin,” transformed this land after WWII
into a series of large housing developments. Within each well defined
neighbourhood were houses that fit into a carefully controlled price range. The
subdivision at the top of the social pecking order, in the area with the most
expensive homes, was the neighbourhood with the highest percentage of Jews,
and this was called Starmount Forest. Sternberger was the name of the wealthy
Jewish family who owned the land, and Starmount was the English translation
of their German/Yiddish family name. There is a Sternberger Elementary School,
which is probably the polling site for that voting district.

On the map showing race in various voting districts across America there was
no reference to Jews as a race. They were not mentioned at all. As I expected a
majority of the areas in the county were coloured white on the map, which
meant from 3%-50% black, since the South had in fact moved a long way
toward integration. As was its purpose, these maps showed the extent to which
the nation is still segregated along white-black lines. However, the most
interesting thing about the map was the fact that there were no blacks in
Starmount Forrest at all; it was one of the few totally segregated areas. This
made that area bright red on the map. In this area where the largest number of
wealthy Jews live in Greensboro apparently there was not a single black
resident.

The press, including most progressive and liberal web sites, keeps on pushing
the black-white race issue, even though there is in America less white-black
tension in early 2011 than one might expect, given the incarceration rate for
blacks and their falling employment levels, and given the fact that an
unfortunate percentage of the good jobs generated during the last generation
have gone to white women not to men of colour, further driving apart the races
and the haves from the have nots. This same press never challenges the double
standard on defining Jews as being people of a specific race when it comes to
their right to go to Israel and hold joint citizenship, but never allowing Jews to
be defined as a race at all in the USA. If Jews were defined and marked on maps
the way this is done for whites and blacks and hispanics, then it is highly
probable that we would find the Jews in fact segregate themselves away from
the black population even more consistently and than do most whites. Jewish
commentators have often raised the issue of race, and Jewish directors in
Hollywood and New York have pointed the finger derisively at whites in America
for decades, but information making plain Jewish racism is systematically
avoided if not censored.

This article drops in the obligatory line about a mad racist bomber going after
both Jewish and black targets. There is always the implication in the liberal
press that the Jews are one with black Americans in facing and fighting racism,
but this is a false front presented by the media. The facts on the ground will
not bear this out. I suggest you ask blacks if they think this is real. They will
laugh at you.

The word Mulatto is a no no. Why is this?

One of the strangest things about the election of Obama was that I have never
once seen him referred to as “mulatto.” Why is that word automatically taken as
negative, as racist, when it accurately describes our president, and a large and
growing percentage of the population throughout the Americas? In a sense this is
what all mankind is: “of mixed race.” There are no lines; it is all a fuzzy, somewhat
theoretical construct with only functional (or disfunctional) use as a word.

Meantime, while “....your huddled masses” throughout the “global” maximum security regime are kept CONstantly obsessed by such make-believe superficialities as “race,” “religion,” “nationality,” and “eCONomy,” the owner/operators of its command-and-CONtrol apparatus go right on with their twin-engined turbocharged corporate/governmental rapine, pillage, and murder.  Domesticated peoples perhaps now CONgenitally unable to see their Way past all the smoke and mirrors, to the common ground of their very Humanity and its Organic Function as vital components in Earth’s Living Arrangement, have only the grimmest of prospects in these latter days.

Hexagram #48, The Well, in The Book of Changes, warns of the dangers of using The Well.  It tells us, for example, that any ‘analysis’ of our condition that fails (like a rope that is too short) to reach all The Way to the roots of Humanity, will likely produce even worse effects than if no attempt at all had been made.

Most of the punditry and commentary here, and all over, suffers glaringly from just such a deficiency….with all the ‘negative’ CONsequences.

HokaHey!

Some day perhaps we will all be plaid, then we will have to find other reasons to hate.

HITLER IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PSYCHOPATH THAT HATED HIS PARTIAL JEWISHNESS…IN FACT HE
HAD HIS VILLAGE USED AS TARGET PRACTICE BY ARTILLERY..AFTER ALL THE VILLAGERS WERE
REMOVED…POSSIBLE TO RID THE HISTORY OF HIS TAINTED BLOOD…WHEN DISCUSSING RACISM..
WHITES ARE HELD UP AS THE PROTYPICAL RACIST..YET WHITE CHRISTIAN MALES HAVE KILLED
MORE OF THEIR OWN IN ENDLESS WARS..THEN ANY OTHER RACE..AND AS JESSE JACKSON
STATED..BLACKS HAVE KILLED MORE OF THEIR OWN THAN WERE KILLED BY WHITES..RACISM IS
ALWAYS TROTTED OUT AS THE GREAT BUGABOO…BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE MORE SINISTER
FORCES..BEHIND HISTORIES UNFOLDINGS…

I ahve dealt with the public intimately for most of my life. While I have not witnessed a change in attitudes concerning race in our older population in the US (on the contrary, since the election of 2008 I have seen a marked increase in racist animocity among our senior and middle aged groups)I have noticed a certain apathy towards the subject of race among americas youth (however my experiences are primarily in the northeast US, some of my brief trips to the south and southwest have shown me that old racist attitudes are alive and well in those regions among all sectors of the populace).

I guess apathy towards race in everyday interactions could be seen by many as a positive developement. I commend the youth of america if that turns out to be the first step towards acceptance and equality. But, in the upper ohio valley I still hear the word “Nigger” in everyday conversation in public places. I guess the only thing that can change some attiitudes is six feet of dirt.

Great piece.  Read an article with a similar sentiment on TheLoop21.com this past week.  Any meaningful discussion about race, including those in interracial reltionships or from multi-ethnic background, needs to start with our own honest, inward reflection.