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Yeah...I guess some of you are shocked (for some weird reason) to find out that there exists black people that don't jump up and down with joy at the prospect of having white folks join the family. I'm sure that comes as a complete surprise to those with an inflated sense of themselves based on their race.
In any case, given the generation she was born into, her concerns are understandable.
Yeah...I guess some of you are shocked (for some weird reason) to find out that there exists black people that don't jump up and down with joy at the prospect of having white folks join the family. I'm sure that comes as a complete surprise to those with an inflated sense of themselves based on their race.
In any case, given the generation she was born into, her concerns are understandable.
What a crock of baloney.
What's being pointed out is her and her family's racism, so chuck the hypocrisy.
Yeah...I guess some of you are shocked (for some weird reason) to find out that there exists black people that don't jump up and down with joy at the prospect of having white folks join the family. I'm sure that comes as a complete surprise to those with an inflated sense of themselves based on their race.
In any case, given the generation she was born into, her concerns are understandable.
Last time I looked, white folks are human beings just like black folks.
Seems some of you might wanna practice what you preach.
Yeah...I guess some of you are shocked (for some weird reason) to find out that there exists black people that don't jump up and down with joy at the prospect of having white folks join the family. I'm sure that comes as a complete surprise to those with an inflated sense of themselves based on their race.
In any case, given the generation she was born into, her concerns are understandable.
I agree. My grandparents (Mrs Robinson's era) were mostly very wary of "race mixing." It was common amongst black and white Americans to have this point of view. My paternal grandfather actually had a white lady "on the side" and eventually left his wife (my grandmother) for the mistress. His mom didn't talk to him for a year over it and she herself was mixed race. Her own mother did not want her to marry my great grandfather because he was "too dark." My great grandmother looked like a white person even though she was classified as black.
I do think though that there has been an unhealthy focus on Michelle Obama around here of late.
Also, desertdetroiter is right, many black people don't think having a white family member is all that good of a thing. Just like many white men don't want their daughters bringing home a black guy, black families don't want their son to bring home a white lady. Both are common ideologies.
My aunt was like that with hearing about my ex being African-American, yet her son in law is from Trinidad. Not a whole lot of white skinned people living there... Then again she complained abut my brother dating a Jewish woman. I think it is just she tries to be scandalous. My parents didn't care about neither, they looked at the character. The fact remains despite interracial marriage being fully legal for about fifty years now, many people still look down on it whether it is the whites on the black SO or the blacks on the white SO.
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