I know, there has been a real lack of posts this week. It's been a little crazy around here this week. We found out Friday, my daughter's best friend died from an asthma attack last Thursday. It was such a shock and so sad to hear about. The little girl was only 11 years old. She was like a family member, as other children in the neighborhood, she spent many days here playing and for sleep overs. At first, I didn't believe it. I thought maybe she was in the hospital or something, because she was just over her playing the day before it happened. I called her mother to see if it was true and to give her my condolences if it was true. So, I have allowed the kids to have more sleepovers than usual this week to distract them and I spent yesterday afternoon making five packs of hot dogs on the grill to drop off for the kids at the car wash trying to raise money for her funeral. With the sad news and all the children running in and out of the house I really haven't had too much to write about. It is a reminder of how you can lose someone out of the blue.
It was nice to see the parents and the kids in the neighborhood working together to raise money for her funeral. We live in a suburb where the homes are close together, so a lot of the children play in groups around here and the parents get a chance to know a lot of the other children of the neighborhood.
The girl in the video makes a good point. Black and white interracial relationships draw the most attention of the interracial relationships controversy. It makes sense to say it could possibly stem from the history between Caucasians and African Americans. Why is it Asians dating African Americans, Asians dating Caucasians, Middle Easterners dating Caucasians, and so on is not part of the discussion nearly as much as Caucasians dating African Americans? What most people fail to recognize interracial dating is not just about Caucasians and African Americans. Interracial relationships by definition means "Marriage or sexual relations between individuals of different races."
My question is "Why is interracial relationships a controversy in the first place?" Does my life or the life of other interracial couples have a direct effect on the lives of others? Why are white women who date black men stereotyped? When reading the comments under the video, one of the comments says, white women who date black men act like teenagers, I highly doubt that statement is true. That is the same as saying we are less intelligent, because we chose to be with an African American male. I think it is more fair to say, we don't believe in separating the races and we believe we are all the same regardless of skin color. A person can not be judged by the color of skin their mate is.
Racism is ignorance and there shouldn't be a debate about interracial relationships. There is no superior race. We are all the same and God created us in his image. If you are racist, then you are questioning your faith and you are questioning that God created man in his image. There are bigger fish to fry than to waste time debating over interracial relationships or which race is superior.
