"Racism" is not always bad

I'm Black and I'm not against interracial mixing. Never have been against it.

 

Nothing is wrong with it, just be tolerant of others. Treat others the way you would want to be treated. that's all. Don't go thinking your race or your way of thinking is superior because others don't think like you.

 

Racism is always bad.

To feel comfortable with people only because of skin color is a bad thing. Nothing healthy there.

To assume things about people because of their race is a sad and bad thing...even though it is often a logical reaction because unfortunately some people think race should dictate culture, thoughts and opinions. Its not politically correct to think otherwise.

 

Uh, well... I went to a friend's grandparents' house a year ago. They are white. They too had a framed photograph of Obama and no other president. So yeah, I would not assume things.

 

from my perspective, a cute snatch is a cute snatch, regardless of skin color.

 

You're one person, Saturn.

 

I am one person, and I also know a few Black people whose closest friends are not of the same race as them. I also know of a few White people whose closest friends are not White.

 

---I don't think there is anything wrong with preserving ethnic identity. In fact, I would be sad to see a world compromised of one, mixed race with everyone being the same shade. How utterly boring.

---It was stated in this thread already but I think it is worth repeating: there are those who desire to preserve their ethnicity and others that enjoy mixing and fraternizing with people outside of their ethnicity. Either position is fine as a point of reference. However, both are problematic when they designate themselves on opposite ends of the same spectrum.

---Wanting to be around white people, or black people is not racist or pathological. It becomes pathological when your desire to be around your ethnicity is so strong that you are adversarial toward another ethnicity sharing a public property. In other words, carry on your private life in whatever way most pleases you, but if you expect your social and public life to conform to the standards of your private matters you are going to cause misery for yourself and those around you; a fluid personality can occupy any space without imposing on it. It is the concrete that requires a space tailored for its dimensions.

---In my life I have found that not insisting on "who I am" has given me unlimited capacity for accepting others and to roll with the punches. That is not to say that I will suffer any sort of behavior-I am still principled-but time and others cannot take anything from me, because I don't try to hold on to what is ultimately doomed to pass away, which is everything except principles.

---I understand that the destructive behavior of cultures originating from certain races complicates everything I've stated above. The best answer I've come up with at my age of 27 is that life is crazy. Definitely not the best answer but it's what I am working with.

 

The problem is that some of us do not want our children mixing with other races. Yet ideally it would be best if they had the right to choose whoever they wanted. Therefore the best solution is to keep white females away from non-white males, and white males away from non-white females so that they will not be inclined to intermix. Preventing intermixing is important for the preservation of ones race/ethnicity. I believe it is especially important to keep children separated when they are young so they do not grow up to develop an attraction for a different race.

Even if I do not seek to push my views on other white families that want their children to race-mix, the white families that would prefer their children not to race mix should have the right to put their children into school classrooms for only white children. The state has no right to tax families for education, but then force racial integration into all the educational services it offers.

But I believe miscongenation is also unfair to the resulting children. Most children would prefer to be born into a single race. So the state could potentially have an obligation to protect the children. For a similar reason that two related cousins were not allowed to have children in many places.

 

---It's hard to say whether or not most children would prefer to be born into a single race. I am mixed race myself and certainly had troubles with my identity. As a child it felt perfectly natural that my mother is white. It felt perfectly natural that my father was black. It did not enter my mind that the situation was different until I interacted with others. My first experience with this was in elementary school. I attended a breakfast ,put on by the school, with my white grandfather. Most of my classmates looked at us strangely, like they wondered who the hell was accompanying me. Thankfully one of them finally asked and I told him it was my grandfather. He didn't believe me at first, but after an hour or so of answering questions it wasn't a big deal anymore.

---As a teenager I used to fantasize about what I would have looked like if I were entirely black, or entirely white. It wasn't until my early twenties that I stopped focusing on what was purported to be my identity, race, and became more curious about my mind and about intellect. This was a big step toward being happy and I am glad I decided to investigate things that cannot being contained by race alone.