To me I think if you have love and God in a relationship that it doesn't matter. Half of my family members are in a interracail relationship and there children are well loved and taken care of. A child will get different cultural experiences throughout his/her life. So wouldnt't you 'd rather have them get it through a loving home?!?! It's not really the color of your skin that makes a difference cause if we all close our eyes we will be the same color. It's how you are bought up, so if you bring up a child right than you keep sharing your love!!Share the LOVE/ Not the hate

interracial dating is perfectly OK. so what if they have a different color skin. TONS of people date people of other races and no one cares. right now i'm a little involved with someone who is half black. i'm 100% white. who gives a ****?! we are all the same people and everyone should have learned that when they were 4...if not, then you need to learn it now.

[This message was edited by YNLissa on July 30, 2002 at 01:42 PM.]

RedNeckCowGirl...hmmmmm, I really bet you're for real. I mean, even though I've never seen you post before, of course you just pop up out of nowhere on a subject like this with a screen name like yours. You're probably just someone trying to **** people off. That's obvious. Get a life.

personally I dont think its right. It even says so in the bible but I know different people have different opinions and I respect that fact and thats all this is.

There is no black and white about this topic like most things. You can't help who you like and who you don't. You can't make yourself like someone that's one thing if you know you like someone else that's completely different. Plus, this topic interracial dating is very unspecific. It can mean anything from your religion to your skin color to the country you came from. To my mind from any angle of this argument though if you like someone your going to want to be with them. Quite a few of my parents friends are interracial couples and they have been able to teach their kids what is right w/o sacrificing anything from their backgrounds. It is true that you'll want to help mold your kids into good people but you should also let them choose who they want to be b/c if you don't then they won't be able to take care of themselves when they're thrown into the real world.

im kind of late to the subject. But its a very interesting topic. I have a few questions. Marine16: did you read Mein Kampf? (Hitlers book) because it seems to me that your idea of the animals not breeding with different species is the same as his, and you both translate this idea to humans..

Then I would like to know who has a pure race here. Im guessing pretty much none of us.
How could you think it is wrong for a white eprson or caucasian date a black person or african american or african person?? whats your argument? dont you see everyone bleeds the same, everyone falls in love, everyone has the same organs inside, everyone goes through similiar experiences in life, everyone dies, everyone appears in the world in the same way, everyone smiles and cries the same way. Why does a color matters when its obvious inside we are all the same? We are in many more ways the same than we are different.

Little kids learn to mix the primary colors to form other ones, which are as well beautiful.
A long time ago there were almost no different colors, but know we have millions of colors, almost no one has an identical color, thats because theres almost no completely pure race. Does someone actually know how did different races originated??

When we become open to dating and marrying and having kids with people of other races we give a lesson to our own kidsm family and everyone else.

Bye, 0shorty0

My parents don't agree with interracial dating. They think that races shouldn't mix.I'm white and see here it's really more about whites getting with blacks and thats the thing my parents hate most.They would actually DISOWN me if I went out with a black, but my b/f is Mexican and they don't see anything wrong with that. One of my best friends is half'n'half, but my parents are okay with that. Another of my best friends grandmothers says that if God wanted us to go interracial then he wouldn't have made us different colors, but my friends say that maybe God didn't want us to care about the colors of people or what they look like or anything like that. It's all about what's on the inside and if you like him or not! If you like him, go for it and don't let anyone tell you who you can be with and who you can't! [LIST]

I've never done it, but I find no problem w/ it either! I think you should date or go out w/ someone who is nice and kind and who you can get along with. Not necessarily someone who is your same race! You love who you love....and people should respect that!

What is the big deal? I don't get it, I just don't get it!! I'm white, and my boyfriend is black/hispanic. Though we do get alot of awkward looks and stuff, it shouldn't matter! Love is love! If you wanna be with someone, be with them, who cares! I thought that this was an issue of the past, but I'm starting to realize that it's a problem of the present. SUCK IT UP PEOPLE!

My buds can relate. They are an interracial couple. even though it's becoming more common, they still get weird stares. I was higging my bud Josh and this couple came up to us and said if we were dating it is a sin before gid. what is uo with that?

What differences, other than the skin pigment of someone else, makes the races different. we're the same people. we're all human sorry you're going to have to explain that one.

all you people against interracial dating, i mean i really don't care that's you, but it just seems sad that if a pretty girl/guy you're totally attracted to, totally a match for was in your life and was all for going out with you, you'd throw away something potentially beautiful because the person was a different race.

Love is blind people. why don't you see that?

I can totally feel you Mariata. It's the same thing at my school. I feel like no one understood what i was going thru. But now i know people feel this way all over.

I think that interracial dating is great. I know from experience. My family is different like that. My mom is white and my stepdad is black. It is really great. Everyone loves my stepdad for the most part and the people that don't well we just say that they aren't worth and go on with our life. So you do what you feel is right and what you want to do. Your parents will eventually coma around and if not then maybe you could have a heart to heart talk with them and then maybe bring your boyfriend in to the conversation too and see what happens.

I am part Puerto Rican and part White so I know for a fact that mixed people are cool as hell. I have nothing at all against interacial dating I mean haven't you heard love IS blind color shouldn't matter.

I believe that if you are open minded enough, and you love your boyfriend/girlfriend enough, then when you get married and decide to have kids the fact that you have different cultures, beliefs, religios, colors of skin or whatever won't matter, cuz if you really want to make it work out, then you would sit with your husband/wife and talk about what would happen if you have kids, what religion you should teach them and what culture should they grow up with, or if youll mix both cultures and stuff. I think that the kids thing is a poor excuse for not marrying someone that is different (ethnically, or whatever) than you.

My dad is Christian, and my mom is Jewish. When I was 2 they divorced (but not because of religious differences). Now they are both pressuring me to choose a religion, and I'm not sure what to do. I'm thinking of becoming Jewish, but I don't want to upset my dad!

I'm not against interracial dating at all. My boyfriend is half black, and there isn't any tension between us at all.

--Britney

I think you two need to rethink your views on not only interracial marriages but your views on human nature too. First of all, it is obviously wrong for people to judge someone because he or she is in an interracial relationship. So to speak negatively about those kinds of relationships because of that is wrong. If some people thought it was wrong to eat, would you not do it? Second of all, I don't think you two have a good perspective on the subject. I'm an interracial kid. My mom is white and my dad is black. Sure, it has been awkward at times, but I don't feel "out of place" and I don't feel that my race has been messed up. Are you saying that race is just a color? It is wrong to group people by color, and the sooner you can learn not to do that, the more accepting you will be.

it doesnt meen it has to be the same race. i can like other races

Even if one doesn't go out just for fun, but for something to happen in the long run, I think it is great for people of different "races" and backgrounds to date and marry. If you love and respect one another, who cares what the other people say and think? In the long run, who will be with you, the person who loves you (although different) or the critics? I bet the people saying things won't be.
It is also a lot easier for children to grow up with different backgrounds, from my experience. On forms, you can just put "other" The kids will actually gain a lot of knowledge of different cultures and ways to think, instead of one. In case of religion, it might be hard when they are growing up and there parents are different religions, but when they are older, they are going to be the ones who choose what they believe, and no one else.

who ever was listing out the rules was a little off track. everything being said was about the topic and no one was using "foul" language

I do disagree with dating have to be for potentiial dating because I want to get to know different "types" of people and see what they are like. Types doesnt have to mean race but peolpe from all backgrounds so the person i marry doesnt end up driving me insane and so I dont have to get divorced. I really dont want to hve to go through either of those. I do agree that I dont go making out with people for, I think your word was, jollies. I think that expirience is life so I would like to try many things. Inter racial dating and inter religous dating are two things, but i think that it could work out in some situations.