What Are Your Thoughts On Inter Racial Marriages Do You Approve?

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  1. Bobby Cole

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    I think the better word might have been, tolerant rather than, “ don’t totally approve” just to allay any misunderstanding.
     
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  2. Sheldon Scott

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    I once told her that if anything ever happened to my wife.....she's next. One of my all time favorite people.

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    I have 11 great grand children only two are white.
    The bad thing is the fathers of six of them are bums and as useful as boobs on a bore hog. I don't think color is an issue..but cultutural differences is a big issue.
     
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    I don't need to be asked that question because I did. I must approve of it.
     
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  5. Ann Leonard

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    In 2020, I don't think race is relevant to a relationship. If a person makes you happy, that's all that matters
     
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  6. Ken Anderson

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    If race isn't a consideration for the two people who want to be married, then there's no problem with it. It's no one else's business. Whatever the situation, there will always be someone who disapproves but any two people who truly love one another will ignore them.
     
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  7. Silvia Benoit

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    Well...while I don't care who a person marries, I witnessed -more than few times during my tenure as a teacher- interracial kids being discriminated by their classmates. Mainly they were rejected by kids of their own races.
     
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  8. Von Jones

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    That has to be one of the most hurtful scenes to witness happening with our youth today in society as a whole.
     
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  9. Martin Alonzo

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    My Children are the only whites in the school and have no problem. I guess the children in the Dominican Republic have not been programed to hate
     
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  10. Silvia Benoit

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    The discrimination I was referring to was different. The black kids didn't like them because they were only 50% black...the same with the whites.

    BTW, I am always asked "Why you speak Spanish, you have blue eyes."
     
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  11. Martin Alonzo

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    If you noticed my wife is a dark color and our children are only half white but look all white. I think in school they learn to hate they are not born with it. My wife's father could pass off as Haitian.
     
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  12. John Brunner

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    I bet there are more (or at lest the same number of) blue-eyed nativeSpanish speakers than dark-eyed.
     
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  13. John Brunner

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    I disagree.

    I think the "how can I call out your differences so as to validate my membership of this group [tribe]"behaviour is innate. It goes beyond race.

    I'm not saying it's a good thing, but I don't believe that it's learned. It can either be ignored, reinforced or discouraged...but written on a clean slate? I'm not certain of that.
     
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  14. Silvia Benoit

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    See, to frame a person "in a race" because his / her place of birth is as ignorant as it comes...specially when people have been migrating since ever. In Argentina you have people from all corners of the world....so, you see blue eyes, green ayes (Irish), brown eyes from Italy, black eyes from the ME, gray eyes...red, blond, brown, black hair....
    No idea how many blue-eyed people were born in Argentina........but in my family alone we were 34.
     
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  15. Cody Fousnaugh

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    Well, I've stated this before: the high school I attended, in a small farming town in northeastern Indiana, which was a "consolidated" one, meaning two different townships and grades Kindergarten to Seniors , there was only one black family and never once seen them.

    Unfortunately, just like young kids from gay and lesbian couples, interracial kids get picked on quite often. If the parents are quite a "racist" feeling, this "feeling" will go into their kids.

    Wife and I have only known one interracial couple. The husband met his Philippine wife when he was in the Marines, stationed in the Philippines. She was very nice and made the most delicious fried shrimp/rice dish.
     
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