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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze
Wow, bless you for sticking to your guns in Texas! No, that pun wasn't intended!  I can't believe the nerve of that woman, ugh! And that story she told, do people really believe that BS? Jeez.
There is still plenty of resistance to interracial couples. It is very sad. The last guy I dated was black and he said that he hadn't met most of the fathers of the white girls he dated. We also got some very awful looks when we went to dinner one nite, some people are just jerks.
I don't know how I would do in a red state. I have that feeling the sky is falling already, I think I would figure it was the end of the world.  |
Thank you!
For the most part, people don't look twice at us. But we do definitely get our share of dirty looks. Unfortunately, there still are plenty of people who think interracial couples are disgusting. The last place we lived in the Chicago area had it's fair share of narrow minded people. One time, my husband was at the grocery store with our son, who was about 2 yrs old at the time. My son is very light skinned, so many people don't realize he's mixed. Some old guy came up to my husband and said something to the effect of "It's amazing, you can take a white child out of his natural environment, and put him in a Negro environment, and he will take on the characteristics of a Negro."
My husband responded "Yes, it is all about the the environment you're raised in, isn't it?" Of course, that totally went over the guys head! My husband also has had teenagers in that same grocery store walk past him and sarcastically say to him "What's up, homey?" Unbelievable!
Just goes to show, though... as much as I bitch and moan about moving from a Blue state to a Red state, it can happen anywhere! We actually got more of that type of stuff up North than we do here. But overall, politically, it is definitely way more conservative where we are now. After what happened with the old biddy yesterday, we figure having the sign in our yard may show us who the most narrow-minded people in our neighborhood are. Then we won't associate with them!