take a step out of your race for once...
We should discuss interracial families because that seems to be a problem in society now a-days. The first time I had seen an interracial commercial was a Cheerios commercial that a lot of people (white people) were debating about. In the commercial, there was a white little girl and a white woman and the little girl poured the Cheerios over her black father’s heart so it can stay strong. I do not understand how this can be so controversial in the 21st century, when racism “does not exist”. Many people strongly wanted this commercial off the air because of the message it was sending, which was nothing bad just a happy family that was interracial.
I feel like this is important topic because racism should not exist even though some people are stuck in the 1800’s so they cannot look pass racism. This topic is kind of personal for me because I come from a very interracial family. My mother skin color is very pale even though she is black and white but my father has darker skin and is only African American. I grew up with two different kinds of grandmothers, one was from Alabama which is extremely racist. One time I was in Alabama with my father’s mother and as we were walking down the street someone walking pass said “that must be an Oreo child, you know half nigger half white.” I was younger so that statement did not mean much to me but my grandmother was extremely offended and ended up saying something to the person. To this day I do not understand why it bothered that person so much that I was lighter than my grandmother. I thought he was just being an asshole but my grandmother told me it bothered them because it was not something they are used to in the south.
I feel that we should discuss this topic because I would love to know other people opinion on this topic. On social media, there is a lot of black males who say “I would never date a white woman because they cannot cook” as a joke but how can you say all white women cannot cook if you do not know all of them. It is not only black males on social media that tend to make joke about interracial couples. Lately there is this African couple, he is white and she is black, they got married and had a baby but somehow they were floating all over social media for negativity because of their skin color not because they are truly in love. I never seen the issue with this topic but lately everyone has some type of controversy about it. I just feel this is more of a group discussion were we just it in a circle and talk about it. Before we sit in the circle I think we should write down how we feel about it.
I agree with you! Now a days you definitely see the problems arising with interracial families and it can honestly cause very big arguments and discrepancies between not only the families but others around them. I'm not sure if it's truly a good topic to talk about in class, but it is a good topic that you're thinking about and I agree with you on it that it needs to be more publicized!
