It had to be done, right? This thread needed a companion.
Some of y’all know I’m currently going through a divorce. You’re welcome to ask about it, although I’m not sure anything about the divorce itself pertains to our ethnicities. At any rate, we were married for a bit over 10 years, we met through a mutual friend on a BBS back in the day. Both of us grew up and have lived in the greater LA area all of our lives, and we’re in our mid-30s.
I think the black guy/white woman coupling is more common than the pairing from the companion thread, but maybe this’ll end up interesting anyway. We’ll see!
Not a question, but an observation of irony: I find it oddly humorous that I saw more mixed couples after I moved to Virginia, the last holdout of Jim Crow laws, than I ever did while I was in Indiana.
I can only remember one instance of a stranger saying anything – it was when we passed by a couple of guys who appeared to be skinheads (in San Francisco, of all places) that directed a racial slur at me while we were walking and holding hands. I’m not sure if that counts. As for family, my mom used to be “concerned” when I was younger that I wasn’t interacting with enough black women, but that seemed to have passed by the time I met my wife.
dhkendall, BobLibDem and MrDibble: racial humor was definitely fair game in my household in that manner, so yes, those kinds of jokes were made all the time. I don’t believe the “It’s twue” joke was ever made in bed, but I’m not sure either of us would have recovered from laughter it that had been the case. Of course, in the end, it turned out the old “Once you go black, you can never go back” joke wasn’t true at all…
