Nothing, I’m still grounded.
You aren’t going to hear a lot of random people openly expressing their racist disdain about anything nowadays. That doesn’t mean everything is fine.
But all of them should get sunscreen!
I’ve heard of black women accusing white women of “stealing their men”, too.
My wife is black and we married in 1998 in Florida. Things were pretty well accepted in Florida at that time. Kentucky in 2006 was another matter. Although there was no hostility, it was hard to get anyone to acknowledge our marriage, it was like a mental block. Co-workers would always refer to me as her boyfriend. At restaurants we’d get asked if we wanted seperate checks about 60% of the time, whereas in Florida it has literally NEVER happened.
But yeah, given that Florida is the South, I figure by the late 90s at least it wasn’t a big deal. Early 90s I was still hearing the argument about worrying about the children but there wasn’t much conviction in those arguments at that point.
When I visited one of my former professors in 1964 and told him I was engaged, he asked me only, “Is she white?” I don’t think that was real question, however, which was, “Is she Jewish?” I suspect that for him, the two things were comparable, interracial and interreligious.
Incidentally, until 1967 it was actually illegal in VA and probably other southern states. Google Loving v. VA for details.
Hell, I married an Asian-American woman in 1980 and we still got disapproving looks.
In fact, my wife once asked me to get her the hell out of a mall because she did not feel comfortable. We didn’t go back there for 15 years.
When my cousin brought home a black man, the first question was “Is he Jewish?” Since he was, everyone was cool. He could have been purple, as long as he was Jewish. But that has more to do with the difficulties of living a Jewish life with someone who isn’t also Jewish than prejudice. A convert would have been fine as well.
They do. It just seems if one kid runs out for one day, it’s always one of the white-skinned tow-heads, never one of the olive-skinned brunettes.
Based on Gallup’s regular polls, approval of interracial marriage (specifically, “do you approve or disapprove of marriage between blacks and whites?”) didn’t pass 50% nationwide until after 1995. It was at 87% in 2013, and 4% in 1958.
At the time of Loving v Virginia approval was under 20%. If repeal of anti-miscegenation laws had been done on the “let the states decide” basis some advocate for same-sex marriage, it’s likely that in some states it would still be illegal today.
Were Hispanic-White marriages were fine? I mean one of the most well known TV shows of the 1950’s had a Hispanic-White couple (I love Lucy).
#BlackLivesMatter
I’ve heard that one many times, as well as the only reason black men date white women is because we white women have no self respect and will put up with their shit.
Both comments are disrespectful to black men.
My very Catholic Grandpa complained about having to spend time with, and I quote, all these Protestants at a cousin’s wedding. Unfortunately, prejudices will only die when those that hold them die and that can take a long time.
And in 1960 people were worried that JFK would be beholden to the Pope if I read correctly. How screwed up was that crap?
Then so much more recently Obama was both a secret Muslim and a radical black Christian at the same time as I recall.
My sister dated a black man for a short time in the early 1980’s. My parents were rather alarmed and had her meet an interracial couple their age (after only one date with the guy) so she could be told how difficult it would be for her. :rolleyes:
Of course, my other sister came out in 1977, things didn’t go well with my parents and still, to this day, they have problems with the idea of gay people. :smack:
It probably depended on the skin tone of the Hispanic partner. Desi Arnaz was pretty pale; he was probably the archetype of the “inoffensive Spanish guy.” If he’d looked more like Pablo Sandoval I suspect the American TV-watching public might have reacted differently. It wasn’t that long ago that Italian-Americans (and even Irish-Americans) were considered nonwhite, or that TIME stopped referring to every newsworthy Italian, Greek or Spaniard as “swart.”
Race is weird.
To continue with your TV example, Gene Roddenberry received hate mail for years after the Kirk/Uhura onscreen kiss (and would likely have actually been murdered if it was a black man/white woman, rather than the reverse). That was in 1968.
I grew up in the 1970’s in New Jersey and was friends with the daughter of one interracial marriage (Black father, Asian mother) and babysat the daughter of a second (Black father, Caucasian mother). I never heard about any trouble from them, which doesn’t necessarily mean they didn’t have any.
I dated black girls in Atlanta in 1978 - 1980. Nothing unpleasant was said, although I’m certain a lot of people disapproved (both black and white).
Interracial couples still turn heads.
No one says anything or gets upset. It’s so unusual that it’s impossible not to notice a Interracial couple in public.
It’s none of my business and I just ignore them. Just like all the other strangers in the restaurant.
Maybe in Arkansas, but it’s completely unremarkable here.