What is your opinion on interracial relationships?

race is about as relevant to the way I think about relationships as handed-ness or hat size

Interracial relationships, marriages and children are fine. Intercultural relationships sometimes have problems.

They're perfectly acceptable.

The gene pool is just all of the genes that are available to a population, they're still there if interracial relationships produce children. It isn't really changed by this.

Wouldn't we be such great big butt-holes if we actually had an opinion on interracial relationships?

Um, thanks a lot?

lol no I meant in a negative way...the point being that there shouldn't be different opinions about different-race relationships

I think interracial relationships are fine. I've been in them, in fact.

Like Warren beaty said in Bulworth, we should just all keep fudging till we're all the same color.

I haven't but not for lack of trying. No black woman has ever wanted to go out with me.

They are perfectly acceptable in my opinion.

I don't see a real problem with who someone chooses to date, marry, or have children with. I honestly don't give a damn who someone wants to be with. It is the person's choice, not mine. I have dated several people out of my race and they were just normal relationships. People do look at you like you've got serious problems, but I didn't care. I live in Southern USA and although many people date other races, there are a lot of racists here. But, I guess there are racist people no matter where you are.

They are completely and totally acceptable, in fact I have been involved in several in the past.

That's so true. There are plenty of racists on the West Coast as well.

Doesn't bother me.

They're perfectly acceptable. I've been in two of them.

I think on that point it doesn't really matter what your skin color is > ! ! !

Was that meant to sound like you specifically want to date a black woman? Well, I'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with them being black. I don't mean that in a bad way. You'll find the right person though.

I don't just ask ANY woman out. A sense of humour (preferabbly a twisted one), and intelligence are the big things for me, and I've met two or three unattached black woman who fit this bill, but not one of them had any interest in me, just like the White, Asian, and Latina girls.

I know, I know, I figured that. Just the way I read your comment the first time made it sound different.

It is up to the people involved. I think anyone has a right to have a relationship with anyone they choose.

Perfectly acceptable!

My marriage is interracial
(me being Hawaiian/Chinese/Scotch/Irish/Ameican Indian & David being Italian/Irish/Dutch)& no one even gives us a second look. & if they did,I'd probably confront them,too.

Our babies are beautiful!

I used to work at a day care center. The kids of interracial couples were all stunningly gorgeous in a noticeable way. There was one girl there that had tan-yellow skin, shiny gold hair and green eyes. CUTE!! Her mom is going to have to chase the boys off with a big stick!

Perfectly acceptable. I think kids of so-called "interracial" marriages tend to be really attractive also. People should just follow their hearts and others should not interfere; this is something between the two people involved and should be nobody else's bizness.

She sounds beautiful!!!! I love green eyes but with dark brown hair. When I was pregnant with my(now 19 year old)I used to tell David, "Honey,I wish our baby would be born,with green eyes & brown hair." He'd say to me, " It better not come out with green eyes,no one in my family has green eyes." & then he'd give me that look.>

I am the product of an interracial relationship. I loved my family. All of them. Sometimes it was hard though and I cried because I wasn't white. I hate being asked all the time to define my race in questions and forms and on applications for stuff. I don't know what to pick and mixed seems just fuzzy. I will admit (shamedly) to having negative thoughts when seeing some mixed couples. I tend to imagine that these people have self-esteem issues. I really need to think about that. Maybe its some form of projection.

I think it is acceptable. I do think that in many interracial marriages it takes more work to make them last because of some of the culture clashes and the prejudices.

To each their own! I have been in several interracial relationships in my lifetime and I am now very happily married (9 years) to a man who is not the race that I am. (I'm white, he's black). As far as the people who have a problem with interracial relationships, those folks just need to get past it! (They will probably choose to never get over it so just getting past it would be a plus.) Interracial dating/marriage is here to stay.

You are right, it does take some extra care to keep the relationship going well. You just have to ignore the mean and nasty comments and move on.

i am a strong beleiver in them actually, if you love someone it should not matter what the race they are.. love is colorblind .. and also i think that people who have a problem with interracial relationships are the problem themselves... there is nothing that matter with it. and it is a beautiful thing to see different races together, it is alot better than just the same old same old...

I am in an interracial marriage, and I did not realize it until 2 months after our wedding. I love my husband!

To me it is the same as gay relationships, if there is love that is all that matters.

Interracial parents having children benefits the gene pool.

I'm from the south and my family members are very racial, but I think that is due to the time when they were born. I on the other hand am very open minded compared to the majority of my family and I personally have no problem with interracial relationships. I believe that you can not choose who you love, and I know this goes for color as well. So yes, interracial relationships/marriages are perfectly acceptable.

Personally, in my opinion, interracial anything has a bad track record with me. A cousin of mine, the daughter of my uncle was raped by a black man and because of it I have a mixed cousin in the family now. That happened about 8-9 years ago however yet it still makes me bitter. To be perfectly honest, I don't approve of interracial relationships and I believe that it's harmful for a family and for the gene pool in particular. For instance:
#1: Interracial relationships and having children abruptly ends a long lineage of say an all-white family or even an all-black family thus casting sacrilege on your family name.
#2 I believe personally that it would be incredibly devastating on the mixed child or children. My cousin is always crying or is depressed because she feels different and would rather be white than what she is, a mixed child in an all white-European family.
3# I feel that interracial dating only builds and increases hatred and intolerance towards the two races involved, whether it be between the two families, the friends, or even the community in particular.
4# Interracial couples are often met with defiance and bad reputation once formed...it doesn't create a very suitable environment for the two.
In conclusion, I know I cannot stop interracial dating from happening but I would rather it not occur because there are far too many negativities that stem from them. Which is why I will always date within my race and secure an all-white family with all-white offspring. I feel that it's only beneficial if all races did the same. Co-existance between races, is of course acceptable in my book but mating between any different races is far too serious a matter. Leave one race's problems to it's own. White problems should be left to the White race as Black, Asian, Hispanic, Filipino, etc problems should be left within their's...I only think we'd be better off if we held this opinion as priority. Thats all for now, thanks.

I am in a relationship right now with a black man who is the most wonderful man I have ever met in my life and I have been married before (divorce now) and had 3 other relationships all with white men. He treats me like a princess. I have a child from my previous marriage and my son loves this man to death and does not care what color his skin is. No I never though I would be with a black man growing up but the only difference is the color of the skin. He loves me and I love him and we are planning a wedding. I don't care what other people say the way I look at it is I am happy and they must need to talk about someone because they are not happy.