After 40 years, interracial marriage flourishing

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18090277/ ^

[celejrm313]

NEW YORK - The charisma king of the 2008 presidential field. The world’s best golfer. The captain of the New York Yankees. Besides superstardom, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter have another common bond: Each is the child of an interracial marriage.

For most of U.S. history, in most communities, such unions were taboo.

It was only 40 years ago — on June 12, 1967 — that the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down a Virginia statute barring whites from marrying nonwhites. The decision also overturned similar bans in 15 other states.

[celejrm313]

I don't think it is marriages that anyone really cares about, it is the proliferation of baby mamas that tax money must support that don't register in some marriage survey.

[Long Island Pete]

[taxed2death]

“Yet some of the worst friction has been with her black in-laws. Kim said they accused her of scheming to take over the family business, and there’s been virtually no contact for more than a year.

“Everything was race,” Kim said. “I was called ’the white devil.”’

Call Jessie....call Fat Al!

Quick!

[trumandogz]

Yet another example of Judicial Activists interfering with States Rights.

/SARCASM

[wideawake]

Kerry Ann Rockquemore, professor of African-American studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, is the daughter of a black father and white mother, and says she is asked almost daily how she identifies herself.

Challenge.

[Rio]

Is the woman usually white in these cases?

[traditional1]

"Is the woman usually white in these cases?"

Look at the multi-millionaire black, and you'll find they prefer "trophy wives", usually blonde....

Quite obvious, but un-PC to mention.

[Graybeard58]

Anybody who doesn’t like the color of their skin can change it, M. Jackson did. By the way, what’s that perverted bastard doing nowadays?

[dfwgator]

Only in America can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich, white woman.

[Sonny M]

Is the woman usually white in these cases?

I used to think so, but from personal experience, I'm seeing more cases where the woman is black then white, granted I live in NYC, and am just going by what I see.

In the media with celebrities its the opposite though, or appears to be.

[marron]

Its not a big deal.

[trumandogz]

Many prominent blacks — including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, civil rights leader Julian Bond and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun — have married whites. Well-known whites who have married blacks include former Defense Secretary William Cohen and actor Robert DeNiro.

[El Gato]

Is the woman usually white in these cases?

Based on personal observation, yes, with the '70s and 80s generation, but that is changing, and fairly rapidly with the current "marrying age" generation.

[newgeezer]

The world’s best golfer.

From just looking at them, I'd have no idea Zach Johnson's marriage is interracial. /s

[newgeezer]

more cases where the woman is black then white

Kind of like Michael Jackson, huh? ;O)

[socrates_shoe]

>> Is the woman usually white in these cases?
>
> I used to think so...

According to the 2000 census figures, black men are about 2.5 times as likely to have a white wife as black women are to have a white husband:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/phc-t19.html

[GATOR NAVY]

...and says she is asked almost daily how she identifies herself.

How about human? Or American?

I'm white, my wife is Japanese. I hate it when the government wants to racially categorize my kids on forms. I always leave it blank.

[LongElegantLegs]

Meanwhile, though, there are frustrations — such as school forms for 5-year-old Justin that provide no option for him to be identified as multiracial.

This is retarded. Just check whichever box is more likely to get the kid into college on a quota. Duh.

[MIT-Elephant]

In the academic world I run into lots of mixed White/Asian people. It’s not anything we really take note of.

It’s not like multiracial people are hybrid organisms like mules.