Sam Jackson is in a theatre near you in Lakeveiw Terrace and he plays a cop who doesn’t like interracial relationships, and it makes you wonder if interracial relationship are still taboo. There have been plenty of films made about the subject, from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner  to Jungle Fever and Something Different, and they all have different takes that screen as hopeful and optimistic. But in reality, some Black people still have a problem with interracial dating. This could largely be regional: it’s common-place and casual to see interracial couples on the coast, but in the North and South, it can still provoke stares and snide comments. People also still believe that Black men choose White women as a sign of upward mobility. Sports figure are said to marry White women exclusively, but we can prove that isn’t true. Doesn’t matter. There is also some idea that Black men tend to date outside of their race more than any other. I don’t know that this has any truth to it at all, but Black men with White women tend to be more conspicuous and scrutinized differently than Black women with White men.

The biracial children that these couples often produce also have a hard way to go: they sometime struggle to find an identity in a country where so much is predicated by race. Having Sen. Barack Obama, a biracial man, run for president could change attitudes about it but it may be too soon to know.  What do you think?

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