Interracial couples

As a transportation historian, I have read much over the years regarding segregation on public transport.

Most "northerners" assumed that, when boarding, an African-American passenger simply paid their fare, and then moved to the nearest "designated" seat.

But this was not the case.

African-American passengers, after paying their fare, had to go back down the steps of the bus, walk to the rear doors, and then re-board.

Many times, white drivers would pull away after an African-American passenger had paid their fare, and was walking alongside the bus, to reach the rear doors, leaving them stranded.

So sad and degrading........

"Live long and prosper"






As far as interracial marriage, true love knows neither color or race.......

 

My Father was born in Lawton, Oklahoma ..... he hated it .

 

My High School Sweetheart was half Black, she had Super Model looks, big breasts and an hourglass fit body .
I am of Hispanic ( Purepecha ancestry) on my Mother's side, Comanche on my Father's side and was a long haired / Heavy Metal guitarist back in the day .

I used to get some serious lip from the Hispanic girls . The way they would ask me , " Why her, why her " .... was so telling !!!!

We were together from 1982 to 1987 , until she had a change of heart .

 

No offense, Vladimir though, you seem to be master of understatement or else you are more familiar, than I, with big pockets! lol

I would suggest it's quite widespread geographically (if not by population) and the legislation drove it underground, similarly to the effect of "Prohibition", on drinking.

I get the distinct impression that a large portion of the USA (geographically) is split along the lines of color.

Yes, I would agree that there are many who have no issue with people of different ethnicities but pockets within some states and a large chunk of others eg the Carolinas, virginia, Georgia and some others, at best, they only have a veneer over the issue.

In my view it stems from fear, parental bigotry and their influence over their children's thought processes, and possibly and inferiority complex. Mostly cause d by ignorance and poor education/lack of education.

And those 'causes' I suggest, apply equally to the subject of immigrants and immigration.

My opinion only, though it's formed from having had long conversations with several thousand US citizens (red and blue), from all but about 3 states.

I've always wondered about the immigration issue - apart from the indigenous Americans, isn't everyone else an immigrant or descendant of immigrants? Not trying to trigger anyone but I was brought up to talk, discuss and learn. They day we stop learning is the day to shuffle off this planet.

 

From my prospective, I think MAGA has capitalized and targeted the lower intellect of Euro American society, the ones that live in isolated regions of America, where education was replaced by home schooling, defunding of education, constant fear mongering media hubs and lack of upward mobility in American society.
Before Equality was enforced, many Euro Americans had things handed to them due to race and not merit.
As soon as people of Color got educated enough to compete, many Euro Americans, especially in the American Southeast, Midwest, parts of the rural North West and Central California, found that due to their lack of drive for an education and lack of intellectual pursuits, fell behind many people of Color.
That is what MAGA harnessed was fear, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism .

Equality deteriorated their illusions of racial superiority, but also their delusions of having the upper hand in American Society .

 

I am Indigenous .
It is so mind blowing, when MAGA people bring up the " Race Replacement " Hoax .
It's racist Euro American pity party parlor games in their delusions of imagined Euro American victimhood .

 

During Trumps time as president all went well, economy, taxes, employment, crime, etc. etc. Biden's government for the past 3 and a half years
now has the middle class living from pay check to paycheck, can't afford to buy a home, food prices are out of this world.....and illegals..........

The only point Biden has is his support of abortion, That's what he expects to use for re-election then turn the United States into UNITED SOCIALIST
STATES.........live with that..............

 

That is also my opinion on interracial couples...

 

This is one of the most ignorant posts I have ever read in a social forum.

 

My great grandmother was a half-breed native American, and her mother and father moved out west to get away from all the bigotry. Settling outside a small town, within months the local boys showed up and made it clear, he could keep his squaw, but the kid had to go. They received the same reception at Indian reservation.

Interracial couples are only a problem, because mixing the races would leave racists hating themselves instead.

Sadly, racists tend to rapists, who rape people of a different race. Modern science has made the reason clear, with the invention of modern birth control. Their populations tend to be so full of crap, they're imploding faster than anyone else. They rape people of a different race, because their own population is struggling to reproduce, and its a cellular level pattern matching response. Their own brains have taken a vote of no confidence.

Racism itself is just the cells of your body demanding to make such distinctions, because your culture is struggling.

 

When you have a political party that keeps pushing the " white replacement" bull crap.
The thinning of white blood theory. And all of the other KKK -Nazi- White Supremist crap being preached. The yeah its there.

 

What really has happened during the Republican administrations is that the inequality of wealth in Americans has went into overdrive. Remember “trickle down”…..what a travesty. Biden has made serious inroads in to the elite paradigm but the wealthy control both the media and social electronics. We should be so lucky as to have a meaningful socialist force in the US.

 

I'm white but grew up in a very non-white area. My hometown is 82% Hispanic. The Native influence in this area is huge. Even if I was bigoted and only wanted to date my "own kind" or whatever, my dating pool would've been down to about 20 people. If you're not Hispanic, you'd have to date outside your race. My white (then) Catholic ass dated a Hispanic Jew throughout high school.

Dating outside my race was so normalized for me growing up, that race isn't even a factor any more. Right now I'm dating an Asian guy. But I don't think about it. It's not like, oh, I'm woke or exotic or anything. He's just the dude I'm seeing at the moment.

 

I'm from the South and 'race' has had nothing to do with anything in my life, it isn't even a thing past superficial differences. Like my hair is black and he's a blonde. I have never had sex with a non-white person just because the opportunity never presented itself, though I have done a lot of different things in my life. My Baby was married to a black woman from the 90s to about 15 years ago and he has told me (mostly in our traveling around) that they drove from the east coast to Texas and all over every state in between and they encountered far more pleasant people than racists. In my own frequent travels I have met some genuinely wonderful people of many different ethnicities and cultures.

And I have met more awful people of my own race than I want to remember.

Some of the junk I hear and read is just in people's minds, made up because too many people just don't have anything better or more interesting to do with their time, or because they think they're so fucking much smarter than 'those others'.

And of course watching too much idiotic junk TV doesn't help at all. Some people just need to get out more. Find out what the real world is really like.

 

Yep, some stereotypes just don’t die. I’ve lived all over the US and have seen more black/white couples in Texas than any other state. The state I’ve seen the least amount of black/white couples is California (but white/Hispanic couples are everywhere). That’s just my personal experience, not sure of the actual numbers.

Growing up in MA it was an issue. I lived in an all black section of Boston (Mattapan) and we had two black/white couples on our street. Their houses were targeted and vandalized multiple times. My aunt also had problems after she married a dark skinned Italian guy. The neighbors thought he was black and had racial slurs painted on their house and mailbox, and were subjected to racial slurs and death threats.

My sister and I both married Hispanics (we’re white). We actually married into the same family. My brother-in-law is my wife’s uncle. They’re first generation Americans from a Nicaraguan family. I’m not even sure if that’s considered interracial because Hispanics are considered Caucasians, but that combo seems to be the most common in the US. As strange as it sounds, my wife was called a “traitor to her kind” by a cousin, and someone I used to consider a friend actually called me a racist for marrying a Latina. I’m still baffled at that logic, especially since she’s a lawyer for the ACLU, but she’s never been known for rational thought. That conversation actually started with her claiming that you’re a racist if you don’t have at least one black friend, but it only counts if you invite them into your house at least once a year. She, ironically, has no black friends.

 

Strange thing is that according to the genome research project (or some thread of that huge undertaking) the general DNA of Italians is more closely related to one side of African Blacks - yes there are 2 different DNA strains - than they are to Caucasians. One may think that the darker complexion of Italians is a big clue.... But the fair-skinned blonde-haired blue-eyed Swedes share some of that same DNA group as Italians.

So how important really should race be in the human consciousness?

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Please note that the following article is on MSN which is not a right wing organization. in fact Bill Gates has contributed heavily to the other side for a long time.

Link:
MSN

A new study [2022] published by the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University found that only 3.4 percent of journalists identified as Republicans.

Those results -- as well as others that help explain them -- came from an online survey of 1,600 U.S. journalists conducted in early 2022.

The survey yielded two different types of valuable insight.

First, it presented a snapshot of modern journalism, including its unsurprising liberal bias.

Second, it showed remarkable -- and in some cases, unsettling -- changes over time. The 2022 survey, in fact, represents the sixth in a series of studies conducted every 10 years or so since 1971. .....

The survey found.... that the number of journalists who identify as Republicans has dropped by more than half since 2013's already anemic 7.1 percent.

But a longer view of the situation shows an even more precipitous decline over the last half-century. In 1971, the number of journalists who called themselves Republicans stood at 25.7 percent. .....

Only 7.4 percent of 2022 respondents, for instance, described "reaching a mass audience" as "extremely important." That number has plummeted with each successive survey since 1971, when it stood at 39 percent. ......

Lack of interest in reaching a broad audience suggests disdain for the masses. If journalists have no collective concern for informing the public, then where exactly do their concerns lie? Whose interests do they serve, if not the public's? .......

.... the masses have sensed journalists' disdain for them. No one lies to those whom they respect, and the establishment media has lied to the American people with astonishing brazenness.

Small wonder that fewer and fewer Americans trust the elitist liberal Democrat establishment media.

 

"no one lies to those whom they respect." Yes, I've been noticing that about trump ---although the trump cult doesn't see the connection there. By the way, can you point out some lies the "establishment media has lied about??

 

Where do I start??? But do this, every time you hear on the leftist media that Trump said this or that, why don't you look up the original source where Trump actually said something relating to what a journalist is describing. And then listen carefully to everything that he actually said in that context.

Youtube can be a good place to start. (Most search engines are biased toward leftism, just as journalists are.)

Other sources confirming the MSN article above
https://www.theamericanjournalist.org/post/american-journalist-findings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...licans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/
(2014) https://www.politico.com/blogs/medi...nt-of-reporters-identify-as-republican-188053

Different polls with similar results
https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2004/06/02/1919999/pew-study-journalists-and-liberal-bias
U.S. journalists differ from the public in their views of ‘bothsidesism’ in journalism
Q&A: How and why Pew Research Center surveyed almost 12,000 U.S. journalists

Twitter?
Twitter is the go-to social media site for U.S. journalists, but not for the public

Fact-checking? (2015)
Fact-checking and accountability journalism: Popular, effective — but sometimes misunderstood

Political donations
Fact check/Do 97 percent of journalist donations go to Democrats

.... an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI)... examined donations by journalists to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the presidential primaries and the first month of the 2016 general election campaign. CPI reported that more than 96 percent of those donations were made to Clinton.

The Center for Responsive Politics found that 65 percent of contributions from those identified as journalists went to Democrats in the 2010 election cycle. An analysis by MSNBC.com found that 87 percent of the 143 donors (who made contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign) gave to Democrats or liberal causes. The Media Research Center found that 94 percent of donors affiliated with five news outlets also contributed to Democrats between 2008 and 2016.

Now who do you think a huge majority of journalists are going to side with in their 'news' reporting?

Mark Twain:
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

 

I love how answering a simple question can be weaponized into propaganda.

 

If what you indicate is true, it comes down to which ideological bent is better for working people / citizens, IMO. I would aver that the left / dems are traditionally much more willing to share in the riches of the country than are the right / repubs. Look at the republican party of today, which is totally subservient to trump . Look at voting records of the two parties. There's no comparison, so I can see why ANY group of discerning citizens would donate the way you say journalists do.

Frankly, anyone that would vote for a crooked, lying, racist, admitted sexual assaulter is suffering from a lack of character.