Interracial dating – Who Cares

One of the largest indicators of a culture in decline is an obsession with purity. Such cultures begin creating rules and regulations that condemn the inclusion of new bloodlines within its ethnic group begin to stagnate and then decline. Those African Americans who obsess with racial purity are fighting a pointless battle that serves only to distract us from more important issues. There are several different reasons for this.

Reason 1:

There are 40 million Blacks in the United States and our population is growing. Not all are African American, but in all likelihood those who are not will join the larger African American community to the benefit of both groups. The culture of African Americans is not likely to disappear anytime soon and interracial dating is not a threat to our culture or peoples ability to succeed in the United States.

Reason 2:

The mixing of different ethnic groups is actually good for the species. Races or ethnic groups are people who have a common ancestor. One is more closely related to a person of one’s own ethnic group than to someone of a different ethnic group. Because of this, genetic diseases that are prevalent in your own ethnic group are less likely to be passed on to your children if you have babies with someone of a different ethnic group.

Reason 3:

It, like so many other issues that we let consume our time and energy, doesn’t really make much of a difference. If every African American in a mixed relationship were to break off said relationship, we’d still have the same problems. Teenage pregnancy, high crime, high murder rates, educational under achievement, etc have nothing to do with interracial dating and marriage so why focus on such a silly issue.

Reason 4:

We are mixed anyway. If you’re African American you’re probably descended from mixed race people. While a great many of those mixed race people were the product of rape, not all of them were. Some of them are from relationships that two people had where they loved each other despite the odds. To be African American is to be descended from Whites, Blacks, and Native Americans, and in a few cases Asians. So racial purity, whatever that means, is impossible.

Reason 5:

I’m in a long time relationship and they are hard work. We come from two different cultural backgrounds, she’s a Luo from Kenya and I’m an African American from Detroit. When it comes down to it, you love who you love. Who are we to tell someone who has fallen in love with someone of a different ethnic group who they can date? If you find someone who can put up with you for the next 50 to 80 years you don’t check their pedigree you hold on to them.

In short, obsession about interracial dating is foolish and pathetic. It’s what dying cultures are concerned about. We are a vibrant and growing people and interracial dating and marriage does not hurt us.