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Interracial dating: is it really accepted?
Arts&Entertainment
Sept 18, 2013 |
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Franchesca Renfroe
Illustration: Elaine Hoffmeister
Staff Writer
In today’s modern age, interracial dating has become popular. In a few decades, race will no longer exist because people have mixed so much. Although popular amongst younger generations, is interracial dating fully accepted in society? Cheerio’s tested that theory when they aired a commercial centered on an interracial family. The father was African American and the wife Caucasian. The commercial was released on the pretense that society had finally shed the bigotry that this country is known for. Sadly, the backlash of the video was tremendous when it was released on YouTube. Folks were even calling it disgusting. Even though the commercial was cute and the little girl was adorable, it is ‘disgusting’ because the parents were of two different races. Have the times really changed? Being an African American female raised south of the Mason Dixon line, my views on races are a bit skewed. My parents, who were both raised during times of segregation (it is not as far back as people would like to believe), had a set state of mind that they had to grow up with. The world, from a young age, was telling them that they were less because of their skin color. There may have been a time when they could have loved someone of a different race, but because of the hatred that filled America, they never acted on it. My mother, despite having to see the hideous effects of racism first hand, made sure that I was color blind as long as possible. I grew up loving my heritage. I grew up seeing African Americans doing positive things with their lives and meaning something to society. I was n