APPARENTLY NEARLY ONE IN FIVE AMERICANS THINK THAT
INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE IS MORALLY CORRUPT.
ACCORDING TO A POLL THAT ASKED AMERICANS ABOUT THINGS
THAT THEY THOUGHT WERE ACCEPTABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE,
ALMOST 20% OF AMERICANS SAY THAT INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
IS
UNACCEPTABLE.
NOW THERE IS A PARTY DIVIDE THERE.
THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE AMONG RESPONDENTS BY
RACE WHICH IS INTERESTING, BUT:
LOTS OF INTERESTING THERE, BUT
IT IS INTERESTING, PEOPLE WHO
THOUGH
INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE IS MORALLY WRONG IS WAY HIGHER THAN I
THOUGHT.
I'VE SEEN THOSE RESULTS IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES IN
ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI WHERE 21 AND 29% THOUGHT, REPUBLICAN AND
VOTERS, THOUGHT INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE SHOULD BE ILLEGAL, SO I
KNEW THAT IDEA EXISTED, I JUST DID NOT KNOW IT WAS THIS LARGE
AND THEN, IS IT SURPRISING THAT MORE REPUBLICANS THINK THAT?
OF COURSE NOT.
BUT 12% OF DEMOCRATS WHO THINK THAT IT IS
MORALLY WRONG AND I AM GOING AWAY BY THAT AND THEN WHEN
THEY SHOWED THE BREAKDOWN I WAS LIKE ALL RIGHT, THAT IS AN
INTERESTING POINT, NOT ONLY WHITES BUT BLACKS AND
LATINOS, SOME OF THEM THINK IT IS MORALLY WRONG.
I AM DISHEARTENED BY THAT AS WELL.
LOOK, EASY FOR ME TO SAY, I AM IN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE AND I
HAVE BEEN A NONSTOP INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND I GREW UP
IN A MULTIRACIAL WORLD IN NEW JERSEY AND SO I AM BLOWN AWAY BY
THE IDEA OF PEOPLE THINKING IF IT IS A DIFFERENT RACE, YOU
SHOULD NOT BE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM.
I LITERALLY CANNOT COMPREHEND IT.
WHY?
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
ALSO YOU ARE A MORAL ATHEIST.
I THINK THE SMALL PARTS OF THE OTHER RACES BELIEVE THAT ARE
ALSO SOME OF THE ONES THAT WILL THINK, I DO NOT WANT NECESSARILY
WANT MY FAMILY MEMBER TO MARRY SOMEONE OF ANOTHER
RACE THAT THEY THOUGHT HAVE OPPRESSED THEM, SOME OF TIMES
THAT IS THE THING WITH THE MINORITY.
YOU DON'T END UP IN A SITUATION BECAUSE IT IS BAD FOR YOU, WHICH
ARE ALSO WRONG, BE WITH WHO YOU WANT AND BE HAPPY BUT
THAT MAY BE ONE OF THE REASONS I'M COMPLETELY GUESSING.
WHAT IS INTERESTING THOUGH, THE THING THAT IS REALLY
SHIFTING THE MINDSET ABOUT INTER-RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS
AND MARRIAGES IS ACTUALLY ONLINE DATING APPS.
THAT IS ONE POSITIVE DEFINITELY
FROM DATING APPS.
I AM IN THE SAME BOAT AS YOU, I AM IN AN INTERRACIAL
RELATIONSHIP NOW AND I HAVE BEEN THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, AND SO
IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME.
IT IS A LOGICAL, BUT I UNDERSTAND.
IF YOU ARE IN ONE SOCIAL CIRCLE AND NOTHING BEYOND THAT,
HOW YOU MIGHT BE CONFUSED, RAY?
YOU JUST MIGHT BE A LITTLE CONFUSED.
I GET THAT THERE IS A GROUP OF FOLKS WHO MIGHT THINK ALONG
THE LINES OF WHAT JR POSTULATED THERE AND IT IS NOT LIKELY
HAVE NOT HEARD FOR EXAMPLE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN
SAYING BLACK GUYS SHOULD NOT GET MARRIED TO WHITE WOMEN.
IT IS OUT THERE, SOME FOLKS DO SAY THAT.
AGAIN, I DO NOT AGREE WITH THAT, BUT OVERALL, IS IT MORE OF
A CONSERVATIVE THINK WESTERN YES.
LOVING VERSUS VIRGINIA WAS ONLY ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO.
UNTIL JUST 50 YEARS AGO BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE WERE NOT
ALLOWED TO GET MARRIED TO ONE ANOTHER AND SOME OF OUR
STATES, SO DOES THE CULTURE STILL REMAIN?
IT REMAINS SO MUCH SO THAT ONLY 20%
OF REPUBLICANS AND RIGHT-WING REPUBLICANS THOUGHT THE
INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE WAS EVEN A GOOD THING.
ONLY 28%.
WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS I GUESS.
BUT VERY SLOWLY.