Stop Terrorizing Us With Your Half-Baked Takes on Interracial Relationships
There’s nothing easy about interracial relationships to begin with. And not enough people are honest about it. It’s a new year! Which means it is time, yet again, for another terrible-ass take on interracial relationships. Too on the nose? Yeah, but you’d
Dating and Black Womanhood: On The Bachelorette’s Rachel Lindsay and Interracial Love
When it comes to who Rachel Lindsay will choose in the end, it shouldn’t be about race. It should be about who she loves and has built a solid foundation with. By TIFFANIE WOODS Dating as a black woman is hard. Dating
No, Interracial Love is Not “Saving America”
Upholding interracial marriage as proof that we have overcome racism reinforces the idea that racism is primarily about individual acts of prejudice, rather than about systemic (and collective) vulnerability to state violence.
BY LISA HOFMANN-KURODA
This year is the 50th anniversary of Loving vs. Virginia, the famous Supreme Court case that officially overturned state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Predictably, this has been accompanied by a flurry of events, films, articles, and even songs celebrating this moment as a milestone in the history of America’s journey toward racial equality. At a mixed race conference I recently attended, larger-than-life photographs of Richard and Mildred Loving, the white man and black woman whose relationship inspired the court case in 1965, adorned the walls. There and elsewhere, the Lovings were portrayed as “heroes” whose love valiantly overcame the racism of their time. Just today, the New York Times proclaimed that interracial love was “saving America.” Statistics show that interracial marriages in the U.S. are on the rise, and this undoubtedly reflects a shift in attitudes toward race in the American population overall. However, there are several reasons why using interracial marriage as proof of racial progress in our society is not only misleading, but harmful. First, state recognition of partnership often functions as a superficial symbol of progress, obscuring deeper issues of violence and inequality for the most marginalized members of a community. For example, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015, many heralded this as proof that queer people had finally been accepted into mainstream society.Related: YOU DON’T GET TO BE AN AUTHORITY ON BLACKNESS JUST BECAUSE YOU FUCK US
Should We Care If #WokeBae is Creeping With Becky With The Good Hair?
Jesse Williams isn’t the first (and won’t be the last) Black man to date non-Black women. But that’s also not necessarily the point. by Cameron Glover Jesse Williams and the #WokeBae collective: it’s high time that we have a talk. Of course, Jesse
Saying “I’m Not Into Black Girls” Isn’t a Preference. It’s Racist.
Under white supremacy, black women can be lots of things -- but they aren't seen as dateable. Guess what? White people who believe this are racist. One of the timeless -- but no less relevant and humanistic -- cliches we issue to ourselves