The KKK says that people who mix the races should be killed. Should those of us who marry outside our melanin spectrum hide our love from the racists? Should media portrayals of interracial love be hidden because a racist might be provoked to violence?
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There's only one human race. We're all 100% pure-bred homo sapiens, except for KKK members, who appear to be misceganated with members of rodent or porcine species.
So I see no need to do anything or stop doing anything to appease the sensitivities of subliterate, subhuman loons. They're doomed to extinction, anyway.
Does anyone remember who performed the first interracial kiss on US TV?
Kirk and Uhura!
@Chimp3: Kirk and Uhura!
Right. It was done under duress by some kind of mind-controlling aliens, but that's ok because Kirk wasn't good enough for Uhura.
I remember.
I honestly don't believe there is any "pure" race anymore, or even that there ever was one. Human kind has mixed so much over so many generations, that multiple races can be found in almost every single person in the world. So to answer your question, I think "inter-racial" love is depicted in every person every single day. Some ignorant people just don't realize it or accept it. But to the typical understanding of inter-racial love being depicted, such as black with white, yes, I think that should be depicted in media just as often as same race love. I have no problem with it, and actually wish we'd see more of it in the media. People are people. We really need to stop putting everyone into categories. That just helps to further divide everyone, just like religion does. We need to stand together and just freaking get along.
Should it be hidden? Fuck no!!! Pardon my french
All love is interracial unless it is incest. In this day and age, I doubt if there are any pure races out there. All those KKK goofballs don't even know that most likely they are at least 3 % black.
This brings to mind something. The mormon church is the foremost authority on genealogy. The reason, of course, is to make sure the members, with exception of the token people of color, remain of European white backgrounds. However, even Brigham Young had a little African American in him. I doubt very much is Joseph Smith was of pure Dutch ancestry. This idea of an Arian Nation is so ignorant it isn't even funny. There were no pure Arian people. That was and is pure NAZI propaganda.
The Greeks, Romans, and all of the ancient people were mixed by the first century. A large portion of the Roman population was Carthaginian. The Egyptian had Nubian blood streaming through their veins.
By the 6th century, so many Europeans were mixed with Moorish DNA as well as other Mediterranean blood that a pure race was virtually extinct. Even the Asians were mixed by that time.
So every love depicted or otherwise is interracial.
@Mykcob4 "All those KKK goofballs don't even know that most likely they are at least 3 % black"
Try 100%. We all came out of Africa two or three thousand generations ago. All of the surface differences that people used to call "race" are either minor mutations or adaptations to local environmental conditions. Dark skin is a natural sunblock.
Pale skin allows people to absorb enough sunlight in cold climates. With more and more people moving across borders and living in identical urban environments, these skin-deep differences are likely to fade away over a few generations.
The prejudice against so-called interracial love is just another example of the evils caused by religion.
"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix" (Judge Leon Bazile's response in the Loving vs. Virginia lawsuit)
Thinking of human ethnicity in terms of race has always bemused me. I remember an excerpt from a book by professor Richard Dawkins where he hammered home the point that humans despite their disparate appearance had very little genetic variation in their genome because they are such a young species in evolutionary terms. I'll paraphrase the passage which went like this, If we tested the genome of any two humans no matter how disparate in ethnicity and appearance, so lets say for the sake of argument an Eskimo and Aborigine, then tested the genome of two gorillas living in the same forest, you'd find more genetic diversity between the gorillas than between the two humans.
To further emphasise his point about genetic diversity increasing in all species over time, he then stated that if you tested the genome of a zebra and a horse, you'd seem more genetic diversity than between the gorilla and human, whoo have a closer evolutionary ancestor linking them.
Humans have been successful in reproducing in vast numbers for a variety of reasons, but one is our ability to adapt to widely different environmental conditions, and this in turn has meant humans spread around the globe whose disparate appearance belies the fact there is very little genetic diversity between them.
**The idea there are separate "races" of humans with "pure blood" is beyond absurd, but then racism itself is absurd, a throwback to early tribal living where fearing strangers on sight might have been a beneficial trait to pass on to offspring, but that has no benefit in post industrialised societies, and is deeply pernicious to boot.
Yes love between ethnically diverse couples should be depicted, anything that helps destroy the moronic absurdity of racism is to be encouraged to be sure.