Multi-racial+and+bi-racial

There are many multiracial and biracial people in this world. About 6.8 million people (2.4% of the population) were involved in an interracial marriage in the year 2000. The three most common mixed races are white and black. Other races like Mexican are common but all sorts of races do mix. Even though there are many different racial mixings that does not mean that the world is okay with this. A lot of people are against mixed relationships or mixed people. There are many people that try to limit the amount of mixed relationship and people. The Jim Crow law in the South and the Black Codes in the North were both scared about multi and bi racialism. They were scared because the white people did not like the black people, which made the black people not like the white people. Because of the hate, the people were not happy when the races were mixed. Even though whites liked whites, if they were somehow mixed with a black person, it didn’t make anybody happy. The blacks and the whites were totally different and there were many laws to separate them. These laws were made because they didn’t like each other, they didn’t want to be together, and they were afraid of multi and bi racialism. When someone was mixed with the opposite race, it was looked down upon. Some people even say that mixed people are inferior to black people. In an article on CNN, it mentioned how a Louisiana Justice of Peace, Keith Bardwell, would not marry a couple, Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay, because they were a mixed race couple. The couple ended up suing Bardwell and getting another Justice of Peace to marry them. In the end, Bardwell decided to quit. Some people take the fact that their race and another race, that they do not like, coming together is a bad thing and blow it out of proportion while other people don’t care. Also, during the elections of President Obama people were making racial comments that were not proven to be true. Since President Obama is our first black president and he was the first black candidate to make it so far in the election, people were accusing the blacks of voting for Obama because of his skin color. Many people were saying that the blacks don’t even know the views of Obama and that they only voted for him because of his skin color. People also said that the only reason he won was because all of the black people voted for him. Obama is not technically all black though. He is half white and half black so many people didn’t understand the concern. Allegedly, many white people did not vote for Obama because of the fact that he is partially black.

For those people that are a mixed race or are in a mixed race relationship, they have a very hard life. For example, if a person doesn’t like black people they will not like a mixed race person because of the black part in them. This person will not care about how they are somewhat white (this will give them a plus), but the whole idea of them being sort of black makes this person not like them. It is not a couples fault for falling in love even though they are different races, and it is not the child’s fault that they are a mixed race. The child has no say in whether or not the parents had them and that they are two different races. I know a couple who was having marital problems because she was white and he was black. People would give them a hard time and question if they were really in love and how they could love each other. This made them question themselves because of their peers and they were very close to divorce. When they were out at dinner, they would get stares and the waiter would ask if they wanted different checks because they didn’t assume they could possibly be married. When people are in mixed racial relationships, the one place that gives them a very hard time and doesn’t let the topic go is usually the parents. The parents of each person in the relationship will usually have comments or remarks about the relationship and they don’t think that it could ever work. It is very hard when your parents are not supportive but some people are so in love that they don’t care. A lot of people do not let these hard times stop them from being happy or mixing with another race, but some people do let it affect them and stop their lives to make their peers happy. Also, some people look down upon in the first place and don’t even let love take its course; they just say from the beginning that it is not okay and it can never happen. > >

What I would like to do next... I would like to interview a mixed race person or somebody in a mixed race relationship. This would either involve recontacting the mixed race couple that was having relationship problems or finding somebody new to interview. I would also like to take a look at the book "[|Just Don't Marry One]". This book is about interracial dating, marriage, and parenting. Finding statistics and maps on how many and where mixed race people or couples are would be a good thing to add to my wiki. Also, I would like to go into more detail about interracial marriage, like with the Loving v Virginia case and the 1967 Supreme Court Decision, which is the law about interracial marriage. I want to find more information that will intrigue my reader and teach them something that they didn't know before they read my page. In order to intrigue my reader even more, finding more pictures of different races coming together would help out a lot. 


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 * 1) There are many multi-racial people (usually black-white mix)
 * 2) Many people do not accept multi-racial relationships or babies
 * 3) People try to limit the amount of multi-racial relationships or people
 * 4) The Jim Crow law in the South and the Black Codes in the North were both scared about multiracialism
 * 5) People say that multiracial people are inferior to blacks
 * 6) People did not want blacks and whites together because they were afraid of multiracialism
 * 7) Article from Mr. Goldberg about a pastor that wouldn’t marry a couple that was interracial
 * 8) There was so much racial discrimination in the past, from whites not liking blacks, so blacks do not like whites… this makes it so that each race still has hard feelings towards each other and they do not want their own race mixing with the opposite race
 * 9) People don’t just not like having relationships that involve both blacks and whites, they do not want multiracial babies because this means that have come together with whites
 * 10) Each race doesn’t accept the multiracial person because they are still part of the other race…and this isn't okay to a lot of people
 * 11) Example:
 * When Obama was running for president, people were spreading rumors that all black people were voting for Obama because of the color of his skin
 * Then both black and white people started second guessing themselves on whether or not to vote for him because he is both black and white
 * 1) Blacks are biased towards whites
 * 2) Whites are biased towards whites
 * 3) All of this makes it so that people are not accepting of multi racial or bi racial people/ relationships because they don’t like how half of the people that they don’t like, are involved with this one person
 * 4) For example: if a person doesn’t like black people…they will not like a mixed race person because of the black part in their race…the person will not care about how they will white (this will give them a plus) but the whole idea of them being sort of black makes the person not like them

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