Setting the Scales on Interracial Dating

I’ve listened to several theories growing up on why bi-racial dating is wrong. The oldest theory that I can remember is that if the good Lord meant for us to be the same then he would’ve made us the same. With a few anatomical differences science tells us that we are somewhat all the same. It’s only by society and culture that tells us that we are different. Most times those differences that either promotes or discourages biracial dating are societal, superficial, fetish or hate driven.

As a child of the seventies and raised in the eighties and early nineties I remember a time when biracial dating was a societal taboo. The television and newspaper tabloids shoved down our throats of what was aesthetics and success looked like. TV advertisements for toys, luxurious cars, video games, foods and fashion all reflected White faces. Where reality further promoted this illusion is when I attended school and would see the White kids playing with their high dollar Tranformer toys and dressed like that image on the television advertisements and stepping out of their late model vehicles in front of the schoolhouse. Most Black kids at that time was stepping off of the bus. Where there were a few White faces on the bus, they were overlooked being that our eyes were only trained to see with envy the White kids that were mainly in autos.

Behind Enemy Lines

I once laughed and took it lighter than a grain of salt when I saw the movie “Higher Learning” shortly after graduating high school in a scene where Ice Cube’s character stated, “This is a war and we are behind enemy lines.” That statement alone for most would seem to be a bit extreme and met with ridicule. Let’s first examine how true this statement is and what extremes would motivate such a statement by defining what is an act of war.

In any war fought throughout history it was always considered an act of duty when the taking of a life occurred on the battlefield but in any other arena was considered murder and punishable by law. Florida’s “Stand Your Ground Law” somehow applied to the release of a civilian MAN who picked a fight with an unarmed CHILD who ended up dead as a result. For the fact that we live in a so called free society where people defended George Zimmerman is only evident that in their eyes, “Black Lives don’t Matter.”

Elderly Florida Woman Tossed in Pool was not a Hate Crime

Recently I seen where a Florida Teen tossed an elderly woman into a swimming pool during a party where Black teens were gathered. The video went viral and just like any viral video there is always a plethora of comments leading from extreme racism from the White side and house-nigger apologetic views from the Black side.  The biggest mistake is making this video a racial issue at all.

In no way, shape, form or fashion am I defending the stance of that teenager who forcefully picked the woman up, dropped her due to his clumsiness before picking her up and throwing her into the pool with her dogs. In my opinion when he dropped her, he should’ve checked on her well-being and the prank should’ve been over before tossing her into the pool without checking on her physical condition. He should’ve never put hands on the woman in the first place to be honest.