The Pros And Cons Of Interracial Marriage

There are many points in human history where it was considered “forbidden” to have a personal connection to anyone that wasn’t within your race. There was not only social pressures to keep one’s choice within familiar boundaries, but laws that assisted in continuing this practice of keeping relationships and marriage within their own races. An example of this was the relationship between Mildred and Richard Loving. In the year 1958, not long after their wedding in Washington DC, both Richard and Mildred were arrested and thrown in jail due violating a law known as “Virginia’s Integrity Act”, which made interracial marriage against the law. The couple had to live in Washington to keep their marriage safe; however, it didn’t stop them from taking …show more content…
Studies have shown in the past that “…interracial couples often faced pressures in the forms of strangers’ angry stares and anger, and even rejection by their own racial groups because of their ‘betrayal’ and non-conforming behavior crossing the line”(Zhang). One of the reasons of behavior similar to this is known as “Skin Color Stratification”, a term meaning “…a process that privileges light-skinned people of color over dark in areas such as income, education, housing, and the marriage market” (Hunter). The impact in perception of interracial relationships is stated within “Looking Behind the Stereotypes of the "Angry Black Woman": An Exploration of Black Women's Responses to Interracial Relationships” by Erica Childs as the term “Skin Color Stratification”, “…exists in the Black community …where light-skinned blacks are evaluated as more attractive ...This undoubtedly plays a role in the views of black women towards interracial dating … the discrimination based on skin color may be associated with the decision to date …show more content…
As optimistically put in words by Hannah Seltgson, an author quoted in Alan Greenblatt's 'Millennial Generation', "'We are far less homophobic, sexist, and racist than our parents and grandparents,'...'We are the generation that played a critical role in electing the first African-American president...' "(Greenblatt). As more results come from research on the current generation of adults surface, it's easy to assume that the idea of a more racially tolerant generation is filled with truth. Despite the impression placed from research results and trends, Glenn Tsunokai’s report, “Racial Preferences In Internet Dating: A Comparison Of Four Birth Cohorts”, says the contrary as, “…whites and Asians were much less willing to date African Americans than Hispanics. Specifically, Asians were 31% and whites were nearly 24% less likely to indicate they would date African Americans.”(Tsunokai). The data meaning that when younger people are given the decision to date, they won’t be able to bring themselves to date different races despite optimistically stating that they are the most liberal

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