I wanted to speak to your comment regarding how people and Civil Rights groups react to the topic of Interracial Relationships.

People who equate conversations of interracial relationships with a good opening line during happy hour at the local watering hole would probably do so with the most tragic of news headlines. However, the fact that you run into this response regularly warrants some consideration.

What I’ve learnt through my research is the importance of being able to distinguish between ‘a people’ and ‘a culture’. A culture of mixed race or people of mixed union has yet to be established . I believe elements exist that may forge the foundation, but these elements have not yet converged to a collection of defining, identifiable traits.

So if the issue historically is about not letting two people of different race marry, then an embarrassingly logical focal point of the discussion will often be sex before food, clothing, music or folklore. If we draw from the history of gay marriage, at least on the surface the fight didn’t seem to be about sex between two people of the same gender but about the right for one culture to have the same rights as any other cultures. There was a graduation from a lifestyle to a culture. Until there is semblance of unity, mixed unions will continue to be counted by the twos both from Civil Rights groups and the general population - whomever they may be.

Thank you for letting me share my longwinded thoughts.

Ciao,

Francisco