They’d always wanted me to have a white boyfriend growing up, out of an internalized racist view of white males as superior not only as partners but as people, and when I came out as a lesbian, the “boyfriend” part was off the table, at the very least.
In 2014, 37 percent of Americans said having more people of different races marrying each other was a good thing for society, which is an increase from 24 percent four years earlier.
But we shouldn’t mistake those changing attitudes as evidence that we’re living a post-racial society.
Are they not just agreements between two people who find something beneficial in each other?
Ideally, people would date because, you know, they love each other or whatever, and the “benefits” would mostly be emotional and sexual.