Interracial dating
I used to wonder if my perfect mate was going to be black.  I wondered if God was for or against interracial dating and marriage.  I stopped thinking about a perfect mate.  He'll come along when he gets ready.  I have been wondering about God and interracial dating, and one day something came to me.  I realized that in the beginning God created us different but still in the image of Him.  He made us so that we could survive where ever we lived.  With my very light skin I would never make it in places in the world that are so hot.  Now, that we have air-conditioning and the like we can live about anywhere and survive. 

I saw a TV commercial one day about 6 years ago that will always stick in my mind.  It was about mixed kids and why they are so beautiful.  It said God made them so extraordinarily beautiful to help them through the tough times.   

I started looking at these kids, and they are beautiful.  If they are black and white, or asian and black or hispanic and white, or asian and hispanic.  They all seem to be so exquisite. Of course my son is the cream of the crop.  

So how can something so wrong make such beautiful babies?  I figured it out.  It must not be wrong. 

I still wonder if I am suppose to be with a black man?   Am I suppose to put my family through the pain?  I think that they would accept it if they knew he was from God.  I can imagine the family reunions.  But we already have one black person coming there, my son.  If they don't mind my son why would they mind Mr. Right? 

So why is there this big thing about not dating outside your race?  That I can't understand.  We have freedom of speech, and that right about bearing arms, but why such the ramble gamble about dating outside your race?  So the idea of "keeping the races pure" has got to be the most racist thing I ever heard. 

One night my ex and I had a couple over to our house.  Shorty (is my best friend here in Texas, even though she lives in San Antonio.) and her boyfriend at the time.  We got into this big discussion started by my wonderful ex about 40 acres and a mule.  He was being totally racist in everything he said, to even include interracial dating.  I asked him why the hell did you marry a white girl? 

That question is one of the first I ask a Black Man that I am seeing?  Why are you attracted to white women?  The worse answer I can get is the "I love the contrast of skin color when I am making love to a white woman."  What?  Better responses would be "I don't discriminate, I like women of all colors."  or  "All I have ever dated is white women, I don't know anything else." 
 
There isn't much else to write on interracial dating.  I do believe my Mr. Right is black.  I think God wants me to make a difference in this racist world. 

So the next time you see a interracial couple just remember they are trying to make this a better world for us to raise our kids.  I want to say thank you to the pioneers for paving the road for us.  I love seeing an older couple with grown mixed kids; it soothes my heart.