The Danger Of Unchallenged Racism In Interracial RelationshipsPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, United States on 2016-07-19 00:13Z by Steven |
The Danger Of Unchallenged Racism In Interracial Relationships
The Establishment
2016-07-18
It shouldn’t surprise me that interracial relationships are here to stay, considering that I’m in one. Still, I worry about the people in them. When I started dating “Kevin,” I was concerned about the demographics of the relationship. I worried about how it would play out with our families and friends, the rest of the world.
The one thing I didn’t really understand was how it would play out between us.
So I wrote about it. I wrote about how I’d desensitized myself to a lot of casual racism in my life as a survival tactic. I wrote about how I’d internalized anti-Blackness. Then I wrote about retuning myself to hear the anti-Blackness in my relationship, and subsequently having to address it with my white spouse before we ruined our marriage…
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