Changing face of American race relations

[SchoolofSoul]

Wasn't quite sure just where to post this, but here seemed all right.

I saw this posted on another message board I frequent (membership there is largely white):

83% - Approve Interracial Dating

More than eight-in-ten Americans (83%) now agree that "it’s all right for blacks and whites to date," reflecting the most dramatic change among the racial attitudes tested in Pew polls--as recently as 1987, the public was divided virtually down the middle on the issue, with 48% approving of blacks and whites dating and 46% disapproving.

Age is an important factor in attitudes toward interracial dating. In this regard, Pew surveys since 1987 have documented two complementary trends: Each new generation is more tolerant than the one that precedes it.

At the same time, members of each generation have become increasingly tolerant as it ages. Together, these trends help explain the increase in expressions of tolerance toward interracial dating in recent decades.

Nearly two-thirds of all Americans born before 1946 (65%) say it is acceptable for whites to date blacks. In contrast, this tolerant view of interracial dating is shared by more than eight-in-ten Baby Boomers (84%) and members of Generation X (87%), who were born between 1965 and 1976.

Among younger people there is even broader acceptance of interracial dating: 94% of those born since 1977 say it is all right for blacks and whites to date.

There have also been striking changes since the late 1980s in how people of different races view black-white dating. In 1987-88, fewer than half of whites (44%) said that interracial dating was acceptable; that number has nearly doubled (to 81%) in the current survey.

Two decades ago, about three-quarters of blacks (74%) felt interracial dating was acceptable. Today, nearly all African Americans (97%) believe that interracial dating is acceptable.

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It's not perfect, there remain strides to be made, but it's impossible to deny the progress that American society as a whole has made in this regard. And with trends showing newer generations to be increasingly colorblind, the future seems to bode well on this issue.

What are your thoughts on this news, and/or on the comment?

[UglymanCometh]

I'm glad to see that mainstream America thinks that my past relationships were "acceptable".

[ardamus]

At this point, people are going to date who they want. You can't interfere with personal preference of someone's attraction to another.

[Capn Birdseye]

Why should colour come into it? If someone finds another attractive & interesting surely thats enough.

[Chinky]

Hate to sound like a hater but I'd like the future to have the existence of Chocolate ppl, as opposed to mixed.

[JABOOM]

Originally Posted by Chinky

Hate to sound like a hater but I'd like the future to have the existence of Chocolate ppl, as opposed to mixed.

Thank you it's apporved because it will erase a need for true social change. If there is no ppl of color then all the work of the past for racial justice will be for nothing

[Samoon]

To each his own...

[ardamus]

Originally Posted by Chinky

Hate to sound like a hater but I'd like the future to have the existence of Chocolate ppl, as opposed to mixed.

if thats what you feel then fine.....other people will feel the same way but it won't stop mixed babies from being brought into the world.

[Samoon]

Originally Posted by SchoolofSoul

Wasn't quite sure just where to post this, but here seemed all right.

I saw this posted on another message board I frequent (membership there is largely white):



Here's what the original poster had to say about this news:


What are your thoughts on this news, and/or on the comment?

Interesting...and what are your thoughts on this? Thanks.

[Da Flash]

I think that when it's all said and done that alot of what the ancestors fought, lived, tried to teach, were violated, and died for will be in vain!

Other than that, I guess to each his/her own