Interracial Marriage

The second semester of my 8th grade year the whole school gathered in the gym and the principal was announcing that we had a few new students. She would call out their names, and they would stand up and wave to the crowd.

One of the students she called seemed to stand out over the others. He was a good looking guy and was only two years older than me. I was only 13 so of course I got all giggly and excited for the new guy at school.

We started talking and found out we had a lot in common; we became good friends and eventually started dating. We were together for four months and were already saying that we loved each other. It seemed real to us at the time. However there was one thing he did not have in common with me, his skin color. He was African American. That seemed to bother some of the people that I knew.

I was told that mixing races can be difficult, but I wasn’t sure why. I was given several reasons as to why it should not be done, my favorite reason was, “How awkward the wedding would be with his family on one side and yours on the other. It will look like we are trying to separate the races.” But I wasn’t planning on marrying him, we ended up growing apart and went our separate ways, but it still bothered me as to why a person’s race would be a problem. Why is race always an issue? Why does every legal document categorize people by their appearance? It is just a skin color not a disease. If a white woman wanted to be with an African American man, I would say they should go ahead and be together. And this does not only apply to African Americans, it applies to any race. If a person wants to be with someone, it should not matter what ethnic group they are in, it just matters how they feel about that person and how much they want to be together. This is why they believe in interracial marriages.