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Interracial Dating
"I still hope that we, as a society, are beginning to gradually accept interracial couples."
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By Russell Owens
The reality of living in a true color-blind society is still a dream, but interracial couples are starting to become more acceptable as more people are deciding to break the boundary of race. Even though many interracial couples are being less discreet about their relationships, I still believe that one's skin color often hinders romance.
I am a victim of patronizing eyes whenever I'm seen walking around with my girlfriend. But I still hope that we, as a society, are beginning to gradually accept interracial couples. There could only be one rationale as to why I speak so fervently about this topic: it is because I myself am African- American, and my girlfriend is Caucasian.
I grew up in St. Augustine, Florida, where race did not determine a person's social or marital status. But now I am in Atlanta, where race crimes occur daily, where my girlfriend and I are looked upon as the outcasts, where every wandering pair of eyes seems to focus their menacing glance on our connected hands.
True love is faceless. And for someone to say that they would never consider dating anyone outside their race shows that they are insensitive, reprehensible, and sincerely racist.
-Russell Owens is a junior at Grady High School.
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