Super Bowl Bites: Glutster Cajun Dip

By Javier Cabral

Time for a confession: I’m not a sports nut. So the Super bowl is just another game—at least, for me. I know. I know. For many, the Super Bowl is an unofficial American Holiday-- a time of gathering, a time of excitement and a time of expensive commercials. But there is one thing I can get behind this weekend: food. The Super Bowl is a great opportunity to eat with friends.

"I'm Bi-racial.  My father is black, and my mother is light skinneded." -King Anyi 

At a young age, several women in my family use to tell me... "You better not bring home no white girl!"  That was before I even started dating.  Their comments had the opposite effect on me.  I have dated several white women.  I've also dated black, Latina, Asian, and mixed race women.  I can say I don't have a racial preference.  But I can say that some of my relatives wouldn't be too pleased with my dating history.  And I find that puzzling, considering that these same relatives are light skinned.  They are the children of interracial dating.

Recently in Louisiana, a licensed justice of the peace refused to grant an interracial couple a marriage license because he didn't feel races should be "mixing."  In fact, Justice Keith Bardwell told the press, "There is a problem with both [racial] groups accepting a child from such a marriage."  The justice's actions, comments and beliefs are so audacious in this day and age.  I mistook the story for a joke when I first heard it.  How such ignorance can survive in today's current social climate is not a surprise to me.  What is shocking is how such ignorance can still exist so openly in such a public sector of society.  You would think that even if someone did harbor such prejudicial feelings that they would keep a lid on it.  Think about the countless moments of negative press and condemnation against executioners of such rhetoric that have cost them and their organizations countless millions.  Bardwell's public stance not only encourages such ignorance, it undermines our progress as a society.  More importantly it undermines the people of Louisiana by making them vulnerable to legal action and misrepresenting the citizens of the Creole State. Creole is a term used to refer to the descendants of Louisiana's early French settlers, African-Americans, and Native Americans who have been mixing in the state since before 1803, when Louisiana was purchased from France.  In fact, I am a descendant of Louisiana Creoles.