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The year I snuck an interracial lesbian couple into the background of an American Airlines commercial, I was feeling particularly flush.
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Augusten Burroughs (Magical Thinking: True Stories)
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People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.
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Mat Johnson (Loving Day)
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Jack...why is there a dragon in our backyard?
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Kyoko M. (Of Dawn & Embers (Of Cinder & Bone, #3))
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Compared to Jim Crow racism, the ideology of color blindness seems like "racism lite." Instead of relying on name calling (niggers, spics, chinks), color-blind racism otherizes softly ("these people are human, too"); instead of proclaiming that God placed minorities in the world in a servile position, it suggests they are behind because they do not work hard enough; instead of viewing interracial marriage as wrong on a straight racial basis, it regards it as "problematic" because of concerns over the children, location, or the extra burden it places on couples.
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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States)
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And I know, I’m sitting here next to my white best friend but it’s almost as if I giving Khalil, Daddy, Seven, and every other black guy in my life a big, loud “fuck you” by having a white boyfriend.
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Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1))
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In the weeks leading up to the Detroit rebellion, three incidents exacerbated racial tensions. On June 12, a mob of more than eighty whites waged a miniriot and smoke-bombed the house of an interracial married couple—a black man and a white woman—who had moved into a suburban white neighborhood. On June 23, a black couple—Mr. Thomas, who worked at a local Ford plant, and Ms. Thomas, his pregnant wife—went to Rouge Park in a white neighborhood. A mob of more than fifteen whites harassed them, threatened to rape Mrs. Thomas, cut the wires on their car so they could not leave, and then shot Mr. Thomas three times, killing him and causing Ms. Thomas to miscarry. Six of the whites were arrested, but only one was charged, and he was eventually let off by a jury. In fact, at that time, no white had ever been found guilty of murdering a black person in Detroit.
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Joshua Bloom (Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (The George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies))
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terms of interracial unions in the United States, the percentage of married-couple households that are interracial or interethnic grew from 7.4% in 2000 to 10.2% in 2010. The largest group of interracial/interethnic married-couple combinations was of non-Hispanic Whites married to Hispanics, which increased in 43% of the counties across the United States.
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Farzana Nayani (Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World)
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...there is no easy way to articulate what it means for your loved ones to worry that your person's ability to love you is limited by their inability to comprehend many of your lived experiences.
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Onyi Nwabineli (Someday, Maybe)
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And if an interracial couple got caught, God help them. The police would kick down the door, drag the people out, beat them, arrest them. At least that's what they did to the black person. With the white person it was more like, "Look, I'll just say you were drunk, but don't do it again, eh? Cheers.
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Trevor Noah (Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood)
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Interracial marriages between white and Black partners that occurred before that date were also validated under section 2 of the act, since Congress declared that marriages contracted under the customs and practices of Spain and Mexico were valid.72 Under section 2, the Texas Congress also upheld section 4 of Spain’s Las Siete Partidas cohabitation marriage laws, which declared that couples who cohabited and were publicly recognized as husband and wife were legally married, regardless of whether a certified state clerk or priest had solemnized their unions.73 This validation was necessary because many Anglo
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Martha Menchaca (The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality (The Texas Bookshelf))
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SOFIA: We’re not meant to be good and perfect. You know who lives longer? Married couples who enjoy under the sheets time alone. Enjoy the fun, but understand there must be an end goal.
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Billy London (A Life Sublime)
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Nothing in Scripture or orthodox theology precludes our opening the institution of marriage to same-gender couples. Those who oppose marriage equality for gay or lesbian couples, pleading for us not to “redefine” marriage, do not understand that gay marriage only builds up the traditional meaning of marriage. We are not changing its meaning but merely revising the list of those to whom it is available. Not unlike the rather recent opening of legal marriage to interracial couples, the legal marriage of two same-gender people retains the traditional meaning of marriage while expanding the number of people whom it may benefit.
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Gene Robinson (God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage)
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Her name was Sapienas. She was born from an interracial couple; her mother was part geofus and part cryo, and her father was part aviator and part therma, meaning that she was an extraterrestrial of all four races. As she was racially identified by all four, she was diligent in trying to find the cultural identities of each race. Sapienas used a web search to read about the characteristics of each race, only to discover the possibility that she was a representation of not just one, but all four stereotypes: for being part cryo, she lacked genuine passion, emotion, and love. For being part therma, she was negligent of preventing global warming and her existence only exacerbated the problem. For being part aviator, she lacked incisiveness. And, for being part geofus, she lacked technological expertise, couldn’t manipulate currency, and had a high chance of being illiterate.
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Lucy Carter (Logicalard Fallacoid)
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She was the only child of an interracial couple, one half of which was disabled. When she was growing up, her straw-headed classmates asked her curtly, "What are you?
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Maura Roosevelt (Baby of the Family)