Connecting Singles^® Forums 100% Free Online Dating

hollandgirl: Some one told Oprah Winfrey that they were colour blind.
I loved Oprah's answer; Oh your colour blind? I can see cleary that your white.

Many years ago while living in California a black man wanted to date me. We dated a little
I told him that I would not be able to stand it when people would be staring and pointing fingers.
It would hurt me too much, if I cared about him.
At that time is was indeed a rare sighting to see a black man and a white woman or visa versa. (Where in the 70th. here)
My sister having married a Indo,(half Dutch, half Indonesier), was furious at me. You asked him for dinner etc.
The thing was he understood me very well.
Today I would feel different but it is another time now, or is it?
There will always be people frowning about a mixed couple I know.
How do you feel about it?

Harleyquinn: I think in a loving relationship it is 2 souls that innertwine.

Tell me, what color is a soul?

druidess6308: Well said...as was Desmond's answer....it's who a person is inside that counts. Color is literally only skin-deep.

But there are some places where this is harder than others, and people like my parents would still frown upon it. However, with the right person, frankly I wouldn't give a damn.

LACali: Really? I think at this point in my life the people around me would be glad to see me settle down with a goat if that's what would have me.

Harleyquinn: Predjudice and hate are bastard denizens of ignorance.

They know no racial or caste boundries.

Predjudice is not a plague of the caucasian only!! I have a buddy that believes that we will never get rid of it until we interbreed so much that we all become 1 color. Some religions buy into this also, not the breeding thing, the all 1 flavor thing.

The sadest part is that we have all 1 flavor status in the 1 thing that we NEED to support, the thing that supports(and should unify) us all...

Earthling(ness)!!! It seems to me that the people with children are the ones that should be promoting this the most ardently? SHANTI

druidess6308: I can't believe that, LCali! You're too sweet and beautiful...inside and out.

Now me, that's a different story! (Anyone got a goat for sale? It would save on gas for the mower!)

Hugz_n_Kissez: I don't believe we should all be the same...I mean being of a different race and culture is something to be proud of...and something to embrace...however where we fall down..is respecting differences and appreciating the commonalities among us all that make us human....and yes I agree that racism is not just a caucasian thing....it exists all over the place and maybe the key does start with our kids...teaching them respect for all different races...and also I think it lies with the education system to truly educate kids on other races than their own....so that stereo-types have a chance to be eradicated....

Harleyquinn: The only all sameness I'm advocating is earthling(ness).
It was my buddy that I was paraphrasing with the "all 1 color"

Variety IS the spice of life and also what keeps balance. But not only to change it in our children, but for them.
They inherit whatever we leave them, good, bad, ugly, livable or
otherwise(or unwise). The key is us, if we don't start to change ourselves, how can we expect the kids to be able to?

You know, the old "be the change you'd like to see". I think that was Ghandi, WHAT an example of being the change!!!!
SHANTI

Harleyquinn: And thank you too sir
I mentioned this the other day or yesterday, tracing the mitochdrial DNA( passed down from the female) researchers have found that we all go back to a single female from Africa about 100,000 years ago. So technically we all have African ancestry.

I watched a show on PBS television awhile back, it was about ancestry. They traced the roots of Oprah, Chris Rock, I think Morgan Freeman and several other celebrities(African) and they all had caucasian blood(genetics) also. I mean, even 2 glasses of water setting next to each other for 100,000 years are bound to share a few molecules sooner or later.

The sooner we could all realise that we are all humans/earthlings and get over it, the sooner we could start focusing on something that is actually important. SHANTI

hollandgirl: Some one told Oprah Winfrey that they were colour blind.
I loved Oprah's answer; Oh your colour blind? I can see cleary that your white.

Many years ago while living in California a black man wanted to date me. We dated a little
I told him that I would not be able to stand it when people would be staring and pointing fingers.
It would hurt me too much, if I cared about him.
At that time is was indeed a rare sighting to see a black man and a white woman or visa versa. (Where in the 70th. here)
My sister having married a Indo,(half Dutch, half Indonesier), was furious at me. You asked him for dinner etc.
The thing was he understood me very well.
Today I would feel different but it is another time now, or is it?
There will always be people frowning about a mixed couple I know.
How do you feel about it?

TheresMyFriend: Do you want me to tell you the truth as my opinion, and have most come down on me for my opinion? Or lie, and tell you that it don't matter, and by doing so is not being honest?

DazzleYou: I wish we would get to the point where we were a color blind society.

DazzleYou: I wish we would get to the point where we were a color blind society.