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I don't know how it happened. I guess some people are born without certain abilities. Some cannot sing, some cannot dance. I cannot function without caffeine or do well in math or play the guitar. I will never be able to do so either. But I am thankfully flawed, advantaged because of my disadvantages. Because along with not being able to drive a stick shift, I am also unable to see how inner beauty has any connection with outer beauty. For the life of me I cannot link character to color. I am color blind.

I laughed from the bottom of my stomach. Billy and I are so in tune with one another. I know what he is going to say before he says it, he knows exactly how to read me, we are best friends. It is mind boggling that anyone could see our love as anything but pure.

But there are some people, members of a culture that has yet to die, who believe that any relationship between two individuals of different ethnic background is morally wrong.

As of 2000, no countries have laws against miscegenation, but opposition to interracial relationships is one of the largest parts of the Ku Klux Klan's and British National Party's platform.

To apply for membership to the Klan one has no choice but to understand the purpose of joining the organization. You do not pay 35 dollars to join a brotherhood. You pay it to stop people from living in peace.

The Klan has a dark stigma, a reputation that most would like to avoid. But the Klan members, many of whom cite religion to support their beliefs, are not unlike those people who are less overt in their opinions.

“But what about the children?” people ask when they realize they cannot use God in their fight for bigotry. Much of society fears that marrying outside of ones ethnicity will cause turmoil for their offspring.

“While most young families are under considerable stress, interracial families often have the additional stress of dealing with negative racial comments or downright harassment from other children and adults, or, in some cases, overcoming the loss of economic and emotional support from disapproving family members,” according to author Francis Wardle.

Some fear the child will suffer an identity crisis or be without the ability to claim a ethnicity. There are no statistics on the number of children of mixed heritage because the census bureau does not recognize this category. Perhaps that is a large part of the problem.

All children will endure teasing in a lifetime, but if raised right, children will learn that it is no reflection on themselves if they are the brunt of cruel behavior. In fact, their personal growth will more than likely soar above their peers as a result.

Prosecutor Marcia Clark was wrong. She assumed that stocking a jury with females would ensure a win. Yet she ignored pretrial research that indicated that not only would the black females be unsympathetic to Nicole Simpson, they would see her as the beautiful blonde who stole the successful black man from the deserving black female population. In their sense, she got what was coming to her.

It is known as the “marriage squeeze,” the belief that the most eligible and desirable black men are marrying non-black women, leaving black women who wish to marry black men empty handed.

The opposition lies in the competition. While the doors of relationships are opened for some, for others they may seem to be “slammed shut.” Statistics show that black men are two and a half times more likely to marry a white woman than a black woman is to marry a white man. Asian Americans women are two and a half times more likely to marry a white man than an Asian man is to marry a white woman.

But it is my dream, that people stop basing the competition in terms of race. Every single woman and single man faces obstacles in relationships. Two people who are more compatible for one another will inevitably end up together, regardless of their race.

I have talked to many of peers about this topic. My closer friends are on the same page as me. We agree that while the topic of interracial relationships is important. In an ideal world, the topic would not have to be spoken about. Real love is beneath the surface and should not be classified as black, white, Hispanic, or other.

But until everyone feels that way, the only way to encourage the acceptance is to get to the root of the problem. The most common response from my peers was that the reason they disagree with interracial relationships is because that is how their parents raised them.

My opinion is that if parents conditioned children to see beyond race, our world would gradually change. Now is the time to teach each other that relationships are perhaps the one joy that is raw and pure in this world.

Maybe this project of mine is without true objectivity. It is possible that my own relationship has influenced my passion on the subject. But objectivity or passion aside, it is a topic that everyone should care about.

One day, you might fall in love with the person of your dreams. You will want to show the world how you feel. Imagine the butterflies and the excitement and the dizziness. Now imagine what it would be like if someone told you that you were wrong, because the hand that holds your heart is a different color than your own.

After all the research I have done, I realize the statistics and anecdotes and examples are meaningless. What really matters is that anyone who is in a relationship, should never be questioned, should never have to defend themselves to the world.

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