By Kyle D. Killian, Ph.D: Anecdotal evidence abounds - some persons carry a very negative bias toward persons who are different from them on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion, and some persons are still vehemently opposed to race mixing via interracial marriage.
For instance, in 2000, Alabama became the last state to repeal a ban
against interracial marriage. While repeal of such a ban does represent
progress, the back-story on this event is that 41% of Alabamans voted against
lifting the ban. In 2004, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched
an investigation into a hate mail campaign against prominent black men
married to white women (National Public Radio, December 30, 2005).
Cross-burning incidents continue across the country, including in the
American northeast (e.g., Long Island), and since President Obama’s
election, the number of hate groups (i.e., nativists, Neo-Nazis, etc.)
and militias have exploded to record levels (Southern Poverty Law
Center, 2010). And in late 2009, a white justice of the peace in
Louisiana refused to issue a marriage license to a black and white
couple out of concern for any children they might have. Mr. Bardwell
said, “I think those children suffer, and I won't help put them through
it'” (New York Times, October 17, 2009). What do we make of this?Race and Gender Parallels
Angelo Agathangelou: Brainwashed by cultural Marxism and with a certain naivete of youth I would have thought how old fashioned of that judge, but with the benefit of suffering the UK family injustice system with my bi-racial children I have greater sympathy for the Louisiana Justice of the peace than I would like. Just as our culture touts a world of misogyny and I have found the truth to be of misandry and second class citizenship for fathers, men and boys, Given the background you have described, a racist society, right or wrong, he's clearly reflecting the reality.
As we have seen through experiment of reaction to public violence showing no regard for men (4/100) and every sympathy for women (100/100), that western society is even more gynocentric than it is racist. Until this fundamentally old fashioned nature is shifted MGTOW is the only way for thinking modern males. Men have a higher mountain to climb but clearly the 41% you have mentioned is steep enough for mixed race issues too.
I suggest a revolution in both cases. We have a long way to go.
Kyle: One interpretation is that while a great deal of progress has been made, interracial marriage is still a hot button issue within and across racial communities. Pressing this button activates a host of struggles and contestations, including racialized and sexualized stereotypes, opposition from family and friends, and community rejection. Marrying across race, and being seen with a interracial partner or multiracial children, raises important and often volatile questions: Who belongs, and in what social spaces, which bodies can mix with what other bodies, and what borders are being crossed, by whom, and with what consequences?
To cross a border is to penetrate into a social space with its own rules, norms, and values. Persons, often self-appointed (e.g., the Minutemen in the Texas and Arizona border regions), perform the role of border guards, policing the line, checking for any potential violators of the dominant group’s norms and expectations. Categories of race often serve as a means of keeping others out of social groups and communities. Being in the “wrong neighborhood,” “wrong side of town,” or “wrong side of the tracks”— clichéd phrases grounded in geographical metaphors— also refer to differences along the lines of race, and of class. While residential neighborhoods and social networks are more integrated today than they were in the 1970s, Fryer (2007) observed that in “a typical American city, 64% of blacks would have to move to ensure an even distribution of blacks across the city” (p. 71). Craig Gurian, executive director of the Anti-Discrimination Centre, an anti-bias advocacy and litigation group, stated “Residential segregation underlies virtually every racial disparity in America, from education to jobs to the delivery of health care” (New York Times, August 10 2009). And Andrew A. Beveridge, a sociologist at the City University of New York, found that “racial isolation is increasing for blacks, falling slightly for whites” and that “income level has very little impact on the degree of residential racial segregation experienced by African-Americans”. Finally, friendship networks in public schools are still quite segregated, with the average student possessing just 0.7 friends of a different race (Echenique & Fryer, 2008). Thus, social distance is still a big factor in meeting, and marrying, across the racial border. More on this, and current attitudes toward interracial marriage, in the next posting.
Angelo: The parallels of sex and race continue. For men to cross the border effect of cultural Marxism is to penetrate into a gynocentric social space with its own rules, norms and values. Persons (invariably feminist running the social services and primary education) perform the role of arbiters policing the line, checking for any potential violators of the dominant group’s norms and expectations. You put it beautifully Kyle. Gender in this case serve as a means of keeping males out of their family group as 'natural rapists' or as 'slugs and snails' etc. similarly clichéd phrases grounded in age old 'white feather' socialy shaming metaphors focused on differences of gender.
With another mixed race couple, due to the gynocentric nature of the Australian government and lame-stream media, the whole country was taken in by a female child abuser and the Australian government through its Italian embassy even colluded with the woman to help kidnap the children without checking any of the facts of her story. What are we to make of this?
If there are 41% against mixed race that is one issue for the mixed race family but the family has one further division, that of gender, what of the tests showing that 100% would stop to help a female victim being attacked by a male whilst less than 5% would stop to help the male being violently assaulted by the female? I would suggest you have a further, important complication within that interracial presumably mixed gender family that is an inescapable additional factor. Tax farms (aka countries or nations aka open air prisons) and Willie Lynch come to mind.
Kyle D. Killian, PhD is author of Interracial Couples, Intimacy & Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders from Columbia University Press.
References
Echenique, F., & Fryer, R. (2007). A measure of segregation based on social interactions. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122, 441-485.
Fryer, R. (2007). Guess who’s coming to dinner?: Trends in interracial marriage over the 20th century. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21, 71-90.
Southern Poverty Law Center (2010). Intelligence Report: Rage on the Right. Issue 137. Southern Poverty Law Center.
Angelo: link to Misandry, Parental Alienation & Child Abduction: Australian Govt In Collusion With Child-Abusing Mother
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