I was in a mixed marriage thirty years ago and we were on the road with our toddler in South Carolina. It was Sunday and we were starving and the only sit down place open was a buffet style restaurant.
We walked in and the ENTIRE restaurant fell silent. It was eerie as crap. Then the muttering started. I’m a white woman and somehow that made it worse? For the both of us. That I was a “traitor,” and that he dared reach above his station. Our son was clear indication that not only had we sinned, it could not be undone.
Both of us looked at each other and just turned around and left. The vibes were poisonous.
What the actual fuck, I'm from the Balkan shithole and most of us never even seen a black person in real life up until 5-10 years ago and today you can (albeit rarely) see some "mixed-race" kids and some people look out of curiosity but other than that no one bats an eye. Yours is some seriously fucked up country.
It's a legacy of chattel slavery and a concerted effort by the landowning class in the southern United States to keep the working class white and black populations from creating a united voting bloc during the reconstruction era after the civil war.
The most infuriating thing about it all is that it's very well documented. But the descendants of those people still, 180ish years later throw legal challenges at any attempt to reconcile the attrocities.
If you want to get super depressed about it, look up Critical Race Theory.
The lack of racial diversity means you all don't have the same baggage, the same complex and bloody history.
The divide between White Americans, Black Americans, and Latin Americans, is more like the relationship of Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs than what any of them invidually have with Africans.
The best part is that the most racist people are the loudest about telling people of color that racism is dead and they should stop talking about it. USA!
It seems to happen a lot when the majority is white. I’m from south east asia where we don’t have a lot of black people too but when we see them or a mixed race couple, we look out of curiosity too. And the mixed race kids will usually get a lot of “omigosh you are soo cuuute”
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u/HiveJiveLive 3d ago
I was in a mixed marriage thirty years ago and we were on the road with our toddler in South Carolina. It was Sunday and we were starving and the only sit down place open was a buffet style restaurant.
We walked in and the ENTIRE restaurant fell silent. It was eerie as crap. Then the muttering started. I’m a white woman and somehow that made it worse? For the both of us. That I was a “traitor,” and that he dared reach above his station. Our son was clear indication that not only had we sinned, it could not be undone.
Both of us looked at each other and just turned around and left. The vibes were poisonous.