I choose to use this week's free blog to talk about inner-racial relationships and share my opinions and thoughts about it. It's pretty much a known fact that parents would love for their children to date and wed within their own race, but what if they don't? Should an inner- racial relationship be judged, and why does it matter if people date within their own race? I, myself, always believed if a parent was against their child dating or wedding someone of a different race there was a trace of racism in them. But as I was watched an episode of "one on one" earlier this morning and it was contrary to my belief that most of the time this isn't a racist preference...it's more of wanting to keep a legacy going, keeping the family and tradition alive. My judgement that all parents looking down upon inner-racial relationships was prejedice is definately wrong. I can see how this relates to the african american experience because we have come such a long way from being taken from africa by a different race, why would we want to end our legacy and pure bloodline. It's not only an african american thing, but it can be looked at from all points of views. Personally I believe families are built from love no matter what color your skin is and that's what my parents taught me, but I'm sure things could change when I have my own children. Although many culture have taken part in changing the world and giving people a new perspective of mankind, there are also many places in this world that ban this type of thing for the very reason that they believed its ungodly. I embrace being able to be in african american in the united states and being able to have beautiful chocolate babies or mixing it up a bit. GO AMERICA :)