@GracieGirl,
You're right, GracieGirl, I wasn't referring to Eva.
On the other hand, that old guy who keeps harping on your having out-of-wedlock children...
Even after you've said you're not even sure you want to have children.
Anyway, back to the topic....
Do you think your friend's mother was, perhaps, simply being overly protective when she suggested there were a lot of nice white boys she could date? I think it is fine to date anyone you like, regardless of their race. But interracial relationships can raise antagonisms in other people, and, sometimes, those people can take out those antagonisms on one or both members of the interracial couple. I might want to protect my 13 year old daughter from that sort of thing--from possible bullying, or taunting, or nasty comments, or hurtful behavior--which might go on in school or one of the social media Web sites--because of a particular dating relationship they were in. That wouldn't necessarily mean I was a racist, it would mean I was worried about someone else hurting my kid because of
their racial attitudes. I might be much less worried about that sort of thing if my child was older-at least in college--than I would be when she is 13, for a variety of reasons. If my daughter was just starting to date, I think I might prefer to see her in a relationship that's as free from potential tensions, and complications, and conflicts, as possible, including those tensions, and complications, and conflicts, that might occur outside the relationship.
I'm just suggesting a different perspective on why your friend's mother might have made the remark she did.
Does interracial dating go on in your school? If so, does it create any sort of problems for the people involved?
Oh gosh.
