How do you feel about interracial couples? Survey wants to know
When the Post-Dispatch published this photo on the cover of “Go” in April, we caused a firestorm of comments to break our in this blog — more than 350 people weighed in for it, against it, or indifferent to the photo of this real-life couple.
Since then, five graduate students at Washington University have undertaken a look at interracial relationships and people’s attitudes toward them, and their survey is the backbone of some of that work (NOTE: The survey has now been closed; this link to it is no longer active).
Taking the time to fill out this survey will help them, and maybe everyone, understand people’s attitudes toward interracial relationships.





If a couple is happy, I am happy for them. You have to see people as individuals. I have personal experience with this issue, as my son (who is white) dates a black girl. She is sweet, pretty, a good student, and she fits right in with our family. We do occasionally get looks when we all go out to eat, but my son seems to have good taste in girlfriends, and he could not have chosen a better girl. We live in a very diverse neighborhood (not just black and white, but people of several other nationalities), and the kids here for the most part have all grown up together and gone through school together.
Summer re-run of April’s show.
Walker
I’m sure the next diatribe will be some religious position of yours right.
White people move from homes in areas that blacks move into because they know from pass what will happen. I’ve said this before,” when Blacks start controlling the governmental agency (municipality) and the school systems the blight follows and crime escalates”. This is a fact, and across the country its undeniable. we can’t live together in harmony, the difference can’t be ignored, we try, but in the end most Black people have a different outlook on life then majority of whites, and no matter how our education system want to jam it down the throat of children with black history month, or changing the history books. Once a child grows and becomes an adult and starts living in this society and intermingling with blacks, the lesson comes full circle and the beat goes on.
Numbed:
The reason for this post is the survey done by the Washington University students; they are hoping to gather data for their work.. It’s not actually a summer rerun.
Joe L, Homosapiens are a secies, not a race. Call them breeds if you want like we do with dogs, but the fact remains that different groups of homosapiens have different traits. Race, or breed, is very real in nature. And there is no reason to be afraid of that fact…
As long as the two are consenting adults…I think it’s fine.
i feel like if they’re happy together then let them be but me personally i cudnt see my self with a white man it just wudnt feel rightt to me..lol
momoftwo - why do they need to be adults? freshman in high school can’t date each other if they are different skin colors?
I’m 23 and in a dedicated inter-color (i wont say race because i too believe that the only race is human) relationship. I get along better with black men, and they tend to appreciate my curves moreso than the average white guy who wants bones and flesh.
Princess - Thanks for agreeing with me about there being only one race. But the rest of your comment is disappointing (and goes back to exactly what I said about people getting into relationships for the wrong reasons.) Wouldn’t you prefer that men (black, white, red or yellow) appreciate your mind, your spirituality, your plan for life instead of your curves? AND I AM JUST WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO COMMENT “WHO ARE YOU TO SAY WHAT IS THE RIGHT OR WRONG REASON FOR GETTING INTO A RELATIONSHIP”! Ask yourself if you would like your daughter or son to be in a relationship that went no deeper than basic sexual attraction, and you’ll have answered your own question.
Goviskillingme,
As I stated earlier:
How sad that people such as you still don’t quite understand what it is that causes neighborhoods to go down hill. But, then you don’t seem to understand much concerning human nature or people and certainly not the cause and affect of much.