He didn’t come to our wedding.
Timothy Houston, Kansas City, MO I will let the words speak for themselves.
Racism is part of our DNA
Russ Becker, Durango, CO My cousin, who grew up on a farm in central Indiana, was a farmer and an exceptionally nice guy. In his...
That is a white Jewish name
Sonja, East Cleveland, OH My children are not biracial and their last name is Cohen. However their great great grandfather who married a black woman...
I’m a multicultural “Air Force Brat”
Sherryl Weston, Vallejo, CA I am lucky enough to know my multiracial -by marriage back in the 1800s and growing. My mother lives on the...
Our marriage, leap of faith, worked.
John Collinge, Bethesda, MD Zandra and I met in June 1978 as new Foreign Service Officers. Neither of us had dated interracially, we had to...
“How does one become a Patel?”
Allison Patel, North Chesterfield, VA My boss’s boss’s boss asked me this question at a big event where I was introduced in a place of...
Thank you Richard and Mildred Loving
Sharon Holley Columbus, OH Without the sacrifices of the Lovings, I may not have been able to marry the person I love.
Have you found a man, yet?
Kaitlyn Brumbaugh, Mount Holly Springs, PA As a woman, my family makes it seem like my entire future depends on if I am in a...
White boy marries black girl early…
Fugen Tom Pitner, Boulder, CO Knowing what I know now, my only regret is that we married too soon. My first wife continues to occupy...
White trash married to black man
Tamera, Evans, GA. I still hear this comment from people even after being in a 32 year long loving marriage, having 3 children, and 5...
My spouse is a black man
Thomas C. Hofstra, Los Angeles, CA. My spouses six words are “I try to understand our world”
Grandparents couldn’t have had our marriage
Rachel Devenish Ford, Submitted via Twitter: @journeymama
Where did you meet your wife?
Brian Comerford Aurora, CO I notice when many husbands are asked a similar question, the word “where” is substituted with “how”; my impression is that...
Marrying a white Hispanic isn’t mixing
Mary Spain I’m married to a dark haired dark eyed white skinned Spanish speaking man of pure European descent. He is Spanish. We live in...
Parents’ interracial marriage seems selfish sometimes
Anonymous, Santa Cruz, CA I’m tired of my bi-racial experience being used as proof of progress… Sometimes I think my parents were selfish to have...
