Topic #1. Introductions
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37. Just Me
Fri, Sep 17, 1999 - 3:13 PM/EST
historian

Tried to do this yesturday, but Hurricane Floyd had other ideas.

I don't have much to add to my original intro that I gave with the registration. I was born in St. Louis, raised in Brooklyn, NY and currently live in Washington DC. I am an urbanite, but it took time spent in small town in the mid west (getting an education0 to figure this out.

My husband and I met in London and we've been married for nearly four years. I'm expected our first child in November. I am working full-time as a historian and plan to write my ph.d dissertation on African-American children in Quaker institutions. I walk the narrow road between the black and white world and sometimes I just get plain tired and want to retreat, but its the only road I know. Hope to find others roads from other people in this dialogue. Peace

38. introduction
Fri, Sep 17, 1999 - 4:56 PM/EST

I'm a 41 year old white male married for 17 years to a wonderfull white female. I'm not sure what I'll have to offer to this group, but I'm here to listen and learn.

I have lived in the area where I now live prettymuch my whole life. I have traveled the U.S. extencivly but I loved this area too much to call somewhere else home.

I have never given the race issue much thought because it's never been an issue around here. It's a rural area and all interracial relationships were thought of as a lack of options more than any thing else.. pretty much all relationships are thought of that way weather they are interracial, interreligious, same sex or whatever. My father-in-law still laments that his daughter didn't have a broader field of options, even after 17 happy years and 3 sons (or grand-sons for him) later, to him my place "is so far out in the sticks that song birds have to pack a lunch to get here."

I like to think that just because I'm out of sight I'm not out of touch. That's mostly why I'm here. I want to rase my boys (12, 10 & 3) with the sence of respect and tolerance towards others that they would like to recieve from others.

39. intro
Thu, Sep 23, 1999 - 8:03 PM/EST

I am a 38 year old black male from the heart of the midwest.

Raised in a smal city in iowa with a total miniorty population of about 6 percent, I belive this has helped me in accepting all types of races and personailties of the people who i happen to be around at the time.

I have been in ir's all of my life could be the fact that my mother remarried when i was very young and i have always seen that as a normal thing, of course in growing up i would get called an oreo or a sell out but it has not harmed my self worth any, My relantionship right now is ir and it has been a wonderful two years for myself and my partner.

there is some unacceptance around us but i do not let it bother me as it has in the past with ir i have been involved in.

I see people as people you either get along or you dont and if you dont it is so silly to waste time hating someone for who they are or who they are with, thank you have a nice weekend

40. ir
Mon, Sep 27, 1999 - 1:04 PM/EST

For the past several years, I have evaluated myself, and thought "Tina, are you prejudice, and could you see yourself marrying a white man?" My answer has been,"I don't think so". My reasoning is the following: I have had so many subtle racist experiences, and I believe that the actions of most whites with whom I interact, is generational. I have experienced the arrogance,

and superiority attitudes on a regular basis, and it makes me feel most uncomfortable. With all sincerity, I cannot see a white man genuiely loving a black woman, without feeling that he is far more superior. I have met some nice white gentleman, but it hasn't clicked. Maybe it's my defenses! I can't see it, but if it happens, God only knows. No hard feelings, just being real.