Interracial Relationships

Blisterman

Just thought I'd get a conversation going, and hear people's thoughts on this topic.

I'm white and I've recently started going out with a black girl, from Bermuda, and it's unreal the number of comments we get from random people, white and black. Either passing on the street or shouted from cars. At least once every time we're out together in public. Neither of us give a crap really, but I'm still surprised at people's reactions in this day and age. Is it really that big a deal?

And is there something particularly taboo about the black/white combination? I've had girlfriends of Indian and Chinese descent, and nobody ever seemed to take any notice.

Would you mind if your son or daughter dated someone of a different race?

OutlawPete

If I had a son, or mate who pulled a hawt black or Asian girl, be high fiving him .. o/

G_R

Once you've gone black, you never go back so I'm told.

Dyr

Hopefully the pornographic industry's sterling efforts in this field will eventually break down such prejudices

alwaysadub

Blisterman wrote: »

Just thought I'd get a conversation going, and hear people's thoughts on this topic.

I'm white and I've recently started going out with a black girl, from Bermuda, and it's unreal the number of comments we get from random people, white and black. Either passing on the street or shouted from cars. At least once every time we're out together in public. Neither of us give a crap really, but I'm still surprised at people's reactions in this day and age. Is it really that big a deal?

And is there something particularly taboo about the black/white combination? I've had girlfriends of Indian and Chinese descent, and nobody ever seemed to take any notice.

Would you mind if your son or daughter dated someone of a different race?

No wouldn't bother me in the slightest-my nephew has started dating someone of a different race and none of us would have any problems with it at all. None of his friends have any problems with it either, it's a part of life for his generation now.
Didn't think that type of thing still went on tbh

Herb Powell

It's something people aren't use to seeing

My name is URL

There's a lot of racial threads in AH today.. =/

I don't see the big deal with mixed couples myself.. it's not as if our races are mixing to the extent where we'll become completely bred out of existence like..

saying each to their own probably wouldn't sound right in a thread like this =p

IrishManSaipan

Who gives a bollocks what two consenting adults get upto?

lizardfudge

You get the same thing with mixed species couples...

People are so small minded!

IrishManSaipan

OutlawPete wrote: »

If I had a son, or mate who pulled a hawt black or Asian girl, be high fiving him .. o/

Fook that, send 'em to samba lessons so he can get in with the latinos!:cool:

Biggins

Blisterman wrote: »

...Would you mind if your son or daughter dated someone of a different race?

Honestly - wouldn't bother me.
Again being honest, when my 3 girls are old enough, I'll be telling the new boyfriends (irrespective of colour & creed) that if they mis-behave, I'll be kicking backside as a watching dad would do!

tfitzgerald

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

DrumSteve

Pics or GTFO...?


(had to be said i suppose)

The Saint

As the wise people at Skittles once said "taste (fornicate with) the rainbow".

DrumSteve

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

im not a fan of double posting but you sir just made the most retarded statement ive heard all day.

aDeener

I personally wouldnt go out with a black woman, from what ive seen strutting their stuff down the streets here is hideously ugly and not for me.

wouldnt have any issues with others doing so, none of my business

Hagar

It can be hard on the kids.

On the colour wheel of race only go one shade in either direction to avoid disaster.

lizardfudge

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

Why not go the whole hog and stick to your own family too?

Keano

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

TROLL ALERT!

billymitchell

Don't have a son or daughter. But if I had, as long as they were happy and the other person wasn't an ass, I cant see what difference it makes what colour their skin was.

OutlawPete

The thing is, it's all brand new for the Irish to be this cosmopolitan all of a sudden.

If I see and Caucasian Irish Guy or Girl with someone who isn't, then you will look just out of curiosity. Maybe I'll think: "Damn, I'm gonna pull me a hot Black girl one of these days.."

It's not so long ago that Lenny Henry was on the Late Late laughing cause Gay asked him if he felt relaxed here and he said something like: "Sure I'm the only Black guy in Dublin"

Phil Lynott and Paul McGrath got a lot of racial abuse growing up in Dublin also.

Hazys

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

So should blonde haired people should only go out with blonde haired people and brunettes should only go out with brunettes? Heaven forbid a ginger mixes with a blonde :eek:


I'd never get invloved in an interrace relationship if the girl was ugly...but most defly get in one if the girl was hawt!

Hazys

aDeener wrote: »

I personally wouldnt go out with a black woman, from what ive seen strutting their stuff down the streets here is hideously ugly and not for me.

wouldnt have any issues with others doing so, none of my business

Lol black women strutting their stuff on the street(s) of Buttevant!


Haha Buttevant is some sh1thole, made my life hell for a year travelling from Cork to Galway. I love the racist country view point btw

Millie

We're all pink on the inside!

smokingman

Personally, I'd actively encourage it with my son - I want the family name going for eternity and the only way of doing that is to introduce new genes and fine tune the mix

pickarooney

lizardfudge wrote: »

Why not go the whole hog and stick to your own family too?

Two Deliverance references in one sentence. Hats off!

mikom

Blisterman wrote: »

I'm white and I've recently started going out with a black girl, from Bermuda,

Have you seen her triangle yet?

fontanalis

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

Made, sounds like you believed the six billion people in the world today are decended from a family that walked off Noahs Ark a few thousand years ago.
Dark skin is an evolutionary trait to help defend against ultra violet light.
Also how do people define race?

Interesting article that shows race is purely visual, read the third paragraphe below the pictures.
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2010/02/what_average_genetic_variation.php

Raekwon

I have no issues with interracial relationships infact I actually wouldn't mind having a black girlfriend, I've seen some absolute stunners in places like London, Paris & New York, but I'm not sure if I'd date a girl from African TBH, they seems very hostile/rude and would probably intimidate the shít out of me

Since we are on this subject, I was wondering am I the only one to notice that some working class girls have an absolute fixation with black guys? I've always found that really odd

Raekwon

Bambi wrote: »

Hopefully the pornographic industry's sterling efforts in this field will eventually break down such prejudices

Blacks on Blondes

tfitzgerald

DrumSteve wrote: »

im not a fan of double posting but you sir just made the most retarded statement ive heard all day.

no sir i have just given my honest opinion which i am entitled to but to suggest that i should have pics to prove my opinion really is a bit r*****ed sorry i dont think thats a nice word lets just say its a bit slow

Hagar

OutlawPete wrote: »

Phil Lynott and Paul McGrath got a lot of racial abuse growing up in Dublin also.

Not sure if that's 100% true. I heard Phil being interviewed about growing up in Dublin and was asked if he got grief for being coloured. His response was "When I was a kid in Crumlin if you were black you were black and if youi had big ears you had big ears. It wasn't a big deal".

Another journalist asked him what it felt like being black and Irish?

“Kinda like a pint a Guinness.”

fontanalis

tfitzgerald wrote: »

no sir i have just given my honest opinion which i am entitled to but to suggest that i should have pics to prove my opinion really is a bit r*****ed sorry i dont think thats a nice word lets just say its a bit slow

Your opinion was terrible to be fair.

Wazdakka

I've always wanted to nail a black chick actually...
Is there any particular club or anything where they hang out?
I haven't seen any black girls in ages when I'm on the piss.


Go for it OP..
Give her a good hoofing on behalf of the anons in AH.

DrumSteve

tfitzgerald wrote: »

no sir i have just given my honest opinion which i am entitled to but to suggest that i should have pics to prove my opinion really is a bit r*****ed sorry i dont think thats a nice word lets just say its a bit slow

who says i asked you for pics it was a joke reference to the OP post.

also could you please explain to me the reason why you think we should stick to our own kind?

TheZohanS

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

Interesting.

Can you please elaborate?

JCDUB

69 wrote: »

coloured

I thought this expression was no longer cool these days??

I'm not giving out btw.I dunno, it changes every few weeks..

I couldn't care less what two strangers get up to, more power to them if they're having a fun relationship no matter what colour, creed or sex they are.

There are hot chicks in every race in the world, and if a guy is fortunate enough to find one then fair play to him.

Joey the lips

There will always be small minded bastards who for no reason will find a reason to hate someone who looks happy. Its not necessarilary the street gang hanging around the corner. It can be the fat swine of a couch potato who thinks the world owes them a favor.

I have no problem in interracial relationships. However weather the person is black white yellow or blue its natural for a person to develop an inbuilt bias to someone. I imagine as a parent I will be biased towards anyone who dates my sons or daughters.

However like any parent my ultimate dream is to see my kids happy and if s/he is happy in there relationship then I will embrace whom ever they hook up with...


btw the word halfcast is totally contra to the look of the person for example no matter how half cast thadia newton is I would not last long with her, She is seriously hot...

bigeasyeah

To me people are just people-some good, some bad, some sexy.
The problem here is that there is too much empathisis put on race and colour,probably because its the current taboo subject.
Drawing such attention to such trivial differences, no matter with what intentions,will only strengthen divide.

OutlawPete

69 wrote: »

Not sure if that's 100% true. I heard Phil being interviewed about growing up in Dublin and was asked if he got grief for being coloured. His response was "When I was a kid in Crumlin if you were black you were black and if youi had big ears you had big ears. It wasn't a big deal".

Another journalist asked him what it felt like being black and Irish?

“Kinda like a pint a Guinness.”

I was going by what his mother said after he died. She said he got regualr racial abuse and hid it and that there were people on the streets who would shout things out and it made him feel low.

He was a sound guy and not the type to go on TV and complain, it just wasn't him.

Paul McGrath grew up in a similar area and had it very tough. Even spent time in St Pats with depression. Football saved him he said.

Fallen Buckshot

ok interracial is ok but hows about say.. Interracial and homosexual .. is that too taboo ? :P

alwaysadub

Joey the lips wrote: »

btw the word halfcast is totally contra to the look of the person for example no matter how half cast thadia newton is I would not last long with her, She is seriously hot...

Nope you definitely wouldn't last long with her considering her name is Thandie:D

Hagar

He wouldn't even last with Jessica Tandy.

aDeener

Hazys wrote: »

Lol black women strutting their stuff on the street(s) of Buttevant!


Haha Buttevant is some sh1thole, made my life hell for a year travelling from Cork to Galway. I love the racist country view point btw

aye because ive only ever been to buttevant :rolleyes:

how is what i have said racist? :rolleyes: i did not tar all black women with the one brush, i said "from what i have seen". that is liable to change

Jessica-Rabbit

tfitzgerald wrote: »

we were all made a different color for a reason we should stick to our own kind

if you don't mind me asking what century are you from

Jessica-Rabbit

DrumSteve wrote: »

im not a fan of double posting but you sir just made the most retarded statement ive heard all day.

+1 DrumSteve:)

Black people in general get quite a lot of abuse (or at least attention) in Ireland, as do most foreign looking people. I hear so many white people say racism isn't a problem in Ireland - well of course it isn't, if you're white! It isn't until they start going out with or hanging around with someone of a different race that they notice how much of a problem it is. I got quite a lot of hassle in Dublin and I'm white, just very tanned. My ex got a lot of ' where did ya meet the foreign bird' comments, a lot of them were positive, but nevertheless we attracted attention, and I have an Irish accent. I was out with black friends on a few occasions and they got surprising amounts of hassle getting into places and stuff like that. I wouldn't feel overly comfortable being in an interracial relationship with a black guy in Dublin, tbh. Not that it'd stop me, but I'd always feel self conscious and wary walking down the street etc.

pickarooney

Is the OP not in Leicester (not that it changes the discussion that much)?

ejmaztec

Jessica-Rabbit wrote: »

if you don't mind me asking what century are you from

He's probably really KKK Fitzgerald.

ejmaztec

Sums up my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYrz_3pfgs

Hagar

pickarooney wrote: »

Is the OP not in Leicester (not that it changes the discussion that much)?

Very good point, he might be the only whitey around.