Interracial, Intergender & Intercultural Relationships II

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The whole notion that race, culture, religion or gender should be a barrier or standard by which people are segmented or categorized with relation to whom they can or cannot date is absurd. Absurd in the sense we as minorities complain about the mixing of the races but yet we're the first to quote Martin Luther King Jr. when he said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."; absurd in the sense that we protest the sanctity of gay/lesbian relationships but yet we are a nation that proudly proclaims that we put individual civil liberties above all and that all men are created equal; absurd in the sense that as Christians we protest dating those with beliefs different from our own but yet our very Bible teaches us that “love transcends peoples, nations and religions.”

I've written about Interracial, same-sex relationships & intercultural dating before. I've watched the opened minded spar with the adamantly closed minded, the intellectuals trade blows with the ignorant and uncompromising; I’ve watched people take my opinion out of context and try use it to justify their lust for Black men, manipulation of white women, objectification Latina women and so forth ignoring the simple and obvious fact that what I wrote about & tried articulate is Interracial Relationships within a more sincere context, the context of those who are truly in Like or in Love.

You see, to me, as long as a relationship is built upon the most sincere of foundations; as long as it embodies those values well-intentioned and well-meaning people long for in a relationship such as trust, honesty, loyalty, reciprocation; as long as every "I love you" really means "I love you"; as long as every time I say "you’re beautiful" really means you make my heart skip whenever you send me a picture message or when I see you smile, the simple fact that they are of different race, different religion/culture or of the same sex should not matter to anyone else but them. Because Love is indiscriminant, To love is human and to put preconditions on something that is meant to be pure is to belittle the essence of what God intended love to be, unconditional & transcendent of all man-made obstacles.

sincerely yours,
Kwapi