My Perspectives on Interracial Dating

Topic:Perception

In our society today many people do not believe that we should date out of our race. Many people say they are not prejudice, but they think that you should stay with your same color. My parents are that way and they don't believe in that. I do not feel that way. I believe that God made us all the same we are just different colors on the outside but on the inside we are all the same. I have been dating someone out of my race for three years now and I just don't feel right when I go out in public because certain people treat you different when you they see who you are dating. I have gone through a lot for the person who I am with. No one should judge the person just by their color, but from what is on the inside of that person. I don't believe someone should have to hide the person they are with just because they are not the same color. If God didn't want people of different races to be together, he wouldn't put us all on earth together. That is what I believe.


Now, let me tell you a little about my background just because of the person who I date. Like I said, I have been with my boyfriend for three years now and every bit of that three years I have had to hide our relationship from my family, except my aunt. Still to this day my relationship with him is behind their eyes. I have been caught with him several times and I have gotten in a lot of trouble just for seeing him. I wish my parents wouldn't be the way they are. It makes no sense for someone to judge the person you love or try to disown you just because the person you love is not the same color. I am going to tell my parents very soon about the person who I am with, but I am so nervous because I want my family just as much as I want him. It is a hard decision to choose from. But my parents cannot run my life for me and they cannot pick the person who I love. I moved out of my house after graduation and when I started college I lived with my aunt who is married to a man of a different color and then I decided I wanted to get my own apartment so that my boyfriend can come to be with me everyday. We are staying together but everytime my parents come to see me I have to hide his belongings and he goes to my cousins house until they leave. It is very agitating to keep hiding our relationship because we love each other and we have to hide our relationship just because he is a different color. I hate having to be called names and being mistreated by the prejudice people that is in our society. I just believe everyone should be treated equally and that no one should judge a person by his or her appearance but from what is on the inside and never let someone run your life because if someone runs your life for you then you will never be happy yourself. It is your choice on who you love and who you chose to be with. Just always go with what is in your heart and not what no one says.

One day when I was with my boyfriend at his house, my grandmother came up and took pictures of my car outside of his apartment. She took these pictures to show my parents that I was somewhere elese besides where I was suppose to be. At the time I was staying at my grandmothers house and my parents were staying in Florida, so then my grandmother goes home and packs my things and up. After everything was packed up my cousin came and stayed with me at my mothers house instead of staying with my grandmother. Now, my grandmother wants me to stay with her every chance I get. She doesn't even look at that anymore. I am the person who tries to treat everyone equal.