It was only scandalous in contain parts of the world.

We might have come far but I feel we're either standing still or going backwards. I can't get my head around how many people still think they're superior because of the colour of their skin.

Have a friend who has never met her mothers family because they weren't ok with her mother marrying and having a child with a black man. Finland mid 90's.

They'd call him "n****r lover" and straight up refuse to talk to wife or kids because they were "a disgrace to the supreme race" or shid like that. I can only wonder about people, more often to the negative than positive. People suck. This shouldn't even be an issue in the first place, and anyway, they know whom and why they married. Ain't up to anyone else. And ... today, it seems it's still not gotten THAT much further, although, of course, it's not nothing that happened since. But ... we do know better. Every single racist theory, about intelligence or whatever, has been debunked, ripped to pieces, by investigating them honestly. Nowadays, some people get upset about investigatig racists' claims, but ... but, if we hadn't done so, we could FEEL it's wrong. But, thanks to investigations undertaken with all seriousness regardless of how laughable the claims were, we KNOW. Which I consider above feeling in that regard - keep'em racisteries coming, first come, first debunked!

Not scandalous in the Republican area at the time. Only the Democrat-dominated in the south.

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I would say yes. Brave man to follow his heart like that in those times.

My great great grandparents lived this and apparently they didn't come into town because of the hatred they faced. One of the sets of parents raised the grandchildren because of appearances? I don't really know all the family history.

I think it was more common than you might think. Formers slaves fled West along with everybody else. Things were still kind of wild in 1890... few things were stigmatized as thoroughly as they are now, including interracial marriages.

Like what??

you're assuming this was taken in amerikkka...

I am so glad to hear you are with the one you love, no matter what others think! <3 My boyfriend is Chinese, and I'm white, but I was adopted at birth into a Mexican family. My Hispanic family members have NEVER gotten over the fact that I am dating an Asian. We also get plenty of nasty looks/comments from the (mostly) white residents of the city where we live. I used to hear stories from my mom about my Hispanic cousin who married a black man in the early 70s and got completely disowned by the rest of the family (except by my mom, who married a white dude). My cousin got cancer and died many years ago, before I was even born, and (according to my mom), most of the family refused to even reconcile with her on her deathbed. Her children were older than I am (I was born 1982) and have passed away as well, but I have contact with their children (her grandchildren) and they are wonderful people. I wish you and your wife all the best and may your obstacles become miniscule!

Spanish people from Europe are white. Do you mean Hispanic?

No? The mother and father are quite clearly two different races. "Human" is not a race. If you want to make a comment about all people being equal, feel free to do so, but don't make things up.

I believe you don't deserve down votes for what you're trying to say. Perhaps the wording isnt the best. But i entirely understand where your trying to come from here ^^