Jane Drew
AMST-185-005
12 December 2014
Final Essay
Love has a lot to do with race it has a way of bringing out both good and bad in some people and unfortunately in some cases the issues of love and race are taken too far. In today’s society it is not as much of an issue to see interracial couples together as it used to be in the past, but that does not mean that it is not still an issue for some people. Throughout the semester we have studied different ways that not only in the cases of love but also family, friendship, and community are affected by racial issues both past and present, which only goes to show that racism still exists in our world today despite all of the progressions that we have made towards fixing the issue.
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Madge eventually decides that she feels so shameful for what she had done to Bob and drops charges against him, which is nice but also must have been very awful for Bob because he has to live with the fact that the only reason why he was released was because of a guilty conscience of a heavy accusation, not because they asked him what went on between the two. Hines put this scene in the book because he wants the readers to get a sense of how easily it was to put someone of color in jail without questioning it instead of sitting down and listening to both sides of the story. There is not any justice whatsoever unless you were lucky enough to have a person like Madge take back their accusations which probably was a huge rarity especially during that time period. Black is… Black Ain’t is a documentary by Marlon Riggs and is the epitome of love, sexual orientation, family, and racism all tied together. Riggs, metaphorically comparing African Americans to his grandmother’s pot of gumbo adding language, religion, traditions, and many other characteristics that make up African Americans seeing that so many different things go into the pot for a great end result. Blacks have become so adapted to being insulted by Whites and being thrown names by every other race except for their own, they came to the realization that what does being black actually mean? Black, negro, African American, colored, all of these
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Back in that time, it only took the word of a white man or woman to convince a jury, mostly comprised of all white men and woman, that a black man rapped a woman for them to be killed. For Bob, to even think about wanting to pursue any type of sexual relationship with Madge involves enough risk that he cannot take because it could easily compromise his relationship with Alice and most obvious, his life.
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In 1967, the decision made by the Loving v. Virginia court case established that interracial relationships would be legal, and all laws against it would be invalidated (Loving v. Virginia). Afterwards, many biracial children were born, which created a new problem for those with different cultural backgrounds. People of different cultures face many troubling issues separate from the problems most White Americans have to face. The most offensive and abusive issue is racism. Racism is a major life-changing issue in society that hurts a majority of the ethnic cultures. A study reports, “Overall, 58% of Americans say racism is a “big problem in our society” (Neal). This shocking realization puts in the perspective the many issues that ethnic people endure. Although, biracial adolescents have to face racism in a different form. These adolescents aren’t accepted in society due to their
The very definition of ‘blackness’ is as broad as that of ‘whiteness,’ yet we’re seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.—Issa Rae
I met my wife Aretha in the fall of 1997; she had just moved from Portland, Oregon, to my hometown of Portland, Maine. By Christmas we were dating, and before we knew it we were both graduating and heading to Boston for college. We’re now happily married and have a one-year-old baby girl. It sounds like a classic high school sweetheart romance, right? Well, to us, yes. But to many people, we’re “different”. These people’s views have nothing to do with our love, our relationship, or our daughter. They have to do with race. Yes, I’m talking about the mere color of our skin. My wife is Black and I am White. We’re both Americans, born on the same soil and raised within the same language and popular culture—all variables are