How to be a racist: anonymously, of course!
By contributing hater Little Nightowl in the Big City
Thanks to the overreaction of some Missourians, some people will never know the “Seven Best Places To Smooch” in St. Louis. That’s because the readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Go! Magazine couldn’t help but get past the subjects on the cover, Chris Spencer and Emilee Murphree, a real-life couple who have been together for over two years:
Apparently, reality is too real
The country’s ignorant superstars came out in droves to the article message board to offer their words of wisdom like the one below with–as always–no logic or reason to back their belief:
From 1buschstadiumplz: “Haven’t read the story but dont (sic) like to see blacks and whites kissing;”
This is a classic example of someone who took the time to comment but didn’t even bother to read the damned article, and yet admitted it. Clearly I’d be giving these people the benefit of the doubt if I thought they used their brain before speaking. Luckily the couple’s friends and family came to their defense. But the comment from the guy below probably angered me the most:
Reader greggh tried a middle-of-the-road approach: “I’m not judging the concept of biracial couples at all, but in a city as racially polarized as St. Louis, I’m shocked that the PD would go so out of its way to be so gratuitously provacative. This completely undercut the message of the article.”
The fact this person implies that the only reason Go! posted this picture WAS to stir controversy makes me want to smack him as hard as the other people who have a problem with it for no reason at all. Why was the couple chosen?
The magazine’s production designer chose Chris Spencer and Emilee Murphree—who have been together for 2 1/2 years—-because he knew them and believed they would make a great model for illustrating the story. Greenbaum said nobody gave it another thought.
This isn’t meant to be provocative and if you think it is maybe you should start learning how to use a walking stick because you’re going to see more people like Chris Spencer and Emilee Murphree and blindness is your best option.
And your best option isn't looking too good
As of four years ago there were 422,000 marriages of black and white individuals making up 7 percent of the United States’ 59 million marriages. In 1970 there were 65,000 marriages between blacks and whites. And remember that was four years ago. Since then we’ve even had a successful black woman and a white man fall in love in a full length-film.
Until you can provide a logical explanation for why interracial relationships should be outlawed again–other than the fact you want to reach through the screen and whoop the daylights out of the oldest, brattiest child from Jon & Kate Plus 8–then please get over yourself. The only thing I’ll permit both races to gripe about is Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav for obvious reasons.
A lot of problems here, and race is the least of 'em
interracial relationships should be built upon your feelings, and who you want or choose to be with.race shouldn’t have anything to do with dating of marriage anymore.the time of slavery and segregation is long gone.im mixed myself.with black, white,and latino.so intragate.stop discrimination.and segragation…
Wow you know what – the last few years these “Singles” commercials have totally bothered me for this reason. They say things like “Find your perfect match at Eharmony” and show pictures of white people dating white people, black people dating black people, Asians with asians etc. Their words almost saying – this is your perfect match, someone that looks like you.
THEN out of the blue – they have a BI-RACIAL couple commercial! It was amazing. I applauded at the TV – simply because I have NEVER seen it on a singles commercial before.