been forced on us by brute strength, ignorance, poverty, degradation and miscegenation. It is the white race roaming the world that has left it's trail of bastards and outraged women and then raised holy hands and deplored race mixture"(Bryan J Grapes 3). Not only did African Americans opposed interracial relationships but in the twenty first century the white culture felt that if interracial relationships increased the white people would become minorities due to the mixtures of race, which was called "browning of America." On the other hand, interracial relationships content that interracial romance is a step toward eliminating racial hatred. Yvette Walker believes that in interracial relationships the children are raised in a climate of tolerance. They will no longer matter, where color should not matter when it comes to love. In the famous words of Martin Luther King Jr. "people should not be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" (Bryan J Grapes 3). While writing my paper the words of Martin Luther King stayed in my mind and I wondered if my father ever heard them. My father didn't believe in interracial relationships yet faith dealt him another hand. My step brother married an African American women and my father thought he would die. He yelled and stated "Why a prieta, I didn't send him to college to find a black girl." After fighting in vain he accepted my sister in law. Which at the present time I have two nephews and one niece. I remember asking my father what changed his mind he said, "She's not that dark or the kids." I just laughed and couldn't believe how ignorant he could be. Then on another occasion the whole family got together and for the first time my father met my daughters boyfriend, which was African American. My father was sitting in the living room and the door bell rang, I said to my father Lisa' s boyfriend is here, when Dwayne walked in my fathers ey...
