, interracial married couples will meet with resistance from religious people who have been reported as saying that if their own children married African-Americans, they would kill them (Perkins 30). The church must repent not only for bad theology but also for failing to protest racist laws in the past (Myra 18). The law is equally to blame for causing unnecessary tension. A study of thirty nine "middle class African-American--Caucasian" couples in New York found that most of these couples had experienced being pulled over by police who suspected either the African-American women to be a prostitute or the African-American man to be a rapist (Perldns 30). Edger, a Caucasian Jewish man, and Jean, an African-American Baptist women, on more than one occasion have been stopped and arrested by police because they were walking arm in arm (Aunapu 65). Races have mixed dating back to the Colonial days. Over time, other races have blended with Caucasians without question. African-American mixing, however, has been accountable for the "one drop" theory, which has defined a way to permanently separate African-Americans. The "one drop" theory was reinforced in the landmark Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling in 1896. The Plaintiff, Homer Plessy, argued that segregation was wrong and he should not be discriminated against because, after all, he was only one-eighth African-American. The justices, however, ruled that he must ride in the "separate but equal" coaches reserved for "colored people." Almost a hundred years later, in 1986, the Supreme Court, upheld a decision forcing a Louisiana woman who was only one-thirty second African-American, to be legally declared as African-American (Norinen 108). Troubles do not stop here for interracial married couples. The problems that are faced by interracial parents are mirrored in their children. On one occasion, the Bronz family had sent their daughter, Shelly, who looks Caucasian, to a pajama party....
