On Intermarriage

Listening to Chris Matthews on MSNBC talk about Barack Obama, I heard something quite interesting. Matthews believes that more people are accepting of the idea of a black president and cited the growth of intermarriage as an example of improving race relations in the United States. Of course, with the Martin Luther King holiday just past, a lot of people are looking at America today and seeing how it has improved on race relations on some ways and not in others, but it's actually quite astonishing to thing more people are accepting of interracial marriages, forty years after Guess Who's Coming To Dinner hit the theaters.

So what do I think of mixed marriages? Well, there should definitely be two of each! Seriously, I not only approve of them, I would be open to entering one myself. My family - who is so conservative on this issue that I'd even be disowned for marrying a Protestant - needn't worry about me marrying a black woman, though, for one simple reason: music.

I've never met a black woman who liked the same kind of music that I do. Least of all black women in my own age group, who likely have never heard of Motown of Stax-Volt. Today's black women prefer disco and hip-hop, and the only white performer they even bother with is Madonna (who of course, is the archetype of Pure Evil in my book). In fact, I've never met any black people, male or female, who ever liked white rock music. In fact, there's only one black woman I can think of who likes Led Zeppelin or Cream. . . Secretary of State Condolezza Rice.

I don't date Republicans. :-O