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    Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks

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    Image of sashajames sashajames
    04/15/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    The racism in America scares...Thank God I am Canada!
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    04/15/09

    @sashajames: Yes it is excellent that you are Canada. But we are invading you soon, so get ready.
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    Image of AuntPeniston AuntPeniston
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    The Post-Dispatch has a weekend magazine? Fancy city folk.
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    Image of Don McKenzie Don McKenzie
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    This is for all the White people who CONSISTENTLY tell me there is no more racism in America since Obama was elected. As a Black man, hearing that grates on my nerves more then you would ever know....
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    Image of foofybunny foofybunny
    04/14/09

    @Don McKenzie: As a white man who doesn't discriminate, I appreciate your whiny nature. You should continue to hope that everyone takes pity on you for your color, that way you will never aspire to become president (neither will your kids).


    Or you could just get over it and succeed like the Asians and the Hispanics (and the Irish and the Polish and the Germans and the French.. et al).


    Hey... here's a good outlet for your rage... hate me!

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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    04/15/09

    @foofybunny: Good lord, who let you in here? You don't make a good outlet for rage because you're just too darn sad and pathetic. I wanna give you a pat on the head and send you on your way.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    04/15/09

    @foofybunny: Wtf? Somebody get a broom!
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    04/15/09

    @Don McKenzie: Just to address your point, I think you need to get to know some smarter white people. Im a honky and I don't believe that. ( Hey meet me in the library and I'll tell you all about it)
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    To be fair, the whole thing was rigged when the newspaper signed up its commenters at a McCain rally last fall.
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    Image of Kurt Greenbaum Kurt Greenbaum
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    Thanks for linking to our Conversation about Race topic on this issue. I'm pleased to see a number of Gawker readers stopping by and adding their comments. An intelligent, reasoned and professional rebuttal would be of great value. Would hate to see it turn into a name-calling game. Incidentally, I hope folks are also noticing that there were a number of rebuttals posted to the racist views before Gawker took this up.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    04/14/09

    @Kurt Greenbaum: And why are you hoping that, Kurt? As a multiculti mutt born in Indiana, I can't wait to be enlightened.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    HA! I bet the St Louis Post-Dispatch is considering putting something controversial on the front cover this week too! Let's see which controversy they choose.
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    Image of johnva johnva
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    I like how similar the arguments these bigots are using are to the arguments being used against gays. You can pretty much word-for-word find the same stuff being thrown at gay marriage just by substituting the words. It exposes the bigoted agenda of the anti-gay right and also the fact that a lot of the people who are against gay marriage are also probably the SAME people who are against interracial relationships.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    They don't call parts of Missouri little Dixie for nothing.
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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    A few years ago the university where I work put out a brochure that showed two students walking out of a classroom building. They were a white female and an african-american male student. The students were not holding hands, kissing or otherwise acting like anything other than two students leaving class at the same time and talking. We received outraged phone calls and letters (and some emails, but this was the 90s and people still sent letters). Epic education fail.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    04/14/09

    @Flackette is a bored flack: Well. Imagine what the reaction would have been had the race-gender disposition been reversed.


    Or to throw some Asian in the mix. Or Hispanic. ZOMG other languages!


    Miles of EPIC FAIL to go.

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    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    This image was also on the front page of STLToday.com and I knew people were gonna flip out. I hate to say that I saw it coming.
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    Image of ClockOnTheStove ClockOnTheStove
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    Race, schmace! (But I am offended.)


    A library is for readin', not breedin'.

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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    Sweet! Missouri proves newspapers ARE still relevant, because of quality feedback, the likes of which you just can't get on the Innerwebz!


    /sarc

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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    Well then who the hell is it that watches all the 'big black monster cock anally ravages white chick' porn?
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    Image of Gabriel Solis Gabriel Solis
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    Honestly, this is FANTASTIC. I lived in St. Louis in grad school, married to an interracial woman, father of an interracial child, and I have a hard time getting people to believe how backwards the place was in the late 90s. This totally fits my experience there. In like 98 or so the "alternative" weekly paper did a cover story on interracial relationships and how they're not that weird, really! For the record, black folks and white folks in St. L were equally likely to object to interracial relationships "in public," in my experience.
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    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    04/14/09

    @Gabriel Solis: Riverfront Times FTW!


    And you're right, both black folks and white folks in St. Louis (b/c that's the only city that I have 25 years of experience with) are equally ridiculous when it comes to things like this. As a multi-racial child, I never understood why people looked at my parents the way they did until they explained it to me while we sat in Ted Drewes parking lot one Sunday.

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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    04/14/09

    In reply to Five Arguments Against Interracial Dating, From Missouri Rednecks
    I remember when Bunim-Murray would run the show about casting "The Real World," you always got this same shit from kids that grew up in OK, LA and Missouri. Those three states, like clockwork. It was always all, "ah jus' don't believe that people of other races should be datin' one 'nuther."


    And then, of course, Bunim-Murray would cast them. To be *controversial*


    Thank god Missouri is no longer the bellwether state.

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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    04/14/09

    @RonMwangaguhunga: Louisiana? People from Louisiana had problems with "race-mixing"??

    I haven't watched anything that came out of Bunim-Murray for awhile. Perhaps this is why.
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