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I have actually met a number of people who do feel this way, including young people, since I joined the Navy. While in bootcamp, we were sharing our relationships back home on a Sunday morning (basically during our only free time), and one of the girls who I got along with okay suddenly went cold toward me when I showed everyone a picture of my boyfriend (who was black) from back home. She actually seemed to be friends with the black girls in the division, but she told us she felt that my relationship was wrong. And then there were some guys I knew in the country bar I frequented in Hawaii that were open about their dislike of mixed race coupling. One of the guys said he would take an Asian girl home to sleep with but he'd never be in any real relationship with her (lost all respect for them and kept my distance after that). And both my father and my husband were asked by their fathers whether my mother and I (respectively) were black when each father was told their son was going to get married.
How depressing. My ex is mixed race and neither he nor our daughter ever had to deal with any of that, thankfully.