Why Is Interracial Marriage Wrong

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“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being-- neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there’s no question of integration or intermarriage. It’s just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.”-(Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X Pg. ). As a citizen of the United States, I choose to believe that the color of one's skin does not justify what your future holds, not how you should act, nor who you must spend your life with, I see it as two human beings wanting to open up their world through the other with love. Once you look past the skin you were born with you're just the same thing everyone else is, muscles, bones, and a heart. Though some Caucasians and African Americans believe in interracial marriage within their community and support the decisions being made due to the increase of acceptance however there …show more content…

Many of the individuals who were polled believed it was alright to marry someone of another race since we are all human. Families that have an interracial couple living amongst them feel it natural as if ethnicity wasn’t a factor dividing the couple. “In a Pew Research Survey, 43% of Americans felt that intermarriages would help the country for the better.” Which essentially it can. Couples of color have an open mind and are exposed to the different types of ethnicities and styles the partner partakes in. These benefits then get exposed to the family, friends, and soon the whole neighborhood. This then gets others from around the world to try and open up their minds which can cause new ideas and ways to help on

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