Post 9, Preferences, Marcus Anderson

From our discussion last class I thought it was interesting about our discussion of inter racial dating. I just would like to say a few things about how I feel about it. I feel that for me at least, color has nothing in the world to do with relationship with another person. I think were were going wrong as people when we develop these stereotypes in which we don't even give a person the time of day because they don't fit our criteria. I believe when we do this we are missing out on possibly the perfect person for them in some cases. In my theory love has no color. Its just a dangerous thing when we as people don't step outside our comfort zone and accept people for who they are. I'm sure we all have done this ( or still are) but we have to drop that old traditional " only this race or that type." We all have to evaluate ourselves and see if we are being equal to accepting persons from another race. In most cases those stereotypes that we put with different races, usually is the opposite of everything we envisioned of a person. Take me for example, I'm a young African American male, with braids, attending SUNY Fredonia. Now if you just seen me passing from the first time would you envision me as you know me now or would you place me in a "stereotype"? These are real life issues and society as a whole needs to confront them to be batter at the end of the day.