My opinion of interracial reltaionships

In a previous blog, someone mentioned that they do not think the color of one's skin should effect who they should or shouldn't date. I completely agree. In the past, I have dated people of different races, and I remember getting a lot of grief from it. It really felt so upsetting to me because why shouldn't I, a good person, who is in love with their significant other, be with the person who makes me happy? I know people are going to have their "type" of person they would want to date, and that is okay. Some people are attracted to certain people and some aren't. In my opinion, I felt extremely hurt when someone in the class said that sometimes black women doesn't like seeing back men date white women because that is one less good man for them. I believe that people should be able to date whoever they wanted to. If a white man started dating one of my friends and he was an extremely good guy, I wouldn't be upset that my friend took a potentially good candidate for me to date. I would just be happy for them. That issue of women being concerned about one less good guy could work for different ethnicity's and same ethnicity's. I believe that skin color doesn't really matter when you are in love with someone. When you are in love you see they person for who they are. It's the people around them that can only concentrate on color. And I think that is something that our society needs to work on.