Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Mixing Races
Message-ID: <890@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 08:38:14 EST
Article-I.D.: mmintl.890
Posted: Mon Dec 16 08:38:14 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Dec-85 19:18:14 EST
References: <7800848@inmet.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
Lines: 18
Summary: Yes, but


In article <7800848@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
> I wonder if many agree with me that the permanent  way  to  bury
>the  problem  of  racism is through racial intermarriage.

I can't let this pass without generating at least a little controversy.
Yes, this is the long term solution to racism.  But it isn't sufficient.
It takes at least 50 years (2 generations); and that assumes that inter-
racial marriages become very common very soon.  More likely, it will take
2 to 4 times as long.  So we need to actively combat racism in the mean
time.

Also, there is a question of cause and effect here.  It is racist attitudes,
in large part, which prevent inter-racial marriages.  Get rid of the
attitudes, and the rest follows.  If you don't at least weaken those
attitudes, your solution won't happen.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108