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The Daily OrangeStudents express concerns during forum about interracial dating
By Marshand Boone
Posted: 10/28/03, 1:21 AM EST Section: News
He has not dated a black woman, but has not shunned the experience, either.
"If it happens, it happens. I don't really think it would affect me," Fastow said.
Roger Samuels, a senior management major, recounted an incident that happened when he was in the seventh grade.
"At an early age, I was forced to deal with my racial identity," he said.
Samuels's mother is German, and his father is black. His white girlfriend's parents became upset when they learned she was dating a biracial man. He said her parents asked her questions like, "Have you thought about what your children would look like?"
Most students, like Rachel Aminah Williams, an information management technology and women's studies major, felt that people should date and marry whomever they want as long as the relationships are based on love and not trying to raise one's status by dating someone outside their race.
But Jamaall Knight, a senior economics major, believes that people should stick with their own race. He doesn't agree with interracial dating, and said he'd never date someone who was not his own color.
"I have so much love for my black sisters right now," he said.
"If it happens, it happens. I don't really think it would affect me," Fastow said.
Roger Samuels, a senior management major, recounted an incident that happened when he was in the seventh grade.
"At an early age, I was forced to deal with my racial identity," he said.
Samuels's mother is German, and his father is black. His white girlfriend's parents became upset when they learned she was dating a biracial man. He said her parents asked her questions like, "Have you thought about what your children would look like?"
Most students, like Rachel Aminah Williams, an information management technology and women's studies major, felt that people should date and marry whomever they want as long as the relationships are based on love and not trying to raise one's status by dating someone outside their race.
But Jamaall Knight, a senior economics major, believes that people should stick with their own race. He doesn't agree with interracial dating, and said he'd never date someone who was not his own color.
"I have so much love for my black sisters right now," he said.
