How do you feel about interracial marriage?

It depends.

If I’m one of the two people involved, I hopefully think, “Wow! I’m getting married to somebody I love! May our paths ever grow together, and I hope she continues to love my cooking!”

If I’m not one of the two people involved, I hopefully think, “Wow! Two cool people are getting married! What would be a nice wedding gift? I hope I have a chance to cook something for them!”

If I’m not one of the two people involved and I don’t know the couple, I might think about all the unnecessary hurt and alienation that came into my family because of my parents’ rejection of my sister’s interracial relationship and daughter. I fervently hope that the wedding couple will be spared the senselessness that afflicted my family and so many others.

And I sigh, and I shake my head with sadness, and wonder when this painful idiocy of racism will finally end.