The Rise of Interracial Marriages in America 🇺🇸 .

Relationships are the landmarks of a pleasant, fulfilled, and a well-lived life. At times, they are also complicated and personal, as two people co-create their unique little world over time, breaking strains of racial past, flawed classifications, the idea of order, and simply creating a history that is theirs alone. And although this is accurate of all relationships, for this article, let’s focus on the rise of interracial marriages in America, tying it into the road we have traveled to get here.

Before I dive in, it is a great worth, reflecting on the miles we have traveled as a nation. First, even though the perception of race is socially constructed and changes crossed various countries and time, it’s correlated to meaningful and often painful real-world marks on our skins, that have shaped our lives. There’s an adequate reality, depending on what racial category we are perceived to belong to, we are confronted with unequal levels of privileges, prejudice, unfairness, and violence.

It’s been half a century since the US supreme court decriminalized interracial marriages. It has been 52 years since Loving v. Virginia,1967, and now, 2019. And if you come to think about it; it was just during the lives of our grandparents. And since the beginning of our great nation, and within only 52 years, great strides have been made. To…