21st Century Blind Eyes

Last night I met a twenty-five-year-old young man who's breaking the mold. He moved down from Pennsylvania to assert his independence, having recently gotten a discharge from the US military.
He also used to sing for a heavy metal group. He complimented my treatment of the Doors' "Roadhouse Blues," telling me that anything I wanted would be on HIS tab. (Sometimes, it's really tempting to drink something other that unsweet tea.)
So the guy says, "What's this fascination of white girls with rap?" Sounded more like a question from a guy my age to maybe a thirteen-year-old. Come to think of it, I asked a similar question when Josh was that age. My answer was, "You tell ME!"
The young man is not fond of dating or marriage between African Americans (blacks) and Caucasians...rare for a young man of his age, or at least rare for someone that age to have the boldness to vocalize such an opinion.
I am sick to death of the painting of your and my ancestors as some sort of ignorant, and racist animals. About a year ago, I used the phrase "negroid features" to a similarly aged young man, and his head whipped around as if someone had told a racist joke. How DARE I use ANY word starting with the letter "n" in that context? Ignorance. Nothing but ignorance. It is a totally legitimate word.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I LIKE the fact that God made us different and I think HE had a purpose for it and I don't think it's anointed by Him for us to try to undo that. There's a big difference between interracial dating and marriage being acceptable and no big deal, and urging people to do it because it's somehow STYLISH!
I had a crush on a girl I thought was Latino, and learned later she was partially African American.
I don't shun black folk. Heck, I LIVE with them and some of my best neighbors and friends are not of the Caucasian persuasion.
CBS' "Cold Case" shows overwhelmingly paint a US as racist, but it is WAY overblown. The fifties are always depicted as an ignorant time, even though that is not the case.
There was no hatred in the young man's voice who questioned me...rather an attempt to try to understand. Somehow the indoctrination of VH-1, MTV and the Soviet-style, so called "public" schools have not gotten to this young man, who despite it all, thinks for himSELF!
Sorry, if you start the rhetoric that my ancestors were racist, since you have no clue, you need to SHUT UP!