Interracial and African American Paranormal discussion

Hi, everyone, I wanted to share a sample question from my first Cultural Interview. You can find the rest of it and other interesting things on my blog, http://rawhitebooksandmore.weebly.com. If you or someone you know is interested in being interviewed, let me know!

RA: Tell us a little about you and your husband's cultural backgrounds.

Vanesa: My husband and I are both immigrants to this country. My family moved here when I was a preteen from Argentina, and my husband is from Trinidad and Tobago. His parents immigrated first and were living here for 10 years before my husband joined them, by that time he was almost 18 yrs old.

RA: How about strangers and casual acquaintances? Do you ever feel like people are 'staring'?

Vanesa: There have been times that we are stared at, but who knows all the reasons why. There have been moments of "aggressions". I've had Hispanic men (not of my own culture, which is a whole other discussion on how the Hispanic culture discriminates within itself based on skin, heritage, etc.) ask me why am I with a black man. It has nothing to do with who my husband is as a person, it is only posed because of the color of his skin. Which, by the way, if you ask an African-American my husband is "light-skinned". I happen to have light olive skin tone, so to them, for me to marry someone with darker skin than mine is.....I don't even know what! I guess to them it's beneath me, which I find ridiculous and beneath me to judge someone solely on their skin color.

Hello, I read this Q&A and I found it interesting. I tried to read the rest of interview on your website and couldn't do it. I would have to sign up to weebly or something. Not sure I want to do that. It seems that every culture has issues with color. I wondered if Vanesa got the "disapproval glare" from African-American women. I'm a black woman and I felt like I was accused of this but I was innocent. I only wince at fiction real life doesn't concern me.

Also this is for R.A. do you like weebly? I am working on ezine and considering all my options.

So far, I love Weebly. It's relatively simple and has plenty of free options. But as to your first post, there shouldn't be any problem with you reading it if you just click on the link. You don't have to sign in, or anything as far as I know. You can subscribe, which would mean you would get an email notice once a week about my new content, but you should be able to read without doing that. I know I get a lot more hits than subscribers. Would you mind checking the link one more time? If you can't get it to work, I'll have to try to figure out what's going on. Vanesa did talk about some reactions from black women.
Thanks for reading and for your comments!

Okay I will do that. I may even subscribe because I like intercultural issues. I wanted to be an Anthropologist once upon a time.

Looks interesting. I subscribed. Your family looks like someone I'd want to be neighbors with.

Andrea wrote: "Looks interesting. I subscribed. Your family looks like someone I'd want to be neighbors with."

I don't know, we can be kind of rowdy :) You know, egg dying the dog and things like that.

I'm still looking for people to interview, so if you have an interracial relationship, please message me and share your story!

I just realized I never posted a sample of my latest interview for those who are interested, so here goes. Next week I'll be posting an interview with one of our members in this group.

This week I have an interview with Aly and Naquan, who are an interracial teen couple. Naquan says he was worried about getting scalped at first, since Aly follows her Native American heritage, but so far things are going well :). Give it a read, you'll enjoy it!

RA: Aly, could you briefly explain your ethnicity and religion/religious background for our readers?

Aly: I am a mixture of different ethnicities, but I choose to follow my Native American heritage. I participate in ceremonial sweat lodges, pow wows, etc. A few years ago, my family and I were adopted into a Maryland tribe.



RA: Naquan, could you do the same?

Naquan: Well, I am of the African American descent. I have some Native American in me somewhere, but it's there. Lol. I have followed Catholicism my entire life and I still follow it even today. But, I am opening up to looking into my Native American ancestors.



RA: How long have you been dating?


Aly/Naquan: We have been dating for 9 months now.



RA: Aly, how has your immediate and extended family reacted to you dating Naquan?

Aly: My family loves Naquan for who he is as a person. My youngest brother (Age 14 with autism) loves to play games with Naquan. He always has a smile on his face when Naquan is around. They support our relationship and want to see us last a very long time.



RA: Naquan, what does your family think?

Naquan: This is how they feel...All the girls that I brought to the house, my family were like, "They need a sandwich in their lives." But, now they don't even say it because they know Aly can cook. They are so used to me bringing home some up-tight, preppy and sassy, skinny girls. Thinking they are all that and a bag of Doritos. They just got tired of them and I did too. So, I did myself a little experimenting and I love the outcome of it. My family accepts her for who she is and what she has and doesn't have.

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