"I find this thread weird. I really don't find one colour of skin preferable to others. I don't see a mixed coupling as any better than an 'unmixed' coupling. I don't see mixed children as preferable to 'unmixed' children. Someone please tell me what's wrong with me."

I doubt anything is wrong with you. Nothing that I know of, anyway. I don't think that the mixing of the races as a positive thing, in the context of this thread, is meant as anything but...

...I'm fed up with the race-as-politics thing that permates, not the day to day activities most of live through -- middle America has become pretty darn color-blind. But it's the manipulations of leaders and those who gain power by our differences that I can't stand anymore. And in a perverse way, those political manipulations are causing a racism that wouldn't be there -- and it's making that racism somewhat valid. When a group of people can be led to act as a single entity (like one race voting over 95% for one political party) it cannot be said that one cannot stereotype. In this political atmosphere, yes, one can fairly safely stereotype. And that's not a good thing.

Azizi,

You can see your memes wherever you wish. I doubt anyone meant it the way you took it. When I say that the mixed race people I know are beautiful, I mean it two ways --

1) literally -- the mixed race people I know, or know of, are beautiful (Stephanie, Jake, Greg, etc)

2) I like the mixes. Just like I like the looks of a beautiful white man/woman/child or beautiful black man/woman/child, or a beautiful Japanese man/woman/child, I like the way the mixes manifest themselves in a beautiful mixed man/woman/child. Skin color that is different and not common in non-mix. Eyes that are different and not found common in non-mix. Body shapes that are different and not found common in non-mix.

So you can keep your chip on your shoulder if you'd like. And you can keep defining us whites as to what you THINK we're saying. But I don't think it's really necessary.