Mixed Marriage
I am a white relataively conservative Englishman, married to a black Zimbabwean. We have had very few problems in the UK (with the exception of Dagenham (where we used to live) which is the heartland of the fascist BNP), none in Zimbabwe.
We have received some very odd looks in a few places (especially Durban in Kwa Zulu Natal) when we've been on holiday in South Africa, but I've been into townships in Zimbabwe and Malawi at night with my wife and had no problems.
We are both members of the Conservative Party in the UK and have been welcomed with open arms. My wife has even catered (she runs a small catering business) a few Birthday Parties for local conservative coucillors with an all African menu and they have gone down a storm.
The fact that a couple are of two different races should not matter a jot now, especially as DNA has proved that there is greater divergence within races than there is between races. But Americans who don't travel have a strange outlook on the world.
By the way Barack Obama is not the first POTUS with an African American Heritage. Just Google it.
I am a white relataively conservative Englishman, married to a black Zimbabwean. We have had very few problems in the UK (with the exception of Dagenham (where we used to live) which is the heartland of the fascist BNP), none in Zimbabwe.
We have received some very odd looks in a few places (especially Durban in Kwa Zulu Natal) when we've been on holiday in South Africa, but I've been into townships in Zimbabwe and Malawi at night with my wife and had no problems.
We are both members of the Conservative Party in the UK and have been welcomed with open arms. My wife has even catered (she runs a small catering business) a few Birthday Parties for local conservative coucillors with an all African menu and they have gone down a storm.
The fact that a couple are of two different races should not matter a jot now, especially as DNA has proved that there is greater divergence within races than there is between races. But Americans who don't travel have a strange outlook on the world.
By the way Barack Obama is not the first POTUS with an African American Heritage. Just Google it.