It seems there is a kind of tribal logic to staying within your race (in the old days, it protected you). Now that is giving way to another set of logic, which is finding the most compatible person (now that we, er, don't live in tribes?) Its like the internet or something, may not be better than your old newspaper but it just sorta happens (& better once your figure it out)?

I mean, what kind of a football team would you have if you only allowed one race? (Alabama found out the hard way when integrated USC kicked their butts in '70, after venturing out of their "safe" unintegrated league).

The problem of clinging too long to the history of ethnic identities is it truthfully can get complex as to who is to blame for what...intermarriage is a "reset button", fair & equal education the reparation? Do I want to blame 'Bama for being racist at one time or credit them for lessons learned and integrating in the mid 70s?

Intermarriage has been around a long time...in the margins of history books, you'll see many White-Native American, African American-Native American etc unions. They generally advocated for peace, as they had stakes in many places (they were pretty much forced to become better people). Many were initially treated badly, but I could create a list of thousands of wonderful people that were the products of such unions. Key & Peele, for example, have an African Ameican identity, but are mining excellent humor from being the product of mixed-race parents.

I married a woman of another race, my sainted departed wife. Whatever I lost from my family/community in acceptance I more than gained in character. I look at my two wonderful boys now as an "evolution"...it didn't come easy but its basically adapt or die (yes Crackers, you are the modern Neanderthals)

As Andrew Young said "the race problem will be solved in the bedroom, not the courtroom".