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[b]Maybe I grew up in a bubble[/b], but it's hard to believe that in the mid 1990s in an east coast city, someone would have such an obvious reaction to a white girl dating a black boy. Not liking it or being surprised, sure, but the people I knew would have been better at keeping that to themselves.[/quote]

I think you grew up in a bubble.  Spike Lee's Jungle Love was about an interracial romance, the backlash/discrimination the couple encounters, in NYC in the 1990s.[/quote]

Also, the OJ trial stirred up a lot of race issues in the mid-90’s.[/quote]

I lived in Pittsburgh (where the Pearsons lived) in the early ‘90s. Interracial dating was not common outside of the universities. Even on campuses, there were many incidents of outright racism and even violence against mixed couples walking through South and North Oakland. A friend grew up just outside of Pittsburgh and upon visiting her family for Easter Sunday, her grandfather informed me that I was the first “colored” to ever set foot in the house, but I “looked clean” and if I didn’t steal, he was fine with it, being a holiday. My friend was mortified, but her family seemed to think that it went better than they expected. This was 1991.[/quote]

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