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You Can Be Pro-Black and Support Interracial Couples

Being pro-Black is not mutually exclusive with only supporting Black relationships.

James Woods
3 min readFeb 1, 2021
Photo by Kelly Searle on Unsplash

Recently I was on the Clubhouse app in a room that was discussing if you can be pro-Black while supporting interracial couples. While some seemed to support the idea that you could, others felt that to be pro-Black meant exclusively supporting Black relationships. I’m a part of a mixed-race family where interracial relationships are on full display all the time. From my experience, being pro-Black can exist within interracial couples but a lot of work has to be done.

My mom is about 75% White, while my dad is Black. My siblings and I were taught at a young age to celebrate our diversity, to be proud of the fact that we were melting pots in our own rights. This idea extended beyond my immediate family. My grandparents are in an interracial marriage, as are most members of my extended family. To us, the intersection of races and cultures necessitated conversations around what it means to be pro-Black in America.

From a young age, my grandmom taught me that I needed to appreciate my blackness because although I was mixed, rarely would society see me as such. She explained it from the perspective of a glass of water. She said if you take a glass of water and put one drop…

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James Woods
James Woods

Written by James Woods

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