On a positive note ...

[kwassa]

to counter this recent unpleasantness ....

Over the holidays my wife, daughter and I went to a wedding reception. It was our first for a legally-recognized same-sex marriage.

It was also an interracial marriage, one bride black, the other white.

The reception was in DC, where they live. DC now recognizes same-sex marriages from other states, and within a couple of months it will probably be legal to hold same-sex marriages here, if Congress doesn't step in to stop it, which is unlikely.

They put together two bus-loads of friends, took them up to Connecticut, got married there and came back the next day. We didn't do the bus trip as it wouldn't work with our toddler daughter. We did go to a special dinner especially for the family before a dance party in adjoining rooms of a very hip little hotel. One bride is a cousin-by-marriage; her uncle is my wife's step-father, and shares the same last name.

Anyways, what made the event fascinating was that it reached a new level of change in interracial relationships for me. I would like to give lots of details, but won't in order to preserve privacy. Two extended families, one black, one white at the reception. The black mother holds a high Federal position, and is a re-married widow with her new husband. All three of her children have married whites, with this final marriage. Spouses and children are all sitting at the table. One is European and speaking to her mixed-race kids in her native tongue. All are successful professionals. The white family included divorced and remarried parents with their new spouses. Everyone showed up to support this new gay married couple, some coming from very long-distances.

I guess what struck me the most was the complete support and the love.

After the dinner, a dance party next door of the friends of the newly-married couple, which made it largely a lesbian dance party, but also interracial in nature. The only new hetero couple there was another white male/black female couple.

I thought this an interesting little milestone on the path to progress in this country, at least for me. And, a good and positive thing.

[Number23]

1. And this was in DC you say??! Pffftt I don't believe it! You know there's nothing but Nigras there!

And all we do is create legislation, rally "the troops" and lobby Congress all in an effort to discriminate against people! Oh wait... that's not us, is it??

On the real, that's a great story. It is amazing how borders are truly diminishing in this world. That whole "marry your own" stuff is flying out of the window faster than we can acknowledge and while I admit there is something comfortable and great about staying in the town where you were born and marrying a local guy/gal, I can also attest to the fact that there is something great and wonderful about living your life BIG and on your own terms. I know I have no regrets.

I wish that couple all of the best. That is modern love for you, right there.

[kwassa]

2. Speaking of modern love ....

have you seen "Rachel Getting Married" directed by Jonathan Demme?

Aside from being a really great movie, with Anne Hathaway, of all people, doing a great turn as a recovering addict showing up at a family wedding, the background story is of this interracial and intertwined clan, in multiple ways a very modern family story. Rachel is the sister, and her fiance is black, but her father played by Bill Irwin is already remarried to Anna Deavere Smith ...

worth seeing.

[Number23]

3. No. Heard of it though. Didn't Anne Hathaway get an Oscar nod for that?

I really like her. She is so beautiful and an underrated actress. Now SHE actually deserves her magazine covers and cosmetics deals imo. :)

[kwassa]

4. she impressed me as an actress with this role alone.

a high rec from me, and I don't like many movies.

[AspenRose]

6. I agree 110%

Really can't add anything to that

[Fire1]

5. Great story and not at all surprising from what I've heard about

D.C. I hear it is quite cosmopolitan.