If you've ever been in one, you know an interracial relationship is not easy. As much as we want to be a post-racial society (whatever that means), race often intersects with too many other layers of identity for it to not create similarities among those of the same and differences between those of different colors. Who we are and what we value can be attributed to many things (how we were raised, experiences we had), and those things can stem from our race and ethnicities.
But anytime two different people come together, it's going to be hard, regardless of color. What makes it even harder is when everyone else and your environment is betting against you because of color. If debates with your lover about things he/she will just "never understand" aren't enough, the added pressure of people staring at you in public spaces or your family and friends hating on your relationship is enough to make you want to run away. Chicago rapper Legit's new video for the single "A Nigger in Northface" is about this very thing. A beautiful portrayal of love, misunderstanding, and prejudice with a twisted ending, the video makes you wonder just how far from reality the outcome really is. If "post-racial" is the goal, then we truly have a lot of work to do.
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