Anti-Racism Institute Calls For End To Same-Ethnicity Marriage
The anti-racism organization Project Change today announced the results of a major national study on marriage, race, and ethnicity, and called on Americans to re-evaluate their preference for partners of the same race or ethnicity. "Our study shows that over 95% of American marriages are between people with similar ethnic or racial backgrounds," said Project Change President Chuck Schafer, "nothing could show the racism and prejudice in our society than the continued practice of whites marrying whites, Jews marrying Jews, blacks marrying blacks, Catholics marrying Catholics, and latinos marrying latinos."
The ten-year Project Change study analyzed millions of marriages across the country, quickly identifying the widespread practice of people marrying others like themselves. "We are extremely concerned about what our findings say about attitudes in America," noted lead scientist James Juntie, "people clearly consider themselves and their "group" to be superior to other racial or ethnic types, and are choosing intra-ethnic partners accordingly. Individuals may believe they're not racists, but marrying someone like yourself calls that very much into question."
Project Change is calling for a thorough national re-evaluation of attitudes and dating practices. "The days of overt racism and Jim Crow have been replaced by a more subtle yet dangerous tribalism," asserted President Schafer, "we have to stop thinking of people in categories and treating them like 'the other'. Humanity can only advance together if we discard these racist practices and diversify our community into one." The Project Change report accompanying the study encourages black men to stop dating black women, and all similar "types" to commit to greater marital diversity.
Project Change goals included the following:
* Dismantle institutional policies and practices that promote racial discrimination * Ease tensions between majority and minority groups and reduce inter-ethnic conflict * Promote fair representation of diversity in the leadership of community institutions; and * Stop overt or violent acts of racial and cultural prejudice
Project Change is raising money to promote their inter-ethnic initiative by selling rainbow wristbands, bumper stickers, and lapel ribbons with the message, DEMAND MARITAL DIVERSITY! "We recognize that this important societal change can only occur one person and one family at a time," concluded sociologist Juntie, "but we believe that a new civil rights movement can catch fire and change America for the better. Only by exposing racism can we make it disappear."
Although the study's conclusions have met with some skepticism in the academic community, former Harvard President Lawrence Summers commended Project Change for thinking outside the box and making bold and impactful recommendations. Former Surgeon General Everett Koop, a Project Change board member and husband of an Indian-American woman, added, "Inter-ethnic melding is our next great challenge as a nation and world, and I'm confident that ills like domestic abuse and global warfare will diminish as we make this change." The report notes that having an Islamic wife would make it much less likely that a Baptist husband would hate Arabs.
"Our message is simple but profound," said Schafer in a recent interview with ABC's John Stossel, "diversity in marriage is the only way to end diversity as the separating barrier of humanity."
