Interracial Dating: Love Takes Time to Heal Wounds

Time, because of history and misconceptions about interracial marriage opponents and their reasons for opposing interracial relationships, plays the biggest factor in the continuing existence of racism in the United States. Even though Guess Who's Coming To Dinner aptly demonstrates that "Race is not an issue where love is concerned, but compromise is", the wound of racism is still too deep for the country to have recovered more than thirty years after the end of the Civil Rights Movement (Interracial dating isn't easy, but love is color blind). In addition, many black women resent black men dating white women, others have cultural/religious (or in Joanna's father's case, social) reasons for having some apprehension about dating other races, and the American people as a whole automatically seem to expect to date those of their own race and actively seek to date those of their own race. Despite these roadblocks, time is also part of the solution to eradicating racism. It's going to take more generations of not only interracial love but continued interaction among races to solve the problem of racism.