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[judecorp]

Okay, so I was on my way home today on the red line T, and the high school kids started pouring in. Since I ride the Ashmont line, lots of African-American teenagers filled my train car - many with iPods and Walkmans and similar (and overly-loud and bassy) products. In front of me, two young women were standing between rows of seats, leaning against the poles.

They had a really amusing and flirtatious banter going on between them, and I had a bit of inner dialogue about whether they were friends or 'friends,' if you know what I mean. Part of me berated myself for assuming they were flirting solely on the fact that one girl (they looked somewhere between 14 and 16) was quite (handsomely) butch gangsta and the other was much more traditional Baby Phat girl. But they were so cute to watch, so I kept my eyes on them on the sly as the girlier girl continued to throw playful punches and slaps at the butch girl. When we got to Andrew, the butch girl shrugged her coat up onto her shoulders to get ready to leave, pressed a quick kiss on the girlier girl's lips, and exited the train. The girlier girl sat on the bench across from me at that point.

My grin met her blush in the center of the train car.

Comments

[siercia]

Oh, I get you now. And that totally makes sense... can't be telling the kids to do stuff you don't have the courage to do yourself.

And it's only been about 45-50 years that interracial couples were even legal, forget accepted, and at least in SOME places we've come pretty damn far to it being entirely normal. Not, of course, that I'd want to pack my family up and move somewhere that we'd get weird looks or worse, mind you. It just takes time. Hell, it really just takes the time of generational change - waiting for all those old bigots to die off takes a long time.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I agree that a lot of times you just have to wait it out for the bigots to die, as terrible as it sounds that's totally true. However, it's also true that people tend to become more conservative as they age, and that conservatism in youth is pretty trendy in the parts of the world where conservativism is king. Fie!

I know that change happens, and that it happens slowly. I also know that I am ridiculously impatient. :)