An actress arrest simply sheds light on common challenges interracial couples face.

Keli Goff

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Even though many are outraged at the detainment of Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts, maybe not each one is shocked. Though she had not been faced with any criminal activity, authorities handcuffed the actress week that is last.

Why this took place isnt clear. But her boyfriend, celebrity cook Brian Lucas, who had been here, thinks something different ended up being amiss, particularly that officers mistook the mixed-race couple for a prostitute and something of her customers. In accordance with Lucas, (he could be white, Watts is African-American) officers asked him, “How do she is known by you, just what relationship,” he continued. “They were concerns that quite honestly made me feel just like which they had been questioning me personally being such as the customer of the prostitute.”

A buddy of my own stated she’s got a stock response prepared whenever those who find themselves maybe perhaps not in uniform ask a likewise offensive question: “How did you two meet?”

Their not the relevant concern itself thats offensive, of program. Every few, irrespective of racial makeup, will hear this question countless times through the length of these relationship. Nevertheless when you will be element of an interracial few, its exactly exactly how its asked, where its expected and who its asked by, that always sends a sign that this isnt merely another nosy inquiry from your own senior aunt (who would like to be sure youre perhaps not trying that new fangled online dating sites material). […]