Food and Drink during the Japanese New Year

As a native of Georgia, I’m impressed by this.This is exactly what I’ve been telling my non-Southern peeps for years! Thanks for confirming it!

In some ways, I’m not totally surprised by this. It’s not that Georgia lacks in IR couples. I had an disagreement with a non-southern woman who really thought she knew Georgia..you know , IR couples don’t exist in the South and tried to make me sound as if I didn’t know my state very well. I was born and raised here and I wasn’t a sheltered woman. Who would know better? If she would have properly did research, she would have known that IR couples with Asians/Blacks existed in the South decades ago.

I lived in a White neighborhood and thankfully, all was good. With IR Asian/Black couples, I have also seen those along with Black/White ones. As I’ve just mentioned, it’s really wasn’t usual for me to see a IR couple of any sort,including Blacks and Asians. However, the few of these Black/Asian couples I did see consisted of women being of Laotian, Vietnamese or Cambodian descent. I would especially see them in the market with their Blasian kids. That was in the 1970′s. It was more of them with Blacks than Japanese and Koreans.In high school, I knew two Hapa girls. One was Half-Japanese?White, the other was Half-Thai/White.They went on to marry Black men. I also had a Vietnamese friend to do the same.

As I said, it doesn’t surprise me to see Asians doing this. The Asians I listed,including some Koreans, resides in AA communities,but the Japanese is another story. With the exception of the my Japanese-American former classmate,whose folks resided in a Black community along with the half-Thai one, most of the ones I knew resided the more White/mixed suburbia like Fayetteville, Duluth , Marietta or some other part of ATL.