Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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I ^,:|| I am blonde, white, Swedish, Prctes V 9ii *mJEL I *antf and Samay Davis is negro, a |L^^«Pte#| instead of hating each other, I — we love each other • So we have de | "| cided to get married, after Septem > immm ber 28th nexty namely ^en ^ divor ^^^Mnj&S from my first husband has become HI BmHH actual* Every time that a Negro makes up his mind to marry a white woman, a deep, morbid concern is created around them, especially in the United States, where unfortunately very de race barriers still exist. Then any time that a Negro and a white woman, who are very well known, speak of marriage, the world seems to divide into two opposite factions, both of them well trained d both of them very strong, both of them alleging reasons seemingly valid. But all these unknown people, who want to thrust their nose into other people's life, give the impression of not realizing that, if a Negro and a white woman have made up their ndnd to get married, this is an evident proof that they love each other. If they have de-| cided to take this step, in spite the difference of race, their love is certainly much greater than that of many other people, who are willing to get, married, because they belong to the same race, but perhaps they would not do so, if they were of difi| rent race. Now I should like to ask all the be | trothed of the same race this question: would you j marry your play boy or your play girl, if he or s were of different races? If their answer is posi tive, I should be led to presume that theirs is a real love, but if their answer were negative, I should say that their love is relative, or in any