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Does simply answering this make you uneasy?: If someone redt an ethnic Nigerian guy with an Afro hair to date your daughter and at a later time someone else redt an ethnic European to date your daughter, all other things being equal, would you be more reluctant or slower to pass on the first shidduch proposals than the second?
It’s not difficult for me to answer. I told you what I’d do — I’d let my daughter decide.
You want me to answer the question of “If I wasn’t me, what would I do?” You’re asking me to answer as if I were a different person who belonged to a group that has a very different outlook on dating and marriage than I do. So, any answer I give along that way is meaningless, because it’s based on fiction rather than how I would react in real life.
That’s not good enough for you? Too bad. I’m not going to play your game of “if you were a racist, what would you do?” My answer stands — all other things being equal, I would let my daughter decide which one she wants to date. If it’s the white boy, so be it. If it’s the black boy, so be it.
The Wolf