my girlfriend is Jewish and i am black, is there anything wrong with this?

Question

Her parents are ready to dis-own her if she does not fall out of love with me, i want to marry this girl in some time, but i also think highly of the bonds of family. her father told her that blacks are the lowest of all the races, she also tells me her friends have shared the type of talks with their parents.
Will i dirty your Jewish blood if I persue a family with this women, should i forget about love, should i fight for her, will the almighty turn his back to the chosen people because of my mudblood. DO the jewish people hate me, do they teach their off spring that i am LESS,
Since this, i have done a little research about black and jews, and i found out that the jewish people played a large part in the slave trade and in the futher deconstruction of the black race. I was not around back then and neither was her parents, so why hard feeling. her whole family has this: i'm better air about them. is this a part of the jewish faith.

Answer 1

Nothing at all. They are racist snobs - that is NOT part of Judaism.

If you love each other, and are committed to making it work, regardless of their baseless objections, get married. Hopefully you will BE HAPPY and SHOW THEM! :-)

Answer 2

Jewish people also played a large part in the Civil Rights movment, and some Africans held slaves. Look, there are good and bad examples for each nationality and culture. I say marry who you love, but at the same time love doesn't put food on the table. You guys are going to have some diffcult times ahead of you, especially if you are abandoned by extended family. If the love is strong enough to endure that go for it, but if you really aren't sure maybe you should wait.

Answer 3

Judaism does not teach that black people are any lower than white people. It does however say that Jews cannot marry non-Jews. If you were to convert to Judaism, according to halacha (Jewish law) there would be absolutely no problem with you marrying her.

Secondly. There were about 11 Jewish slaveowners out of all of them--all but one left and became Xian anyways. It was actually the Jews who tried to end slavery. Who founded the NAACP? W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, and Henry Moskowitz--a Jew. Jewish organizations were also the first ones to step up to support Martin Luther King and it was a Jewish organization to put pressure on the governor of Alabama to push for integration.

Even today, it's Jewish organizations that are the forerunners of the fundraising for Darfur and many other causes to help "the black race."

For you to say those things about Jewish people you are being just as bigoted as her parents are.

Answer 4

From a Biblical stand point, if you are not Jewish, then yes it is wrong. This goes for Christians as well. You should not yoke yourself to a non-believer. Color should never play in to it.

The Jews are already a "forsaken" race by God. They have always had trouble with inter marriages and it led to their down fall. They have also been considered the lowest form of life on Earth (more than a few times) so they have no room to cast stones.
If my child brought home a black person whose mannerisms were like most I have met from Africa I could let it go, but if they were like most I know from America I would have trouble with it as mannerisms, ethics, viewpoints and speech are skewed. But, as long as they were 18 they can date whom they will especially if they are moving out.

Answer 5

Nothing is wrong if people marry in different race and religion. All humans are children one man and one woman Adam and Eve. The key is that they should be believing in same religion. Most of the marriges between different races, cultures and religions fail and divorce rate is much higher amongst them as compared to if they marry within their race and religion.

I hope this helps you both. May God provide right circumstancs to survive your marriage if you decide to get married. May God guide you to make the right decision.

The love in the mind of girl and boy slowly wears out with the difficulties they face from parents of each others, from siblings and hardship of living under such pressures of cultures etc. Such marriage can survive only if they both have strong faith in same religion but also have close to equal education and they are broad minded people with ability to stand against all these odds. If husband is highly educated and brings enough money to support his wife and children and wife doesn't have to work. Then it can work.
If wife has to go to work to survive, then problems will start becuase she meets new people at work place and people start putting ideas in their minds. If husband looses job sooner wife feels she made a mistake and files for divorce.

God wants the people of different races marry between them. I saw one couple a Black husband and white wife. They both were ordinary looking. But when I saw their two sons, I kept looking and praising God how beautiful children God created with the mix of two totally opposit races. The boys were extremely beautiful. I wish that because of those children parens will remain together for ever. I saw them on a high way rest area and kept looking at them till I was there may be 125-20 minutes.

Answer 6

There are racists everywhere. Racism and hatred are tenets of some faiths, but not Judaism or Christianity; these people are racists in spite of being Jewish, not because of it.

If she loves you, and is willing to put up with her family's condemnation for that love, you have found a love that is certainly worth finding! Good luck!

Answer 7

Her father is a jerk, that's what's wrong with it. Her love of you is a sign she wants a bigger world that the stifling and closed minded social circle her friends inhabit and she was likely herded into.

Jews have a history of trading anything valuable. It's born from earlier racism restricting jews from becoming landowners in pre-renaissance Europe. Their best option for success was as traveling salesmen and bankers for cloth, spices and when the colonial economy hit a certain grisly juncture, other people. Don't let bitterness add another link in this ugly historical chain. Fight for her with peace, love and goodness in your heart, with a mind full of purpose and unclouded by hate.

Also, her dad is ignorant that there are a number of Jewish and semi-Jewish enclaves in Africa. They worship Yahweh, abstain from pork and all that stuff but with skin as rich and dark as chocolate cake.

read up on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_and_Judaism_in_Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemba

Answer 8

i'm sorry this label has been placed on you this way. no, most jews do not hate blacks, and i don't think you should give up on love because her parents are racist. i've never heard of jewish parents teaching their children that blacks, etc are "less", and i hope it never happens again. no, this is not part of the jewish faith; this is one racist family.

Answer 9

Baby boy, only if you and she are old enough to handle yourselfs. If you are in the position where you will at some time or another have her calling home for bill money, No! As far as God, first is she going to convert? All blood is red, you do not have mud blood. Her people are racist, so you choose wisely what you put yourself in the middle of.

Answer 10

if you love her, go for it.

it says in the new testament "and they shall leave their parents, and become one flesh."

the ethnic diversity that you two have will probably make things difficult, but marriage in general is difficult.

what their ancestors did to the black race means nothing for the here and now- each man is accountable for his own sins.

good luck, either way.

Answer 11

Tough choices. But I would say that if you really love her and she feels the same, then don't let anything stop you. Yes, it is important to have the family bond, but it's also important to have family support! If they don't want to support it, they don't want to support their daughter. Don't let racism pull the rug out from under you.