Is love becoming color blind?

Ebony, May, 2007 by Chad Wozniak, Eric J. McCauley

Regarding the article, "Is Love Becoming Color Blind?" (March 2007), it's long overdue, and it's not just for the younger generation! Mabeleen, 62 (Black), and I, 59 (White), celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary on the second day of March by staying, as we have done on every anniversary, in the same picturesque hotel room in California's Mother Lode country, where we spent our wedding night in 1991. We had connected through a personal ad and communicated for two months by phone and letter before meeting, and we were already in love when we did meet. And I certainly wasn't disappointed when we met. Mabeleen was, and is, as gorgeous a beauty as she is a person.

As for other people's reactions, we simply ignore those who don't accept us and, as Mabeleen says, "keep movin'."

Chad Wozniak

Chico, Calif.

I am a 30-year-old Black male, and I am with a White woman. I chose a White woman because, in the past, I tried to date Black women and they preferred the gangster-thug type, and gave me a hard time. In high school, I was called an Uncle Tom because I had the sense to dress and talk with class.

Some Black women won't give a decent Brother like me a chance. I got tired of waiting.

Eric J. McCauley

Nashville, Tenn.