For centuries, one of the great fears from racists was the specter of interracial relationships.

Racists in the post-Civil War era worked strenuously to enshrine anti-misagination laws.

The 1921 Constitution and laws of the KKK, for example, called for adherence to, quote, avowed the distinction between the races.

The infamously racist birth of a nation was based on the fear of rape of white women by black men.

Modern era KKK flyers complain about the ultimate abomination, miscegenation, which decrees the

death of a race. Race mixing is against God's law. This sort of disgusting propaganda has, thank

God, fallen out of common fashion. Except on the left. Today, over at Jezebel, this headline

actually ran. This is a direct quote.

Quote, I'm tired of watching brown men fall in love with white women on screen.

This is pretty incredible stuff. Why in the world would it be so terrible for a person with one skin color to fall in love with a person of a different skin color?

In fact, the left has been generating trumped-up headlines about supposed conservative objections to Cheerios commercials

and Old Navy commercials and State Farm commercials involving interracial relationships. The left can't

come up with any legit sources who actually object to these commercials, so instead they find

random Twitter followers and then build a story out of them. But Jezebel is a relatively mainstream left

outlet. There, Adi, Natasha Keeney writes, quote, The Big Sick, which is a new show, has been roundly lauded in the press lately, including here at Jezebel and not without good reason. It's a funny, heartwarming love story based on the true life experiences of co-writers' married couple, Kumal Nanjiani, and Emily Gordon. But as much as I liked it, and I did, I also found myself exhausted

yet again by the on-screen depiction of a brown man wanting to date a white woman while brown

women are portrayed alternatively as caricatures, stereotypes, inconsequential, and or the

butts of a joke. So the story is actually based on a true real-life relationship, but it's

still annoying to this lady. That's because even using a white woman as a romantic real-life relationship, but it's still annoying to this lady.

That's because even using a white woman as a romantic lead means, quote, in the complex

hierarchy of power and race in America, paying, quote, lip service to the one notion that has shaped

the history of South Asian and American culture alike, whiteness as the ultimate desire,

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