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This is Ebody and X and this this is the Candiname Frame.

Race has been a topic of conversation a lot in the past year,

and in a political season, much of the discussion can be polluted by a lot of misinformation, posturing, and blaming. Any healthy conversation that can be

had about such issues quickly devolved into issues of us and them, right and wrong. And it's

easy to forget that ultimately it's about people. Men and women who are trying to achieve

better lives for themselves and for their children.

We are not so different as the pundits would make us believe we are.

Such issues are particularly a personal one for couples who choose to cross the color line when it comes to love.

And those couples are the subject of today's guest photographer Donna Pinkley.

Her project Sticks and Stones is a portrait series in which she photographs interracial couples

and the negative comments that they have been subject to because of their relationship.

These hateful comments are written on the bottom of each print and show some people at their

worst.

But the images also demonstrate people for whom love allows them to rise above such hate

in intolerance.

It's heartening to see people who don't allow other people's ignorance or hatred to deter them from finding love and happiness.

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