Check out Tulane student Lauren Wethers’s fantastic blog response to Richard Cohen’s alarmingly racist comments on interracial marriage in the United States!

“People with conventional views must suppress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York – a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.” Ah. Alrighty. So I guess every time one of the millions of bi- and multi-racial people in the country walks by a person with ‘conventional’ views, people just start gagging all over the place. Let’s just ignore the facts that 86% of Americans support interracial marriage and that you have for some reason twisted ‘conventional’ to mean ‘insanely racist’. People that actually marry and reproduce outside of their race are just unnatural. How dare they marry for love and not take into consideration what their partner looks like! Children who can’t be easily categorized just make people sick!

Read the full piece here. You might want some ice for that burn, Mr. Cohen. Don’t forget to follow Lauren here for more awesome posts!