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Marriage, children, and the University can be the perfect triangle when a person lives his By Cliff Williams Chronicle Staff "I'm black and she's white which makes our marriage a sin according ac-cording to society's color codes on interracial marriage, although I only see Diana (my wife) as a person I love and not as an object that is black or white," said James Ward, a University student. James, who has been married for three years, met his wife on an airplane on their way back from San Francisco. They settled in Salt Lake to live a happily married life only to find that problems here are much more complicated than anywhere else for interracial couples. On the average of two to three a day, interracial marriages are increasing, especially with the young set. Of Salt Lake's 72 in-terracially in-terracially married couples, (blackwhite) six of the couples are students at the University of Utah. For Mr. and Mrs. Ward, University life and marriage is beautiful except when they are encountered by someone who reminds them that he's black and she's white. "I married Jim, not for his money or what he had to offer me, but because I loved him," said Mrs. Ward. "I've never had a chance to look at his skin color because I was more interested in his personality per-sonality and character and how much he loved me," she noted. The various slogans that our racist society quotes are: "you'll have a us, but a great majority of our other friends see us as Steve and Jan and not as an interracially married couple," said Steve Lansing, a Salt Lake resident. Steve, a black and Jan, white, enjoy their married life with their 2-year old baby girl. Their real friends are part of that life also because it's their close friends that make their marriage easier living. "... Most people think you've committed a crime because they don't look at it as two people in love. . ." "We use to receive the usual threat calls and a couple of broken windows from the local bigot clubs, but I feel that immaturity im-maturity is dying out becase people are realizing that love is free and a person has his right to express it to anyone whether society likes it or not," commented com-mented Steve. Mr. and Mrs. Lansing who met 4 years ago, decided not to marry until both' had completed school, but their freedom to love came first. "When couples marry someone out of their race, most people think you've committed a crime because they don't look at it as two people in love and want to to share their lives together," said Larry Mallard, a University student. Larry, and his wife, a Japanese, have been married for 1-12 years and haven't had too many problems because they are interracially in-terracially mixed. "I love our marriage and the reason that we are married," said Mrs. Mallard, "is simply that we love each other." All interracially married couple are not black male and white female. Many mixed couples are vice versa such as Mr. and Mrs. David Blanche who have been married for 2 years. Some of David's friends have looked down on him because he married someone he really loved instead of someone he should be loving. But Marsha, his wife, was plunged into a worse situation with her friends because she had married someone white. "We have our ups and downs," noted Dave, but we still see each other aas equals and not as a black and white. "The only strain in our marriage was that my University funds were cut off from my parents when I told them I was going to marry a black woman. Friends are important to us, but if they dislike the way we express ourselves, it's their problem, not ours," he added. "Surprisingly enough, our marriage has been one of personal per-sonal misunderstandings rather than racial problems, said Robert Wheeler, a Salt Lake resident. "My wife Linda, who is an Indian, never hears any comments on being married to a black man," he added. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, University students who have been married " You'll have a sad and depressing depress-ing life... you won't be accepted ac-cepted or loved by society. . ." sad and depressing life," "you won't be accepted or loved by society," "people will shun and ridicule you all your life." People don't want to accept the fact that couples interracially marrying now are a part of society and that they will be the ones in the future to decide whether they will be accepted or not. "Ever since my wife and I were married, a few of our friends have become less and less sociable as if not wanting to associate with |