One of my favorite events I ever went to at BYU was a speech by WInston Wilkinson. At the time he was a part time faculty member at BYU in the law school and a member of the Salt Lake County Council. Wilkinson is an African-American man. He gave an overview of his life. One of the more interesting things he said was that when his generation died off we would see high rates of inter-racial marriage.

I think his general thoughts on the matter were postive, but have to admit that I still think he was unrealistically hopeful. Although since Wilkinson was born in 1944, and as far as I can tell still alive, maybe I am too quick to say his optism was too soon. The fact that in 2010 0.7% of married white men in the US had black wives My very limited and not at all broad perspective on changes since then suggests that the figure is probably higher today, although not as much as one would wish.