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Tamera Mowry Responds to Critics of Her Interracial Marriage ( x )

I’m not even going to lie, when I decided to come out this was something I was afraid of, because my wifey is white.  I was scared that I was going to get so much shit because, back home in Chicago, pretty much everyone I knew (family and friends) were black and I was so scared that they’d give me shit.  I like, mentally prepared myself for comments, I went in battle ready.  They didn’t say anything, which is great, but even being back home I always have this voice in the back of my head like, “You’re walking around with a white girl, someone is going to say something." 

Honestly, the big fallout with my dad, this was something he brought up to my mom.  I heard him in the basement talking to her (he didn’t know I could hear him) and he said something like, "Now she’s dating some white person.”  Which was such a hard slap to the face, ESPECIALLY since he has dated outside the race. His previous girlfriend was Mexican, but somehow I guess that was more o.k. than me dating a white girl.  Like somehow there’s levels to interracial, like since he had been with another minority it was somehow o.k. compared to me dating a white girl.  He not only had issue with her gender, but her race, and while I was expecting the gender issue I was NOT expecting the race issue.

We’ve patched things up since then, as my friends know (this was back in college), but I still will never forget how I felt when I heard him say that to my mom.