Dallas Fort-Worth A Good Place for Interracial Couples & Families ?

I ran across an article about the increasing rate of interracial families who are living rather comfortably in the Dallas Fort-Worth area.  Below is an excerpt I found interesting, but you can read the article in its entirety HERE.

'Do you know what you’re getting into?’ Texas Wesleyan University law professor Jason Gillmer began dating his wife, Kristene, in 1989, when both were students at a small college in Minnesota. It quickly became obvious they were a good match, sharing interests and aspirations. Then it came time for Jason, who’s white, to introduce his African-American girlfriend to his parents in Minneapolis. "We both came from very open-minded families, and so my parents openly embraced my wife," Jason said. "But they also sat me down and said, 'Do you know what you’re getting into?’ They gave me the talk that society was going to look at us differently. They were aware of the racial discrimination in the country, and they wanted to make sure both of us understood the significance of being an interracial couple." Things became particularly unpleasant in 1991 after the release of Spike Lee’s movie Jungle Fever, the story of how friends and family react when a black man dates a white woman. As Jason and Kristene walked down the street, passers-by, most of them black, would start singing the movie’s theme song. "That was often a precursor of something more to follow, a comment or a threat," Jason said. "Whites in Minneapolis, if they thought anything negative, had enough sense not to say anything." The Gillmers married in 1993 and now have two children. They lived on both coasts before moving to Fort Worth in 2003, and they feel very comfortable here. "We don’t have comments anymore," said Jason, whose wife teaches elementary school in Fort Worth. "Here we are in a Southern city, or at least in a Texas city, and we are very comfortable with where we live. "I think we’re still unique, but we’re not singled out for negative treatment at all. I’m not sure you could say that about all parts of Texas, but in a large city like the Dallas-Fort Worth area, it’s a pretty comfortable place to be." Aaron and Dana Gresky have also found that mostly true. On a fateful spring day six years ago, Aaron happened across his wife-to-be in a Fort Worth grocery store, summoned his nerve and asked for her telephone number. In two years, they were married. "Everything just worked," said Aaron, 37, an assistant administrator at a Fort Worth healthcare facility. "She was attractive. Intelligent. Everything about her I was attracted to." The fact that he was white and she was black was not even briefly part of the emotional calculus, the couple say now. And they are scarcely isolated today. The Greskys’ closest friends are a handful of interracial couples — black and white, Hispanic and white, Asian and white — a group that jokingly refers to itself as the "swirl club." But they’ve also had to endure the double takes in public, so they avoid restaurants and areas of Fort Worth where they feel less than welcome. "We’ll go places, and people will stare," Aaron said. "It’s very obvious when you walk into a room. It will be a little bit longer of a glance, little bit longer of a look." Dana remembered one particularly uncomfortable encounter with a black man outside a downtown Fort Worth restaurant. "It was just kind of an inappropriate way to look at a woman," she said. "I’ve heard things like, 'Whenever you’re ready to come back.’ That sort of thing. Some random guy will walk past and say something like that."

Hhhmm...I find it very *interesting* with whom the BW/WM couples had the most "trouble".