*Author's note: This is my first story, apologies if it's a bit clunky! Any feedback (criticism, ideas) is welcome!*
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To a certain point, Craig's life had been simple and straightforward. And it was going pretty well like that. As a young man, he learned the value of hard work from his father and the importance of love from his mother. Yes, he fooled around and got into a fair amount of trouble in his youth, but he was disciplined whenever it mattered. He helped his parents out whenever they needed him, excelled in school, found a lot of friends and, most importantly, after months of thinking about the right way to do it, he asked out that one shy girl from his class that stole his heart.
Linda, his high school sweetheart, would become his wife soon after they graduated. They were a dream couple, went to college together, scored well-paying jobs, and were able to buy a nice big house with space for a couple new family members. Space that they soon filled.
They were the happiest family in the world, blessed with three beautiful children: Their eldest daughter Victoria, their second daughter Laurel two years later, and, after six more years, their youngest son Brad. They had everything they ever wanted. And all that Craig wished for was to grow old at Linda's side and raise his children the same way his parents raised him, with love and care, and to see them grow up to make him proud.
Chapter 1: Linda
"Oh, wow." Linda's murmur was of an ominous intensity.
Craig and Linda, both in their mid-30s, were sitting in their garden and enjoying the warmth of the summer evening, as well as the calm after the kids all went to bed. Craig had his eyes closed and let the sun massage his skin. But Linda, to whom 'de-stressing' was a foreign concept, just couldn't let go completely and, instead of relaxing in the evening sun, used the time to read news on her phone.
"Hmm, what's up?" Craig asked, opening his eyes.
"Oh, nothing, really..." Linda replied unusually shy.
"Come on, babe, you can't just say 'wow' and then not fill me in."
"I guess... But I don't even know why this popped up in the first place."
Craig moved over to Linda's deck chair and knelt beside it so that she could show him the article published in her favorite feminist magazine. It was something about racial relations. He needed a while to realize what he was looking at: Statistics about interracial sex.
No wonder Linda had been so shy about this, the article got quite touchy. And the featured numbers were extreme.
The bulk of the article was a representative questionnaire for white women, asking about their opinions on sex with black men.
30% of them stated to have had sex with a black man once in their life, 40% were strongly considering it for the near future, only 5% said that they would never want to try it.
82% believed that black men had larger penises than white men, 75% that they would last longer in bed, 84% believed they were more potent, 67% believed that black men were the better lovers.
40% agreed that "white women have a historical obligation to offer their bodies to black men", 52% agreed that "women who have sex with black men are less likely to have sex with white men ever again".
60% agreed that "having a black man's baby would be the best way to ensure the survival of my genes".
All these numbers were compared to the far lower results for these questions asked ten years ago. And, the younger the asked women were, the higher the results. 55% of women under 25 had had sex with black men.
Then there was a birth statistic.
Over the last century, white-on-white pregnancies dropped by 20%, black-on-white pregnancies rose by 40%. And both of these graphs looked like they were just getting started.
The author concluded: Ten years from now, every white woman under 25 would have had sex with a black man at least once. Of those, 80% would become pregnant with mixed babies.
Craig gulped. Ten years from now, that was when Victoria would turn 25.
Not that it would bother him if his daughter brought home a black guy or anything, he wasn't a racist. It was just that he would prefer to not think that way about her at all, she was his own daughter after all. But this article brought images to his mind that he didn't want to see.
"What a bunch of weird questions... who asks stuff like this?" Craig complained.
"You think these numbers are real?" Linda replied, biting her lower lip.