Marriage of a convert: must he marry someone of the same race?
Question

                I would like to ask for your advice, I am a br. who prays believes in allah prays 5 times a day, fasts in ramadan  

and converted to islam over 5 years ago. I am looking to get married, however on meeting the sr. that I like, I am finding out that since her family is from another Race and because of this they will not accept me as her husband. 

She is a practising muslimah from an Indian/asian/pakistani/bengali type of background, and it is typical of people of these background never to let their children (especially girls) to marry outside their own cultures even if the one proposing is a practising muslim man. 

 Hence the mariage cannot take place on this basis alone. Since the majority of practising muslims in this country are from the indian subcontinent background,I have two questions 

1- how does a relative new-comer such as my self get married? 

2- Should reverts only marry reverts? Is there any basis for such cultural separation in islam? .
Praise be to Allah.
    With regard to the first question, and the second, as soon as 
    you entered Islam you became one of the Muslims, with the same rights and 
    duties as they have. Based on that, then you may strive to guard your 
    chastity by marrying any good and righteous woman, based on the words of the 
    Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) [regarding looking 
    for a wife], “Look for the one who is religiously-committed, may your hands 
    be rubbed with dust (i.e., may you prosper)!” 

    Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5090; Muslim, 1466) – whether she is 
    also new in Islam (i.e., a convert) or not. What matters is that she should 
    be righteous, as I mentioned. 

    Then if you propose marriage to a righteous woman, and she or 
    her family do not agree, then you must be patient and continue looking, 
    whilst also continuing to pray that Allaah will make it easy for you to find 
    a righteous woman who can help you to obey your Lord. 

    Secondly, with regard to the discrimination that you mention, 
    Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): 

    “O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, 
    and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily, 
    the most honourable of you with Allaah is that (believer) who has At-Taqwa 
    [i.e. he is one of the Muttaqoon (the pious]”

    [al-Hujuraat 49:13]
The Prophet  (peace 
    and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “O you who believe, verily your 
    Lord is One, and your father [Adam] is one. There is no superiority of an 
    Arab over a non-Arab or of a non-Arab over an Arab, or of a red man over a 
    black man or of a black man over a red man, except in terms of taqwa 
    (piety). Have I conveyed (the message)?” They said: “The Messenger of Allaah 
     (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) has conveyed (the 
    message).”

    (Narrated by Ahmad, 5/411; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in
    Ghaayat al-Maraam, 313; it was also narrated from Shaykh al-Islam Ibn 
    Taymiyah that its isnaad is saheeh, in al-Iqtidaa’, 69). 
According to another 
    hadeeth, the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: 
    “Those who boast about their forefathers should desist or they will be less 
    significant before Allaah than the beetle that rolls up the dung with its 
    nose. Allaah has taken away from you the arrogance of Jaahiliyyah and its 
    pride in forefathers, so a person is either a pious believer or a doomed 
    evildoer. All the people are the children of Adam and Adam was created from 
    dust.” (Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 3890; classed as hasan by al-Albaani in 
    Saheeh Sunan al-Tirmidhi, no. 3100; and in Ghaayat al-Maraam, 
    312, it was said that al-Tirmidhi and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah classed 
    it as saheeh). 

    The dung beetle is a black bug that rolls up excrement. 
Hence it should become 
    clear to you that Islam does not discriminate between one Muslim and another 
    by any earthly standards, whether that be colour, lineage, wealth or 
    country. Rather the only criterion by which people are regarded as superior 
    to others before Allaah is taqwa (piety, consciousness of Allaah). Indeed, 
    the sharee’ah commands the guardian of a woman, if a person comes to propose 
    marriage who is religiously-committed and of good character and attitude, to 
    hasten to arrange the marriage, and to beware of rejecting him and not 
    accepting him, as the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
    him) said: “If there comes to you one with whose religious commitment and 
    character you are pleased, then marry your daughter [or female relative 
    under your care] to him, for if you do not do that then there will be much 
    tribulation and mischief in the land.” They said, “O Messenger of Allaah, 
    what if there is some other objection?” He said, “If there comes to you one 
    with whose religious commitment and character you are pleased, then marry 
    your daughter [or female relative under your care] to him,” three times.

    Narrated by al-Tirmidhi; classed as hasan by al-Albaani in 
    Saheeh Sunan al-Tirmidhi, 866

    See the answer to question no.
    13993.

     We ask Allaah to make it easy for you to marry a woman who will help you to obey your Lord.

     And Allaah knows best.