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Regina King On Why Black Women Don’t Date Non-Blacks
Actress Regina King wrote a column for Vibe.com about why she thinks that Black women don’t date outside their race.
Here are some key excerpts:
When you have everyone else who is willing to explore but a Black woman is like, “I want me a brother,” well, if the brothers are out and they’re open to date everybody and the majority of Black women aren’t willing to look twice when a man outside of their race is sending them messages, then that makes our percentage rate lower and the chances of finding love, because we’re only looking in one specific place for finding love—with Black men.
I have about five Black friends who date outside of their race. But all the other friends of mine, it’s either they vocally say that they won’t or every time an opportunity comes up for them to date outside of their race, there’s some excuse why it’s not going to work.
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As far as I know, Ms. Regina is in a ‘blissfully happy’ relationship with Malcolm Jamal-Warner — unless something has changed. That’s why I find it curious that she’s coming out so strong on this issue. Maybe Ms. Regina is countering what Sister Jill Scott wrote in Essence magazine last month. Certainly, we can date whomever we want. But, there are many Sisters who are ready, willing, and able to wait for a good Black man. Hey, no one knows a Black woman better than a Black man. Many Sisters want to marry a Black man, raise a Black family, and continue the legacy. With that being said, if a man from another race came my way, and we were a great Team — I’m in! However, let’s keep in mind that there are many non-Black mothers who DO NOT want their sons with Black women, right?
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Based on educational evidence, there is only one human race with many different ethnic branches of that same one race tree. The notion of dating outside of your so called “race” is based on the flawed illogical ideology of white racial supremacy fabricated against people with melanin rich skin which is a natural God given suncreen. This was the basis for forced sevitude and subjugation of Natives to work for people whose skin burned in the sun esecially in hot territories like Africa, South America, and Southern United States. Once we as human beings recognize we are all human beings with equality, there will not be an issue.
Inequality remains the underlying problem with humanity which assumes if you choose to love or deal on with another human as an equal, somehow you are betraying your race. All one has to do is go to a white supremacist website an read what they think about dating any person of a different “race” (Black/Brown/African, Brown/Hispanic). It is sad that centuries of abuse and degraded thinking about our people/womenand men still remains.
Many of our women need to know their beautiful bodies are still looked on with lust that many men want to have “sex” with, but do not want to respect and marry. I have seen a beautiful Indian woman ravished for her “exotic” features (beautiful brown skin, thick lips and curves), but the so called white male kept putting off marrying her.
A woman should be able to date whoever she wants, but she should not give her love and body to any person who does not love her and embrace her or her people positively, for she will give birth to a child who will be labeled “Negroid/Black” no matter who she conceives from. She must love her self which means she must love her ethnic group. It is the same principle for men. Dating outside your ethnic group while bad mouthing your own people is self defeating. Dating out of spite to your own ethnic people is toxic to humanity in general. We all must love our human family and embrace the ethnic diversity our ancestral gene mutations gave birth to.