Saturday, December 15, 2007

Black women dating white men?

When white women started dating black men alot the black women had a fit and were very rude to the couple... Their excuse was that white women were trying to steal their men?

When white women started dating black men, it was mostly white men who had a problem with it. Some black men were killed over this. Thankfully that sort of hateful reaction isn't common anymore.

Most black women today aren't going to care one way or the other who other people are dating. Those who do get angry when black men date white women are being unfair, but they do have better reason than you may think.

The reality of life in the US is that black people are a minority group, and there aren't that many eligible black men to begin with. Higher death rates and higher incarceration rates among black men remove a lot of guys from the dating pool. If every available black man in the US paired himself off with a single black woman, there wouldn't be enough black men to go around. So if black men date women of other races, some black women feel upset that this means there's even less of a chance for them to find a nice black boyfriend. It isn't very nice for these women to be mean to a white woman who is dating a black man, but it isn't totally irrational either.

As for black women dating white men, it's not that common. It certainly does happen, but less often than a black man dating a white woman. You can tell by looking at marriage statistics. Black men are about twice as likely to marry a white woman as a black woman is too marry a white man. This has been the case since the 1970s.

There are fewer statistics on dating available, but the American Demographics article I link to below says that 13% of black men who have a live-in girlfriend are dating white women. Only 4% of black women live with a white boyfriend.There are people who'd be upset if they knew a black woman who was dating a white man, but this situation doesn't come up as often as the other way around so you don't hear as much about it.

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