After my last post one of my readers wanted me to answer the question "WHY DO AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN GET UPSET WHEN THEY SEE A BLACK MAN WITH A WOMEN OF ANOTHER RACE? For me that was a hard question to answer because I honestly could careless about race. Relationships for me are about so much more attraction, connection, bond, personalities, race seems to be last on the totem pole. So I turned to my followers on Twitter (www.twitter.com/leahjanell FOLLOW ME SHAMELESS PLUG)to get their opinion. One young lady said "IT ONLY BOTHERS ME IF THE MALE HAS BRAIDS OR DREAD LOCKS, OR IF HE IS REALLY DARK SKINNED" Now when she said that I assumed it was because most individuals with dreads are more culturally aware IDK. But when I asked her why she replied because its not like a white woman would be able to twist their locks, or braid their hair, I found that hilarious... I think most African American women look at successful black men who date women of other nationalities as cop outs. But personally I have always wanted to date a man like my father dark skin, great smile, amazing personality, so when I see an interracial couple it makes me wonder why did he stray away from what his mom was like, why wouldn't he want to date a women that reminds him of his mother... Interracial dating can lead to so many questions but at the end of the day its to each is own, whatever makes you happy...
Leah Janell: In My Shoes
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I'm the child of interracial dating. When I was younger I always wanted to date a black guy when I grew up as I grew older it changed to white guys until finally I decided on other mixed guys. It wasn't until I was eighteen that I learned to love color blind. It never made sense to me why people would want to date interracial. If you end up having kids they don't know exactly what they should be. So they spend much of their childhoods wondering what in the world they are. Having to listen to kids who don't quite understand and worst of all the kids who want you to pick one race over the other. I still thinks it's beautiful though, the mixing of cultures and races.
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