CULTURE|RELATIONSHIPS
I Decided to Only Date Black Men for a While and Here’s What I Learned as a Result
I wonder how many people will correctly guess my reason why before reading my story
It was the summer of 2016 and I had never exclusively dated any particular race, aside from the human race, in the many years of dating that I had experienced up to that point.
Several years prior I had a friend, a Black woman, who was attracted to one of my white guy friends. He was very attracted to her as well but she would not date him because she only dated Black men. She felt strongly about only dating Black men for various reasons.
I found it quite odd.
As sexual, open, intelligent, and creative as this friend was, she refused to budge on this issue, aside from some kissing and touching with the dude I mentioned which was short-lived.
A few years later, one of my white male colleagues told me about a co-worker of ours to whom he was attracted. When he asked her out, she told him up front that she really liked him but nothing serious would ever become of them because he was white.
For some Black women, my friend for example, this aversion to white men in particular and a…
