There’s nothing easy about interracial relationships to begin with. And not enough people are honest about it. It’s a new year! Which means it is time, yet again, for another terrible-ass take on interracial relationships. Too on the nose? Yeah, but you’d be a little annoyed too if literally everywhere you looked, someone else was...
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Dating and Black Womanhood: On The Bachelorette’s Rachel Lindsay and Interracial Love
When it comes to who Rachel Lindsay will choose in the end, it shouldn’t be about race. It should be about who she loves and has built a solid foundation with. By TIFFANIE WOODS Dating as a black woman is hard. Dating as the first black Bachelorette on national TV is down right terrifying....
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No, Interracial Love is Not “Saving America”
Upholding interracial marriage as proof that we have overcome racism reinforces the idea that racism is primarily about individual acts of prejudice, rather than about systemic (and collective) vulnerability to state violence. BY LISA HOFMANN-KURODA This year is the 50th anniversary of Loving vs. Virginia, the famous Supreme Court case that officially overturned state...
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Should We Care If #WokeBae is Creeping With Becky With The Good Hair?
Jesse Williams isn’t the first (and won’t be the last) Black man to date non-Black women. But that’s also not necessarily the point. by Cameron Glover Jesse Williams and the #WokeBae collective: it’s high time that we have a talk. Of course, Jesse Williams isn’t the first (and won’t be the last) Black man to...
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Saying “I’m Not Into Black Girls” Isn’t a Preference. It’s Racist.
Under white supremacy, black women can be lots of things — but they aren’t seen as dateable. Guess what? White people who believe this are racist. One of the timeless — but no less relevant and humanistic — cliches we issue to ourselves and others about dating and intimate companionship is that a person’s character, not their...
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You Don’t Get To Be An Authority On Blackness Just Because You Fuck Us
Whites fucking blacks didn’t stop slavery. A civil war did. Whites fucking blacks didn’t end Jim Crow. Exhausting court battles, boycotts, street demonstrations, “redemptive suffering,” and unmerciful death did. You know, the only thing more logically clumsy and offensive than the white person who defers to his or her one or two black friends...
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You Love Black Men’s Bodies But Do You Care About Their Lives?
So, you want to frame that picture of Mahershala but you didn’t care when Philando Castile was murdered in front of his family? You want to sleep with Trevante but you stayed silent when your friend said “all lives matter?” At this point, it’s almost impossible to have not heard of the Oscar-winning film Moonlight....
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Why It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If Kyrie Irving Threw A ‘White Girls Only’ Yacht Party
Twitter’s Reaction To A “White Girl Yacht Party” Is About Something Much Bigger Than Kyrie Irving https://twitter.com/BigNeechi/status/746406058436997120 Cleveland Cavaliers point guard and 2016 NBA champion Kyrie Irving threw a yacht party — high-end champagne, crisp blue water, bikinis, swim trunks, looped music, dancing. Whoopdiedoo, right? But, apparently, this wasn’t an ordinary yacht party, or...