I didn't call them nerds, "Geeky dreamboats" did. And girls must be swooning over Keenan, cause he's in the book, and it's for swooning. Also, a few ladies here listed him in the oddly hot thread.
Anyhoo, my husband's entire circle of friends are Black Men who are profoundly geeky, and they all get girls okay. Admittedly, they are self assured and confident, but they can also carry on a 6-hour conversation about the comparative quality of theme music between different eras of Star Trek**, so it's hard to say they don't qualify as nerds.
**of course, so can I.