On IR Dating - Racialicious Blog

[TreePixie]

This is from a panel discussion, apparently part 1 of an intended 3 part series.

Too much to cut and paste here, because the discussion in comments is also interesting. I thought some of you would find this of interest

Deals with not only culture, class, education etc in IR dating which have been much in discussion on the forum of late:
On Interracial Dating

 

[The Dark King]

All bw not interested

 

[TreePixie]

All bw not interested

It appeared there was at least one BM on the panel.

 

[The Dark King]

It appeared there was at least one BM on the panel.

And like 8 black women. I wish there were ww on the panel. I wish more non trailer park trash ww would speak about their experience

 

[TreePixie]

And like 8 black women. I wish there were ww on the panel. I wish more non trailer park trash ww would speak about their experience

Since this one was titled "The Black Panel" I suspect there will be a follow up with WW on the next panel. If there is, I'll post a link.

I found the discussion of the impact of socio-economic class on IR interesting in this piece.

 

[jaisee]

I started reading, then I saw a lot more words so I stopped.

 

[TreePixie]

I started reading, then I saw a lot more words so I stopped.

Words are so confusing, huh?

 

[jaisee]

Words are so confusing, huh?

There's just so many of them.... and no pictures.

 

[TreePixie]

There's just so many of them.... and no pictures.

There, there, Jaisee. It's ok. You can hit the men's locker room and look at eye candy instead. Just wipe the drool off your chin occasionally so you don't get a rash ;-)

 

[jaisee]

I hardly ever go in the mens locker room.

 

[botoan]

It appeared there was at least one BM on the panel.

At least? No just one.

Cast: Boxer, wife, cop, the black guy

Characters: Bob Smith, Mary Taylor, the black guy

Personality traits:Conscientious,reserved, the black guy

Views: radical, progressive, the black guy

Individual: Independent, spiritual, the black guy


Pass

 

[karmacoma.]

Boring. Mostly BW. Sorry, Pixie.

 

[Mikey]

I think certain looks and types can date out a lot more easily than others.

What do you all think?

 

[pettyofficerj]

And like 8 black women. I wish there were ww on the panel. I wish more non trailer park trash ww would speak about their experience

my momma lived in a trailer

 

[goodlove]

the make up seems to be 1 or 2 ww , a couple of BM and a lot of BW. no time to read now . will do it later.

 

[TreePixie]

From another piece of this discussion I found this fascinating, as it's the exact opposite of what many WW/BM feel about how their relationship is viewed.

This was a BW speaking
Many of my Black male friends would make jokes that my college campus was an “elephant’s graveyard” because there were so many Black women with White men. What they meant was White men on my campus were taking the Black women that no one else wanted. To be seen with a White man in their eyes was to accept that Black men had given up on you and you just had to scavenge for what ever you could find. I always felt there’s a bit of true feelings in jest.

I’ve always felt the perception was a Black man was with a non-Black woman because she desired him so, a Black woman was with a non-Black man because she was desperate.

Here's the link if you're interested - same panel Interracial Dating Panel Part 2