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Analysis of desire: Don’t Black men and Asian women desire one another?

Friday, January 20th, 2012
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Generally, Black men and Asian women are by far the two racial groups with the highest number of interracial marriages. And the reason for this (as racist, subjective and stereotypical as it may sound) is that Black men are perceived to be physically attractive by women of different races; and the same goes for Asian [...]

Robin Thicke’s take on Black women being urged to date White

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
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Coming from a White man who has been married for six years to a Black woman, actress Paula Patton, the same Black woman he has known and been with since high school for 18 years, the advice I expected from soul singer Robin Thicke on the media telling Black women that they will be better [...]

The Loving Story film set to air this Valentine’s on HBO

Thursday, January 5th, 2012
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It may have been a long time coming but its finally here… The documentary film about the infamous interracial couple (Richard and Mildred Loving), “The Loving Story”, is set to hit the airwaves on HBO this Valentine’s Day. With a blend of raw archival footage and exclusive interviews with the couple’s family members and Lawyers, [...]

Poll: Is dating another minority easier than dating white?

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
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Most interracial couples have had their fair share of problems just for being in interracial unions. But when looking at the problems, we find that most of the stories of these interracial couples are those of couples that involve a minority/ colored individual and a white spouse. Somehow, the picture one ends up getting is [...]

Is interracial marriage sheer arrogance to what God intended?

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
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When the former pastor of Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Kentucky (Melvin Thompson) passed a resolution to ban interracial couples from their church in the name of “promoting greater unity among the church body and the community”, I had to find out what he meant by that. And as much as not all of [...]

A Big Bet on Her Birthday…

Monday, December 12th, 2011
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Rich was coming off a relationship that didn’t go the distance, but it didn’t convince him to give up on love, either. “I had decided to come back into the dating world,” he says. “When I returned to the site and was looking at profiles, I ran across a picture of a woman…

Why the sudden preference in white women black men relationships once success kicks in?

Friday, November 18th, 2011
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Every woman despite race dreams of finding love. And the dream is to find a man who comes as a package deal: a great career with great income, his own home, attractive, loving and a man who is capable of taking care of his family. Sadly, in the black community, most such men are in [...]

White men black women dating:Is the choice to cross over an emotional struggle?

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
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When confronted by an irate reader’s closing remark “I can tell; you’re one of those women with a white boyfriend”, Sandy Banks says in a recent article in the LA Times: “I was pleased to be able to rally back: “My boyfriend is black.” Take that. But I was also grateful that her challenge hadn’t [...]

The Ultimate “Never Too Late for Love” Story

Friday, October 28th, 2011
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James and Geraldine had lived long lives—let’s just say both are eligible for senior-citizen discounts—but found themselves single and looking for love.  Loneliness drove Geraldine, a retired Texan, to join our site.  James, a farmer in Iowa, signed up because he saw that there were “a number of available women, and pretty ones!” Many couples [...]

Why do outsiders have a harder time dealing with mixed race identity than the individuals do?

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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I never believed such things happened until my sister told me furiously how some Chinese woman at the mall saw her pushing her mixed race baby on the pram (who looks white) and asked her if she was baby sitting. Ok! What made her livid was the suspicious look on that woman’s face. Its like [...]