Posts Tagged ‘black women’

The successful black woman hits media again!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The glamorous independent woman – the successful black woman and her search for love has hit the news yet again! The whatTH time this year? We all know the stats – this glam squad makes up for 71 percent of black graduate students. And most of them are single. And when ABC’s Nightline decided to [...]

Beauty or breeding racism?

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Colorism has plagued this nation since God knows when. There is a common belief that light skin is beautiful, means more opportunities, better jobs, more respect, acknowledgement and better treatment from society. Some Black women bleach themselves so they can ‘beautiful’. Having looked up the word beautiful, there is no mention of ‘color’ in the [...]

More rumination on interracial relationships

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I was hanging out at my female friend’s place some time back and I couldn’t help but notice that every woman I met there (starting from her mum and aunt (who are Black) to my pal and her cousins (who are mixed race) were either in a relationship with or married to a White man. [...]

Black women have no option?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Warning: This post may be offensive to some readers. This is not the objective. The post is in no way meant to defame or inflame any parties, groups or persons. It is simply meant to find out what people think about black white dating. In a bid to explain why Black women get upset about [...]

Black men, marrying black, marrying white

Monday, February 9th, 2009

“Barack Obama is one of the few men that we have seen who is a black man who has a very, very dark-skinned wife. She’s very dark skinned for normally what you see. And I wondered to myself, would he be electable if he had a white wife?” – Whoopi Goldberg confessed to having been [...]

Interracial dating or vengeance?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Warning: The article below may be offensive to some readers. This is not the objective. The article is in no way meant to defame or inflame any parties, groups or persons. It is simply meant to find out why people make the choices they make when it comes to interracial dating. A visitor to John [...]