More Black Women Marrying Men of Other Races, Census Reveals

www.foxnews.com ^ | Sunday, August 05, 2007 | AP

[Leatherneck_MT]

RICHMOND, Va. — For years, Toinetta Jones played the dating game by her mom's strict rule. "Mom always told me, 'Don't you ever bring a white man home,'" recalled Jones, echoing an edict issued by many Southern, black mothers. But at 37, the Alexandria divorcee has shifted to dating "anyone who asks me out," regardless of race.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

This really isn’t related to the topic but that never stopped me before.

Only once in my life have I ever seen a woman who was 6 ft plus, date/marry/love a guy lets say less than average height which is now 5ft 10 in regardless of race. (I don’t think that the census bureau keeps this kind of statistics.)

I have posed this question to some women and they say that race is unimportant but the height restriction cannot be overcome. Women tell me I just don’t understand — but I think I do.

[Popman]

"I don't sit around dreaming about the perfect black man I'm going to marry," Jones said.

That's a serious problem honey, the perfect black man doesn't exist.

The only perfect mortal man as far as I know is already married, just ask my wife !!!

[M Kehoe]

I got mine 24 years ago.

5.56mm

[xsmommy]

i live in the NoVA suburbs of DC and off the top of my head i can think of three couples of my aquaintance, where the wife is black and the husband is white, all of them are professionals. i think it is more common and more accepted in urban areas maybe than in smaller towns and cities. On the same subject i recommend the movie Guess Who with Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher. it is dang funny!~

[Mr. Jeeves]

But at 37, the Alexandria divorcee has shifted to dating "anyone who asks me out," regardless of race.

Very many 37-year-old women find themselves forced to make the same decision...regardless of their race. ;)

[Enterprise]

"To a certain degree, black people are sick of each other," Alexander said."

Paging Oprah, paging Oprah Winfrey!

[Enterprise]

For some, they argue, white wives are the ultimate status symbol.

"They don't want a dark chocolate sister laying around their swimming pool," Moore said.

Have at it? No way! I ain't steppin in to THIS! NO WAY! I ain't sayin nuffin!

[csvset]

She said modern black women agonize over breaking male-female bonds forged in slavery and strengthened through the Jim Crow era.

Please. There certainly aren't any women who were slaves, and I doubt if any women from the Jim Crow era are dating,unless it's at the Senior Citizen Center on Bingo Night.

[Lee'sGhost]

Liar! Blacks can’t be racist. Didn’t you get the memo? They don’t have power and therefore cannot be racist. Apparently, “not having power” cancels out human traits on a random basis. Sort of like magic. Thus, the magic negros.

It all makes sense now, doesn’t it.

[Calvin Locke]

I thought you would have brought up a Chang[stein] capture.

[sushiman]

” Black women around the country also are reconsidering deep-seated reservations toward interracial relationships “

Figures this trend would start AFTER I was already married ...:(

Seriously , I used to work for a company that employed a lot of black women . Before working there I’d never really thought about dating a black woman , but after being around these beautiful babes on a daily basis I found myself becoming more and more attracted to them , and sometimes vice versa . But the black men who worked always busted my balls , or had words with the women , and I just grew tired of the fight .

[Hatter6]

If a white person had said that, it would be classed as racism. When black people say it, it is ethnocentrism.

[Popman]

She said modern black women agonize over breaking male-female bonds forged in slavery and strengthened through the Jim Crow era.

Speaking strictly as a white male, I find that statement ludicrous. Slavery was abolished four generations ago !

"It may be even more of an issue for educated black women who have a sense of the historical realities of this country, where black women often were abused at the hands of white men," Craig-Henderson said.

Ditto to my first statement

[mtbopfuyn]

She reflects many black women frustrated as the field of marriageable black men narrows: They're nearly seven times more likely to be incarcerated than white men and more than twice as likely to be unemployed.

And in 2007 that has to do with slavery how?

[P.O.E.]

Anthony & Cleopatra?

[freekitty]

The thing I liked about this article is this woman seems to be thinking outside the box and hopefully is beginning to see people for who they are rather than their skin color.

And I don’t like tatoos. They are dirty and ugly. I saw a young woman lawyer once. She was beautifully dressed and seemed altogether from head to toe. Then I spotted what appeared to be a barbed wire tatoo encircling one of her ankles. It ruined the entire perception.

[Lee'sGhost]

“Don’t you ever bring a white man home,’” recalled Jones, echoing an edict issued by many Southern, black mothers.”

And of course, NORTHERN black mothers, being the essence of sophistication, enlightenment, and open mindedness, continue urging THEIR daughters to actually seek out a relationship with white men as a status symbol, just as black men do with white women.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Cleopatra was the great grand daughter of Alexander’s general Ptolemy.

She was a Gallatian, from Macedonia, known today as Irish.

[csvset]

The number of women , ( both black and white ) that sport tattoos surprises me.

[5Madman2]

:)