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Interracial Dating


August 09, 2007 | Tags: none

Alongside hip-hop, my moms and sneakers, I have an affinity towards women just as the next red-blooded hetero male. Being a part-time hippie though, I find myself more or less attracted to those who have that certain “aura” around them, whether they have the shape of, say, Roxy Reynolds, or if they remind me of any one of those nutrags from Charm School.

When I got to college, I ended up around a shitload of what people refer to as the “conscious crowd,” due to their tendency to rock camouflage clothing and protest their need for social change, as well as their inherent hatred for cracka-ass crackas. While I shared some of their ideals, I realized I could truly never be like some of my pseudo-revolutionary counterparts because a) I never bought into that shtick, since most of them simply used it as a means to get ass and b) I found myself slightly turned on by the YT contingent on the women’s volleyball team on my campus, as many of them were PAWGs.

Ever since I left that cocoon of college and entered the bullshit “real world,” I’ve found that a lot people in my demographic tend to date outside of their race. While I have no qualms in regards to ethnicity, I’ve noticed that Black women tend to only jump to white guys when dating interracially.

I’ve always found this particular conundrum intriguing: perhaps swayed by the stories of hot-blooded Latinos smacking the flames out of their girl's asses Big Pun-style, or the rumor that some guys gravitate towards Asian women because due to their pancake—like shapes they can secretly live out a gay lifestyle without the actual “gay” part per se (which is just wrong on so many levels), they’ll jump to some lumberjack White guy whose slave-owning ancestors quite possibly gang-raped their own great-great-great grandparents. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course...

It’s not to say that men won’t date a White woman. But it doesn’t make sense to me when they’re chastised for doing so, as if they’ve turned their back on the entire Black race. On the other hand, men don’t really give a shit if women do the same. Case in point: throughout Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever, Flipper Purify (which is probably the dopest name of all time) character was ostracized, embarrassed and royally fucked over throughout the film by Black women, yet on the other hand, Sanaa Lathan’s character in Something New never faced that cold shoulder. Um, double-standard, anyone?

The interesting thing about this is that interracial dating is really not a huge thing in hip-hop. Sure, you may see the average paleface video slore, but it was interesting (yet unsurprising) to see the somewhat negative reaction Polow Da Don got when he dubbed himself the “King Of The White Girls.” I figure that the whole thing attributes to the false fact that hanging around a White person not named Marshall Mathers may diminish street cred, but in case you haven’t noticed, YTs are known for keeping shit gully every now and then.

In the end though, it shouldn’t matter whom we all decide to date, as love knows no color. And while I’ve never really tested those waters, I wouldn’t be surprised if I ended up bedding a cola bottle-shaped White chick, but only if I don’t end up getting Effed In The Ay like this guy.




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