Interracial Dating

He's got jungle fever....she's got jungle fever....they've got jungle fever...they're in love! (I had to do it..sorry)

Interracial dating has been a hot button issue for some time now. I personally don't do it because I value black women too much to want anything else, but I understand that's just me. I was the only one out of all of my friends from college and high school just about who felt that way, and that will likely hold true the rest of my life. I just can't do it, nor do I want to. I won't knock those guys who choose to do it.

What I will knock is their reasoning. Sure, sometimes you can run into some trouble dating black women, but rarely does it ever have to do with them simply being black. No race of woman is superior by virtue of skin color, and having your white girl as a status symbol or trophy spits on the struggles our mothers and grandmothers made to raise us. Please stop it. You date white women because you want to, not because they're better than black women.

I read an article recently that suggests that black women are turning to white men and others as an alternative since there aren't black men available. If black men truly aren't available in enough numbers, I truly empathise. That's gotta be rough. I've heard all of the doomsday statistics about the state of black men and won't bother to repeat them, but in my heart, I know that all the news about us isn't bad. Keep believing in us. Please :).