My essay at The Root: "New Interracial-Dating Book Hurts More Than It Helps"
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Please check out and pass on/like it on Facebook (if you like it) my first piece for The Root, "New Interracial-Dating Book Hurts More Than It Helps" on JC Davies' book I Got The Fever. "Whitey" was but one word she used that I don't think I've ever heard someone say before. The very idea that, as white women, we should "broaden our horizons" when it comes to dating assumes that we're only looking for white men to date in the first place. The way Davies positions the groups she profiles, practically pimping them out, suggests that dating outside of our race (or religion) makes us somehow edgy or avant-garde. I'd venture, instead, that if we choose to do so, it makes us human, not in an "I don't see color" kind of way (could there be a more stupid phrase when it comes to race?), but in the sense that we don't limit ourselves to dating one type of person. Read the whole thing.

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  • Jennifer O.

    Great article.

     

    The town I live in has a lot of interracial couples, which is suprising considering it's a pretty racist town. One of the bedrocks of the KKK is only twenty or so miles away. I hope it doesn't sound condescending or anything, but I always marvel at how they're able to withstand the public stares, loudly whispered comments, or parents who don't let their kids go over to play. My daughter's basketball coack is a black man married to a white woman. I applaud them. Marriage is tough enough as it is, without having to deal with outside pressure and prejudiced morons. I don't think they needed a guide book. As you point out, no one wants to be tokenized. People are just people.