My mother is a Jewish white girl from Delaware and my father came to the U.S. from Hong Kong as an immigrant med student. In the south, in the 70’s, when my mother tried to sign a credit card slip as “Mrs. Chan,” it got her arrested for fraud. No one would believe she was married to a Chinese man, and when she was out for a stroll with her Asian-featured babies, strangers at the mall always asked where she got us. After 20+ years of marriage, theirs recently ended in divorce.
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I have three copies of Karyn L.anghorne Folan’s book Don’t Bring Home a White Boy (read my glowing review here) to give out to three lucky winners! I’ll be giving out copies of the book in three different ways, so you have three chances to win one!
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I’m a black, Muslim man dating a white, Jewish guy. Yes, I’m in an interracial relationship, but as a general principle I’m against them.
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Guest Post by Motivated Sista I’m open to dating interracially simply because I can. I’m not trying to be facetious. Even though I went to an HBCU for undergrad, I was never a woman who thought I should only date men from my own race. I just assumed, erroneously, that men of other races weren’t [...]
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So I still find it strange when I hear that people seek out a dream partner of a certain race, a certain religious background, a certain culture. If I’ve learned anything from falling in love with someone who is as mixed up as I am, it’s that you can find commonality across all facets of identity.
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Tonight a big group of my friends and I went to go see Tyler Perry’s latest masterpiece I Can Do Bad All By Myself. Now I had absolutely no idea what the movie was about. I knew it would involve a crackhead, fatherless children, passionate preaching, a love story, and some crazy antics of Madea [...]
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