If cultural compatibility and values were so important to these women, you'd think that they'd place more value on marrying within their ethnicity or race.

Can't stand it when women or minorities think that they're the special snowflake who can somehow "transcend" their lower status and move up in society.

It's always been my strong belief that the conscious or subconscious motivation motivation behind this anti-abortion (and the bizarrely antiquated anti-contraception) movement is fuelled by paranoia over the declined White birthrate. These people think that feminism, multiculturalism, and liberal values have led their…

Juan Pablo won't care though and he'll probably still get a ton of women to sleep with him until his body stops producing enough testosterone.

What a horrible, vindictive app. This is what gives MRA idiots ammo.

Don't wear panties. Er, it's for God.

Because her target audience isn't college women.

Thanks for acknowledging my post, FlowbeeBryant! Can always count on you to understand where I'm coming from!

By "do better," I mean not suffer from being negatively stereotyped as dumb thugs (or some other negative stereotype) by non-Black women, which is what appears to be happening in many surveys.

Thanks for the kind words!

There were many barriers to BM/WF relationships in the pre-Civil Rights era. Some of those barriers were enforced by the law. Others by terrorism and violence. Others by culture.

In summary:

Prevalence of Black men in sports and entertainment creates more familiarity with Black men as idealized masculine figures. Media representation is very important.

Two problems with that:

To all the people saying, "Would they ask a White woman that question?" you're totally missing the point.

Except that many times, people's racial "preferences" are often influenced by prejudices that saturate our society.

But it's not as if she's some acquiescent model minority type. She's out there constantly promoting the idea of dark-skinned beauty, which is a great threat to the Eurocentric standards we have now. Does it really matter whether she's descended from slaves or not? She's still "Black" in America.

Yeah. I call that the "Denzel Factor."

Awwww, that's so cute.

She's a dark-skinned Black woman. In Hollywood terms, ain't nothing conventional about it.