I don't think "blood libel" is necessarily accurate since it normally applies to a specific Christian myth about Jews unless Sarah Palin is speaking. But the continent of Africa has more human genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined, and most Americans who identify as Black have ancestors from other…

Is my maleocity really that obvious? I try to keep it on the DL in places like this.

The United States was founded in 1492 when Columbus landed at Plymouth Rock with the Declaration of Independence in hand and liberated the Indians from their oppressive smallpox-free lifestyle.

Online dating suffers from the same flaws of many anonymous forums, that the most aggressive and least socially constrained people have excessive visibility. I would never insist that you should keep trying it even if it makes you uncomfortable, but I just don't think it's an accurate reflection of real life.

I am a white guy and I have never once heard of this idea that many of my compatriots would never date a white girl who once dated a black guy. I have no idea what "board" this is true across.

Quadroon balls? I had to look that up just now. What the hell is wrong with people?

How else other than SATC am I supposed to learn about black women? My basic cable doesn't include BET.

Sometimes it's like these guys have never even met their hands.

Picking Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell as your touchstones of black opinion explains a whole lot.

Black female slaves might have accommodated their masters' demands out of fear of getting whipped to death. What sluts!

Your inability to understand the difference between the OP's experience with white men and your personal behavior is not in fact a demonstration of your superior white logic skills.

I understand the appeal and reasoning behind the "womanist" label, but I don't think it's necessarily fair to discount all self-identified feminists of color. I try to follow Racialicious, Pam Spalding, ABL, brownfemipower, blackamazon, and others, though I don't always agree with them. Maybe I'm misinterpreting…

I love how all these white people have such a problem with rap music, as if the Rolling Stones never wrote a song called Brown Sugar. (Which, despite being an awesome piece of music, is racist and misogynistic as fuck.)

Sure, but white guys (like me) are culturally in a position of power that black women in general do not have access to.

Shorter hypocritesSUCK: Now that I've condescended to deem you black women marginally attractive, can you get on with sucking my dick already?

Not all men are like that, it's just that there's no way of knowing for sure whether any particular guy will act that way. I wish I had a better answer.

Do you mind if I ask what race you identify as? From my perspective as a white guy, I can say that I could never date a woman who refused to date black or Latino guys, which sadly seems way too common online.

Ugh, that is really awful. I'm sorry. I think Craigslist posts aren't necessarily representative of the overall truth though; they tend to bring out the worst.

The thing is, if both parties are coming into the picture with the understanding that the hookup is a way to get better in the sack or whatever, no problem. The problem arises when someone pretends to want a relationship but really just treats the other person as a "starter partner," i.e. a means to an end.

Not all men are that horrible. Maybe most of us are; I've never dated a man, so I can't really say. I'm just getting comfortable with the idea of being on my own myself, and it's pretty liberating, that whole idea of not having to contort oneself to fit some hypothetical other's expectations.