I'm Black. The "self-hating" charge isn't really leveled at people just for dating a White person. It gets applied to people who either actively disparage other Black people, think that Whites are superior relationship material, or who feel that dating outside their race somehow makes them superior to the rest of us.

A few years ago she was on the cusp of a legitimate music career, but then decided that she would rather be a constant opportunity for people to speak ill of her.

I imagine Azaelia Banks is the type of woman granny was referring to when said, "if a b*tch can throw a punch, she can take a punch".

I was in college by the time I actually "got" the Nation of Domination's gimmick; 90's WWF gave zero f*cks.

I'm straight. My ego is pansexual.

I've heard this before from some of my women friends; that sounds horrifying.

You know how I look like 2Chainz? I have long dreadlocks and I wear glasses. That's literally it. White folk are especially bad about it, lol.

Oh, I haaatttteee the "you look like…" people. Random people have been telling me I look like 2Chainz since 2011.

I'm not wishing for it but…it's happened to all my friends and I know I look as good/better than most of them, dammit!

….And now I'm self-conscious because a gay dude has never hit on me. This is a strange feeling.

All things being equal; the Bride.

For me, in those situations, I didn't ask for a date/number because I just didn't think to. I hadn't approached the lady with specific intention of trying to holler, so it didn't register that, "hey, this is a good opportunity to shoot your shot."
In retrospect, I think that reticence was mostly down to a lack of…

I will forever associate Nia Long & Tatiana Ali with the point in my childhood when I discovered my "manly" urges.

I admit, I've done this a few times.

How have you lasted to season 3??

Its 90 something degrees 200 days out the year; it's not an issue.

That annoys me so much! My mom doesn't measure anything, she just eyeballs everything and thats not a skill you can just teach. I've never been able to make any dish that tastes like hers.

How you gone have a get together and not have cornbread?!?!

cornbread, baked beans, green beans, black eyed peas, red beans, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, macaroni & cheese, corn on the cob, various alcoholic beverages, chitlins, sweet potato bread, million dollar pie, dirty rice, chicken bog, and about a hundred other things infinitely better than that mushy…

Doesn't matter how good it feels if the rest of the experience is boring.