This is just what a friend of mine suggests. She says that African American men are going for White or Lighter Skinned African American women. She says this leaves few good men for African American women who are darker skinned. Just when I was going to reject this idea, a male friend of mine said about the same thing. He said as a result of fewer good African American men, African-American women had to share men, and had taken single motherhood in stride; after all don't most women want a child?
I thought about HIGH SCHOOL. OK... In my high school some of the best athletes were Black. Is that a stereotype? I can only say it was true. And most of these men did seem to reject the women of their own race and date White, European-Americans. There was a catch. These same White, European-American women were then shunned by White men! Yes! The town was kind of small. And I feel that everyone got along pretty well otherwise.
I had one friend in school who was of African-American and Native American heritage and she wore braids. I was there when a man (a boy actually) crossed the HIGH SCHOOL cafeteria and told her that she was not Black. Not Black due to her hair style, and for associating with a group of White women (girls really.)
I don't know how this would play in today's high school generation. To me it seems there is far less prejudice. Am I wrong? Maybe I don't just get it?
Let me know!
Sister
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