i believe
>that there is potential inside
>of us that is only
>realized in true partnership with
>someone who was created specifically
>for us

what's next? I think that medium complected men shouldn't date dark or light-skinned women, but someone who was created specifically for us..?

Please.

However, there is a current state of things in the US and some other places, where too many black men have lost the proper respect for their own women... and inter-"racial" relationships spring up out of the shear novelty of having someone "different"... There's a level of maturity that someone should have about any issues regarding someone else before they consumate a relationship... and some folks - many folks - are not mature enough to deal with someone of a different "race" in a relationship... funny you don't see such big issues in white male/asian female relationships which are so common these days... That's because the problem is cultural... Asian Americans don't have the deep-seated and long historical conflict with "whites" that African Americans do. For example, do you have a problem with black men dating Samoan women? No, and why not? Because of history, not because of who's "created" for someone else.

My problem with the initial post here is that it is racial. What I mean by "racial" is that you acknowledge race as something important. What I mean by "race" is the idea that "black" and "white" are mutually exclusive and naturally different. "Racial" is not far off from "racist" which is the promotion of separatism and the theory of superiority or supremacy of any "race/s" over any other.

But I'm in agreement with the fact that there's alterior motives (and they ain't all good) behind the man and the woman in most black man/white woman things... sad but true.

PIZ (pronounced spanishly, thats peace)

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