“I heard you’re dating a black girl.” Yep. Another time, my boyfriend got a call from his ex-girlfriend. Their thought bubble hovered, clear as day: “After everything they’ve done to us, you’re going to date one of them?”Īnd some days, it was tough because I felt guilty for not completing the picture of the strong black couple. My dating outside the race was seen as a betrayal. Whenever we went somewhere with a lot of black people in attendance, I got the side eye from some of them. We continued dating, and soon we were exclusive. “I don’t want to be part of your chocolate fantasy.” “Because maybe black girls are your thing,” I said. What if I were part of some Dixieland fantasy of his? After we were seated I asked him how many black girls he’d dated. For that reason, I started getting nervous about this guy. Raised in Florida, I know about chewing tobacco, gator farms, 2 Live Crew, y’all, and the Confederate flag. “The heart of Klan activity,” one of my friends felt compelled to tell me. Translation: Some of my friends date Asian women. I have a lot of friends in interracial relationships. Translation: I’d never do it but I think Halle Berry’s pretty. Interracial relationships aren’t a big deal nowadays. Over the years working in numerous writers rooms as the only black writer, I’d become a pro at deciphering comments white guys made: No matter how advanced a society we think we are, the idea that we’re post-racial is laughable.
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