A woman raising a Mulatto baby will have issues dating some men. It’s not just white guys either. Some black men wouldn’t date her because of the Mulatto baby. Racism works in both directions.
It’s going to take another generation or so before this problem goes away. I wish we could wave a magic wand, but racism isn’t something you can eliminate instantly.
wtf
Yeah, her issue with dating them would probably be that she doesn’t want to date someone who says mulatto.
Just like when I like a dude and then I find out he’s straight. Total disappointment!
Mulatto is the correct term for any mixed race child.
I happen to be Mulatto and proud of my heritage. Six generations of my father’s family come from Louisiana. I have Creole, Indian, Black and White ancestors. My great grandmother on my moms side of the family was full blooded Indian. We have an old picture of her.
Exactly what I was thinking. I don’t care why they wouldn’t date me, just feel grateful that they’ve self-selected out.
What an icky thing to speculate about. I’m going to go take the internet equivalent of a shower by wandering over to the “fuck you brother whose house I am a guest in” thread 
No doubt, racism still exists. But your OP :*In looking around the web and IRL there seems to be a number of white men who will not consider dating a white woman who has dated or had a past sexual relationship with a black man. In some cases if they find out about her interracial dating history only after they begin dating they will make something else up as to why they are bailing on the relationship.
Obviously it’s racist on it’s face, but the strength of the attitude surprises me. Even fairly attractive and accomplished women are shunned as some sort of unclean trash if they have dated black men. I only see this attitude with respect to white men judging white women for dating black men. Possibly other scenarios exist, but this is the main one I see. This race centric judgment does not seem to be present for any other interracial hookups.
Why does this extreme antipathy exist? While it’s obnoxiously racist it’s not just poor rednecks espousing this attitude. I’ve seen this attitude ranging from trailer parks to the executive suites. And oddly some people who have this attitude aren’t that overtly racist in real world behavior, it’s just that specific hookup scenario that makes them lock the doors on even considering women who have dated black men.*
made it appear this was more than a few isolated rare cases by extremist idiots. If all you were doing is pointing out that there are still a few extremist racist idiots in the USA, then that’s a RO thread in the PIT.
**However, it’s clear that you have no evidence at all, you are just making shit up for the purpose of riling up the board. **
Aceplace57, I can’t speak for every black guy in the world, but at a guess, I don’t think you will find many that won’t raise a child because he is mixed race. Most black people I know consider mixed race people as just black.
Amateur Barbarian using the word inferior reminds me of the awful newsletters my racist, first generation American grandfather had, filled w/ ‘news’ about how this inferior white person ruined themselves w/ a ‘lowclass’ dark-skinned person and now they all lead a life of crime and/or poverty together as an obvious result.
And the OP reminds me of a racist trying to find some other reason besides their own racism to explain why an obviously racist thing happens.
Astro, how do you engender a lemur?
What, specifically, are you accusing him of making up? His own, anecdotal experiences? How about DiosaBellissima, is she making up hers too?
I’m 50. I grew up in Maryland, south of DC. Some of my white friends told me straight up that they would never have anything to do with a white girl that dated black. These guys weren’t just woofing, either. Their blood would almost boil at the thought.
In just about any website story featuring a black male / white female couple, at least one of the comments will be, “Once you go black, we don’t want you back!”
What kind of statistical data would satisfy you? How would someone go about collecting it?
Lord have mercy, and this is the board whose members like to tell themselves they’re the smartest and hippest on the planet.
Unfortunately so do most white people. Too bad we don’t have a machine that’ll put a star on everyones belly.
I used to hang out with my black teammates in high school in the late 70’s. Just doing that cost me grief with some of the redneck crowd. I never got jumped but friends of mine told me several times to watch my back.
I can’t imagine what a white girl dating a black would go through back then. Go in the wrong bar and you could get jumped or stabbed. That was only 15 years after the Civil Rights marches in the 60’s. Tensions were still high. It didn’t take much to find yourself in a dangerous situation.
Things are so much better today. It’s rare to hear of any violent reactions to mixed race couples.
This board? Seriously?
Smarter than most other MB’s of decent size, no doubt. Mind you some of the dedicated science boards are scary smart.
Hipper? :dubious:
From what I saw the TV w/o Piti dudes that think they are so hip it hurts. Here, not so much.
No, she has data. She said the OK Cupid site, if you answer a certain question. That’s data.
The OP is just trying to rile dudes up. He’s got nuthin. It’s not even RO.
Your obtuseness beggars the imagination. You have been told by people with no dog in this fight that these exclusionary racist attitudes exist as a matter of fact. And you sit there shaking your head “Nope, nope don’t believe it. It’s all made up. No one thinks or acts like that in the US today.”
Lynchings of black people in the early to middle part of the 1900’s were a matter of fact in the county in which I reside and several surrounding counties. Anti-Miscegnation laws were in effect in Virginia until 1967. The Republican Party as it current stands is a cradle of racial fury in it’s more activist elements, yet what I am telling you somehow boggles your mind.
God Bless you, you just keep shaking your head and none of the terrible, awful, not good things I’m telling you about people’s attitudes will ever come true.
I’m 40, have lived in two northern states and have heard this sentiment from men in both of them. I’ve been advised more than once not to tell anyone I’ve dated black men or no white man will want me. It’s bizarre as hell, but it’s a real deal.
I figure weeding out anyone that would think that way is more reason to tell, frankly.
Post 86 "No doubt, racism still exists. "
Nor were you just making a general claim that racism exists. Read your OP.
However, it’s clear that you have no evidence at all, you are just making shit up for the purpose of riling up the board.
I was at a BBQ type/pool party (casual) get together with about 20 or so people. There was music playing and at one point a Lenny Kravitz song came on and one of the girls next to me said she saw him in concert and how good the show was. I said something about him being really sexy and you could almost hear the proverbial record scratch and one of the guys said “I never would have guessed you for a mudshark.” and instead of hearing people gasping in horror at his nastiness a couple of people agreed with him. Up until that point (although I didn’t know them all that well) I had no idea they were racist jackasses. Live and learn.
I was out with my buddy one night and I met his sister-in-law’s friend, a really cute one too; afterwards she was interested in me but he wouldn’t give her my number because she was a “nigger-digger”. I confronted him on the bullshit with “you’ve been with black women”, which was the truth. That was different somehow.