# Robert DeNiro and black women **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896 "2006-07-24T23:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/21 "2006-07-25T17:44:30Z")
[QUOTE=thelurkinghorror] I seem to recall him making jokes about his relationships on TV (SNL?). [/QUOTE] He did play a sketch as Thomas Jefferson flirting with a black slave, played by Maya Rudolph. (“When do you get off work?” “Uh, never.”) ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/22 "2006-07-25T17:47:16Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] Seriously, does anybody care when a white man marries two blonde women and has a baby with anther blonde woman? [/QUOTE] Well, yeah. There has been a thing or two said about John Cleese marrying three American blondes in succession. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/23 "2006-07-25T17:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] Well, we are all that and a bag of chips. [/QUOTE] Oh great. Now I’m envisioning **Biggirl** naked, oiled and covered with Ruffles chips. --whimper– 😃 ( having met her, and her sublimely genteel hubby, I feel somewhat safe saying this. Somewhat. Not " I would stand at the intersection of DeKalb and Flatbush and scream it at the top of my lungs" safe, but you know… safe. 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/24 "2006-07-25T18:59:53Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > In my area I seem to notice at least as many black woman/white guy couples as the other way around; probably more. In and around New York, haven of diversity though we are, it’s _way_ less common for the Black partner to be female. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/25 "2006-07-25T19:17:16Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Slight hijack: I once dated a guy (very, verrrrry white) whose four sisters were all either married to ,or had children by, black men. Did I _care_? No. It did strike me as odd, though. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen two families like this. Both families very, very white: Norwegian family: Three children - older daughter and younger fraternal twins. The older daughter married and divorced three Samoans in a row, then a black man, before marrying and divorcing a white man older than her dad. Not sure what her relationship status is at the moment. The twins have each been married once (and are still married to their first spouses). The daughter-twin is married to a black man, and the son-twin is married to a Samoan woman. French family: Biological son and daughter, and one adopted Korean daughter. Son married a Korean woman. Biological daughter had an out-of-wedlock child with a black guy, and eventually married a different black man. Adopted Korean daughter had an out-of-wedlock child with a Korean guy, but I don’t know her current status. My city has a large Hispanic population. For decades this population was migrant - here during harvest and then gone. But it was fairly common to see a Hispanic man hook up with a white woman - usually an overweight blonde. Now that the Hispanic population is more permanent, I’m pleased to see that white man/Hispanic woman hookups are just as common. Though this tends to be more common among the younger generations, who have actually gotten to attend school with Hispanics. Up through my generation, the migrant Hispanic workers didn’t send their kids to school and so we didn’t have much opporunity to socialize with them. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/26 "2006-07-25T19:37:57Z")
[QUOTE=Askia] model Toukie Smith, a long-term girlfriend and sister of the late fashion designer Willi Smith. [/QUOTE] :eek: kinky. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/27 "2006-07-25T20:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo] :eek: kinky. 😃 [/QUOTE] Especially since he was into guys. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/28 "2006-07-26T04:06:36Z")
It’s two and a half times as common for a black man to be married to a white woman as for a white man to be married to a black woman (in the U.S.): > **[Interracial marriage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage)** > > Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. > In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation. The word, now usually considered pejorative, first appeared in Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, a hoax anti-abolitionist pamphlet published in 1864. In 1960 interracial marriage was forbidden by... ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/29 "2006-07-26T05:06:15Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] How about if a guy marries women of different colors with huge boobies? [/QUOTE] Wait, are the boobies different colors? 'Cause that would be cool! Count me in as a guy whose okay with the darker members of the fairer sex. I tend to like women of all colors and most shapes, although I’ve never been terribly thrilled with Asian women. Just not my thing. If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to pick just ONE type (and that would be a horrible day!) I’d probably go for Latinas. Ironically, this remains the one major ethnic category I have never gone on a single date with. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/30 "2006-07-26T05:09:01Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] In and around New York, haven of diversity though we are, it’s _way_ less common for the Black partner to be female. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I’ve noticed since I moved to eastern PA last year the races seem to seperate out a little more thoroughly here than on the West Coast. It’s unfortunate. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/31 "2006-07-26T11:17:35Z")
[QUOTE=Lizard] Wait, are the boobies different colors? 'Cause that would be cool! [/QUOTE] I figured “women of different colors with huge boobies” referred to someone like [Element Girl](http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/silverage/ElementGirl-metamorpho_10_04.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/32 "2006-07-26T12:51:30Z")
[QUOTE=Lizard] If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to pick just ONE type (and that would be a horrible day!) I’d probably go for Latinas. Ironically, this remains the one major ethnic category I have never gone on a single date with. [/QUOTE] There may be a connection. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/33 "2006-07-26T12:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=Lizard] Yeah, I’ve noticed since I moved to eastern PA last year the races seem to seperate out a little more thoroughly here than on the West Coast. It’s unfortunate. [/QUOTE] Not to take this discussion off course, but why, in your opinion, is that _unfortunate_? Please don’t read anything into that question; I simply don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/34 "2006-07-26T18:07:58Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] There may be a connection. [/QUOTE] There isn’t. I just don’t run into Latina women much. I haven’t ;ived in may places where they are common. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/35 "2006-07-26T18:10:12Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Not to take this discussion off course, but why, in your opinion, is that _unfortunate_? Please don’t read anything into that question; I simply don’t understand. [/QUOTE] Because, with a rainbow’s worth of members of the oposite sex to choose from, why do people decide to stick to their own kind? Life’s an adventure, live it up, I say. But I’m in the minority, apparently. I just think women are women and men are men, no matter their color. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/36 "2006-07-26T19:21:55Z")
[QUOTE=Lizard] Because, with a rainbow’s worth of members of the oposite sex to choose from, why do people decide to stick to their own kind? Life’s an adventure, live it up, I say. But I’m in the minority, apparently. I just think women are women and men are men, no matter their color. [/QUOTE] Why? Speaking for myself, I happen to be most _physically_ attracted to “my own kind”. I don’t think there’s much “deciding” involved. Not to say that I would never date someone of another race if I was attracted to them, but I also wouldn’t do it just to prove something. I agree people are people, regardless of their color or whatever, but sometimes it just seems that people go out of their way to show how darned openminded they are (I’m not saying you’re doing that, **Lizard** ). ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/37 "2006-07-26T20:51:01Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Why? Speaking for myself, I happen to be most _physically_ attracted to “my own kind”. I don’t think there’s much “deciding” involved. I think that is the “default setting” for most people on the planet! Most of the time, the majority of people will be most attracted to their own race/nationality/ethnic group. When there are various races and ethnic groups living in close proximity, a few people will pair off with members of other groups, but most will stay within their own nationality or race. I think its just human nature. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/38 "2006-07-26T21:04:36Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Why? Speaking for myself, I happen to be most _physically_ attracted to “my own kind”. I don’t think there’s much “deciding” involved. Not to say that I would never date someone of another race if I was attracted to them, but I also wouldn’t do it just to prove something. I agree people are people, regardless of their color or whatever, but sometimes it just seems that people go out of their way to show how darned openminded they are (I’m not saying you’re doing that, **Lizard** ). [/QUOTE] Well, no particular reason “Why,” I just think it’s more fun that way. As for there being no decision, that’s not true. You can _decide_ to try something different from what you always do. If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. But if you know what you really like, by all means stick with it. I’m not knocking that. But I don’t know what I really like, so I’m not crossing anyone off. And you’re correct I’m not trying to trumpet my openmindedness. Someone made a comment and I responded. No big whoop. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/39 "2006-07-26T21:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=Lizard] Well, no particular reason “Why,” I just think it’s more fun that way. As for there being no decision, that’s not true. You can _decide_ to try something different from what you always do. If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. But if you know what you really like, by all means stick with it. I’m not knocking that. But I don’t know what I really like, so I’m not crossing anyone off. And you’re correct I’m not trying to trumpet my openmindedness. Someone made a comment and I responded. No big whoop. [/QUOTE] No whoop indeed, Geddy, I mean **Lizard** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896/40 "2006-07-26T21:29:47Z")
Pretty is pretty no matter what the color. If I’m attracted to her, then I’m gonna pounce, color be damned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-and-black-women/365896.md?page=3)