French men dating black women

30-Jul-2020 15:21

It caused a lot of issues for her, and their relationship and ultimately, he ended the relationship.

My sister is very non-confrontational and so she wouldn’t invite him over if she was there, because she didn’t want to cause problems, but in reality it did.

Once, I was at a bar with friends when two white men approached me.

One was a guy who was interested in talking to me, and the other was acting as his wingman.

White men navigate society with relative ease while black women are teetering on the precarious margins of race and gender that they do not have the privilege to ignore.

This is not a game to us, nor is it something we can ignore.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t the first or last awkward date I’ve had with a white man.

I wish I could say that I’m surprised and appalled by the ignorance that white men tend to show when they approach me, but I’ve come to expect it.

He kept touching my hair without my consent, was legitimately disappointed that I could not twerk, and called me “sassy” whenever I voiced an opinion that was different from his.

While white men are not the only group to hold racial biases and stereotypes against black women, they tend to be the least informed on the racialized and gendered issues that black women endure.