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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Black_women_going_for_white_guys/articleshow/2257768.cms
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: For years, Toinetta Jones played the dating game by her mom’s strict rule. “Mom always told me, ‘Don’t you ever bring a white man home,’” recalled Jones, echoing an edict issued by many Southern black mothers. But at 37, the Alexandria divorcee has shifted to dating “anyone who asks me out”, regardless of race.
Black women around the country also are reconsidering deep-seated reservations toward interracial relationships, reservations rooted in America’s history of slavery and segregation. They are taking cues from their favourite stars - from actress Shar Jackson to Venus Williams - as well as support blogs, how-to books and interracially themed novels telling them it’s OK to “date out”.
Jones reflects many black women frustrated as the field of marriageable black men narrows: they are nearly seven times more likely to be incarcerated than white men.
National census data showed 117,000 black wife-white husband couples in 2006, up from 95,000 in 2000. There were just 26,000 such couples in 1960. Black female-white male romance has become a hot topic in black-geared magazines and on websites, even hitting the big screen in movies like last year’s Something New.
That film centres on an affluent black woman who falls for her white landscaper, a situation not unlikely as black women scale the corporate ladder, said Evia Moore, whose interracial marriage blog draws 1,000 visitors a day.
It features articles like “Could Mr. Right Be White?” “Black women are refusing to comply with that message about just find yourself a good blue-collar man with a job, or just find a black man,” Moore said.