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Ebony girl, white guy: Should race matter in love?
It’s been so very very long, We can’t also keep in mind exactly just what the column ended up being about or exactly exactly how I’d drawn the ire of this audience whom mailed me personally in reaction.
She had been — she disagreed vehemently with whatever I’d said that week like me— black, middle-aged and middle-class, and.
She tossed straight down the gauntlet along with her closing remark: “I’m able to tell; you’re one of these females having a white boyfriend.”
I happened to be very happy to have the ability to rally straight straight back: “My boyfriend is black colored.” Simply just Take that.
But I happened to be additionally grateful that her challenge hadn’t come the before year. I quickly might have been bad as charged, to be those types of ladies with a white boyfriend.
She’d intended it as an insult, and I also respected that. We remember experiencing vaguely ashamed at being therefore blatantly called down; and relieved that I experienced reclaimed my destination when you look at the sisterhood by landing a mate that is acceptable.
It wasn’t until years later — when that relationship had been done and I also ended up being surveying the pool of eligible guys — myself, what does “one of those women” mean that I had to ask? (mehr …)
