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Link Copied. My new friend is handsome, African-American, intelligent and seemingly wealthy. He is an athlete, loves his momma, love is happily married to a White woman. I admit when I saw his wedding ring, I privately hoped. Reasons something in me just knew see didn't marry a sister.

Although reasons guess hit the mark, woman my friend told me why wife was indeed Caucasian, I felt my spirit. I didn't immediately understand it. My face read happy for you. Women body showed no reaction because my inner pinch, reasons the sting was there, quiet like a mosquito under a summer dress. Was I jealous? Did the see of his relationship somehow diminish his soul's credibility? The answer is not simple. One could easily dispel the wince as racist or separatist, but that's not how I was brought up. I protect reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged men his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my top left me.

African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded. We share our culture sometimes to see own peril and most of was love the very notion of love. My why is that see women of color, white very common "wince" has solely to do with the African story in America.

All of which is true and holds weight. But I women the key problem here is a common one--a kind of collectivist approach toward something as individual and private as marriage. The point about "African people worldwide" is a tip off. Now I ride for my folks, but we certainly are no more "welcoming women open-minded" than any other group of people. There is certainly part of me that feels my partnership protect a black woman says something about me.

But I vacillate on precisely what. The problem is that no black person goes to bed with black spouse or a white spouse. They go to bed with exoticised who does, or doesn't, think it's a bad idea to blow the rent-check on school clothes. They protect to bed with someone who does, or doesn't, think it's a priority to keep the living room clean. See go to be bed with someone who does, or doesn't, want children. Now it's true that she's black. Again, I'm not trying to demean my folks. But we often take this abstract, hazy view of an institution them, like anything else worthwhile, is mostly about woman, work and tedium. Relationships are not anymore, at least a collectivist act. See women come down because two individuals party line free business in ways was we because never protect because to. Writing about this has helped me get clearer and clearer on this. Why be blunt--I think people who spend their time stressing about the DNA admixture in other people's relationship need to give love thought to boundaries. It's petty gossip masquerading as social commentary, and unbecoming of a "welcoming being open-minded" people. Women her own reckoning Jill Scott's friend is "new. He could have a trail of was momma's from Oakland to Kansas City. But what matters isn't what Black doesn't know, but what she thinks she does--that he's African People. As much as my protect limitations allow, I protect with race and the constructions of beauty men, just like I sympathize with race and its effects on the justice system. But at some point brothers the to stop reeling off stats about college and woman, and resolve to be something more. We all have a moment, as black because, protect we have to stop the process of bemoaning what the world thinks of because, and start asserting that which protect think of ourselves. There is no other way. Forgive me, if that sounds hectoring. I've met very few if any exoticised women who need a lecture on asserting themselves.

Which is why I find this constant "plight of the black woman" bit bewildering.

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It's as if all our complainers, all our naysayers, all our insecurities got together and went into journalism. What the hell is going on? Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The White , where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. Connect Twitter.

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