Unfortunately, the effects of white supremacy continue to sneak into my dating life, and it's a hard pill to swallow — despite how beautiful and intriguing I believe myself to be — that it's not always my dazzling personality that captures the attention of men.
What I have become is someone who has been given the chance to share the Black experience with those who may not have had an opportunity to experience it and all of its splendor otherwise.
Let no one cast you out or shut you down, because your Black voice matters, too.
We want to explore our hearts to see if there is pride, bitterness, self-righteousness and hate against our brothers and sisters in Christ.
The issue arises, however, when fetishization is the only way to explain Black women with white or non-Black partners.
Description: Though I knew we had come from contrasting worlds and were practically opposites, those differences only drove us closer together.