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You are dating a black girl?
Michael K. Wallace, Johnson City, TN. This was the opening question to the most consistent family conversation I had during my freshmen year of highschool....
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Michael K. Wallace, Johnson City, TN. This was the opening question to the most consistent family conversation I had during my freshmen year of highschool....
Anonymous, Northampton, MA. He’s a white European, and has never considered black women to be attractive, apparently until he met me and we got to...
Gabby Mbeki, Boston, MA. In the fall of 1997, I started 6th grade at a day independent school in Connecticut. I grew up in a...
Sarah P, Durham, NH p>As a white woman dating a black man, I have gotten questions before about making sure I would be okay with...
Anonymous, TX. Said a well travelled Black American female veteran to her biracial, trilingual, and dual citizen son. Behind her, in full agreement, stood her...
Anna, MN. I am not attracted to black guys. Even if I was it’s hard. Any person can be my friend but I don’t want...
Duncan, Macon, GA p>Being tired and hating are two different things. My girlfriend is a beautiful black woman who is also tired of blacks. She’s...
Jamie Haines, Franklin, VA. As an inter-racial lesbian couple in Virginia, we have to plan carefully. Will that small diner be safe? Can we vacation...
Lemon Wilson, Beloit, WI My partner is Mexican and I am white, in this day and age people still ask if we are really dating.
Paula Morris, Long Beach, CA. A white girl growing up in Orange County, CA, where I was anything and anyone “different” was “bad”, I have...
Dana Judkins, Shreveport, LA. I get this a lot when people find out I have a black boyfriend.
Daisy Reyes, Rialto, CA. Even as a little girl in Mexico I was the “Chinita” (little Chinese). When I came to the U.S., I was...
Patricia Duhalde, Aurora, CO This man is my soulmate. Didn’t know much about his experience on this planet until I fell in love with him....
Jaden Miskowiec, Memphis, TN. I went to homecoming with my best friend, who happens to be black. One woman asked my mother if we were...
Leah Thomas Florissant, MO I grew up in Saint Louis, MO and I moved to a mainly white private school in the 5th grade. I...
Javi Banderas, Spain White male dating a person of color. Learning about race is a never-ending process – grateful for my partner & teacher.
Lynn Li, Hilo, HI. I feel a little sheltered living in Hawaii. I’m 100% Chinese and my significant other, Angel, is Afro- Latino. No one...