If you 35+ like most on this forum, cold approach was the norm up until probably the mid 2010's. I used to cold approach in my 20's. It was was actually easy getting a chick number back then. Nowadays women act like their number is their damn social security number and rather have you follow them on the gram like a groupie. Sometimes they would just give up the number after you introduced yourself, no questions asked. The difficult part is that girls, especially young girls in their prime, tended to get amnesia fast for a woman you met one time, so you had to get to work quick on the phone game without coming off as desperate. Cold approach was easy drunk in the bar/club, but the amnesia factor was 10x worse in bars/clubs that are set up for one night stand hookups. I started cold approaching again recently.
Most black women are cool when you approach if you tall, ain't ugly and can dress, but you'll still get rejected a good percentage of the time because everyone gets rejected. Also, if you think a bytch is fine, a million other nikkas do too and of course she might have a boyfriend. And some women like to play games, but I'm too old for that. It's a numbers game at the end of the day.
Women send choosing signals they want you to approach them all the time. You know women won't look you dead in the face for more than a split second if they don't want to talk to you. You will be invisible to a woman who finds you unattractive. And if you in public and they always find a way to be right next to you, that's a greenlight. Or you see her fixing herself up (fixing her lipgloss, fixing her hair in a mirror or reflection) after she looks at you. But when you handsome gang, women will throw you choosing signals just to reject you just to have that validation that you hollered at her.
Cold approach is cool. You're a man you're supposed to go for the things you want in life with confidence. And just like looking for a job, you're going to face rejection. You just gotta push through. Too many men want to play the woman role and have women come to them. They might, but the women who will try to holler at you probably ain't gonna be your number 1 draft pick. It's rare that bad bytches holler at men unless you a full fledged celebrity.