dongameister
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This was one of many responses I saw online from the faux woke crowd on twitter and facebook. Let me state right off the bat that I have no issue with Meghan Markle. In fact, this has absolutely nothing to do with her personally. I think it's no ones business who black men or black women marry. If your spouse of S.O is white, I'm happy for you. Do your thing.
My issue is with those praising her engagement. They have shown that they are blatantly biased. Black men are held to ridiculous standards in relation to IR dating/marriage.
From VSB to other black liberal publications like Madamenoire, and Clutch, they're always writing blogs, articles, doing vlogs, shaming black men for dating outside their race. The commentariat in these spaces are littered with people excoriating black men who date out, but not black women who do the same. When they discuss colorism, they use that to bludgeon black men over the heads with it. There is always something wrong with black men, whether we date out or not. In fact, that should be the tagline of all of these black online publications because that's the only narrative you will see from these publications on black men.
Every month, it seems there's always some article singling out black men who date or marry out. There are no critical pieces on black women who date out coming from VSB, The Root, Huffpo, MN, Clutch, etc.
I can't be the only one who sees the glaring double standard.
My issue is with those praising her engagement. They have shown that they are blatantly biased. Black men are held to ridiculous standards in relation to IR dating/marriage.
From VSB to other black liberal publications like Madamenoire, and Clutch, they're always writing blogs, articles, doing vlogs, shaming black men for dating outside their race. The commentariat in these spaces are littered with people excoriating black men who date out, but not black women who do the same. When they discuss colorism, they use that to bludgeon black men over the heads with it. There is always something wrong with black men, whether we date out or not. In fact, that should be the tagline of all of these black online publications because that's the only narrative you will see from these publications on black men.
Every month, it seems there's always some article singling out black men who date or marry out. There are no critical pieces on black women who date out coming from VSB, The Root, Huffpo, MN, Clutch, etc.
I can't be the only one who sees the glaring double standard.
