I think it's funny that people can base your heritage and ethnicity based on your actions, people you marry etc. I am a proud black man...I wake up daily thankful for what I have, I love my family and go out into the world seeking knowledge and wanting an honest days pay for an honest days work. Now, here's the twist, my wife and daughter are white and my son is a mixed ethnicity of my wife and I. For whatever reason, some folks think that these facts disqualifies me from knowing or speaking about my culture and heritage. They think that I wanna-be white...clearly this isn't the case. I didn't make my wife white...I didn't search for a white woman to be my wife..I found the person that loves me unconditionally, and vice versa!
This topic is being brought up because of a headline on a magazine I was looking at. It said something to the effect of "Do black men still want us"...a reference to black women. Here's my take on that...find the person that you connect with, be it black, white, asian...it doesn't matter to me! To be a chauvinist for a quick second...to all women...it's all pink on the inside! Who cares, my family is a beautiful house of diversity, and that's all I care about. Just dont sell me short as a black man...that's all I ask, i'm out there dealing with shit that all black men deal with...i'm no exception, and I don't want to be.
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About your Heritage Piece.I do not like men of my ethnic background. I believe i was traumatized by my ex-husband , who is white. I have dated asian,white, hispanic, african-american, etc, i am not partial to any one race. I look inside the person and to see if we are compatible. I haven't figured out which race caused the most looks, it was a close running between the asian and the african-american, but I can tell you when i was with them we held our heads high. Keep your head held high, and your love strong, and life will just fall into place. Oh p.s. I am with an african american man now and I get into a quite a few verbal disagreements with african-american women.
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