On Being Receptive?

Hey Family!

I have heard several times that Caribbean (West Indian), and African women are more receptive to multi ethnic relationships, more so than African American women. This kind of plays into the same insulting rhetoric as that lame light complexion dark complexion debate.

I am from the Midwest, and as an African American woman I have many African American women friends, as well as friends from other ethnicity's. Many of my friends have dated men from different ethnicity's. Some say that they do not because they could not take possibly being used, or rejected in that way.

I would never part my lips to say that I thought Italian men are more approachable and receptive to dating women of African American ethnicity. Who am I to make such a call! After all do we really care what region of the African diaspora the lady happens to hale from, content of character should really supersede all else. I really believe that a woman is receptive to a man who is receptive to her. Accept me as a human being first, and we can take it from there!