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I am African Americacan I have been in an interracial marriage for 16 years with a White woman. I have been deeply interested in the subject of interracial marriage and mixed race people most of my life. It is my passion. The following is a my laundry list of reasons for the growing previlance of interracial marriage between African Americans and other groups. My primary focus is on Blacks and Whites.

Two of my brothers are also interracially married and my youngest brother dates interrracially.

Most people stay with their own race however opposits attract amongst many. There exist an anti- inbreeding impulse. This helped to influence me. I did not want to be attracted to somone like my own sister or mother and White women are the opposite of my family.

It is my opinion that, lighter skinned African African Americans outmarry more often than darker skinned African Americans. African Americans know that the culture favors lighter skin. Many African Americans resent this cultural fact and consider race mixing against Black culture. However Black resistance to mixing has always been lower than that of White peoples resistance to blending with Black's in America. African American culture has always been less biased against White people in this country. Additionally, African American culture is becoming more and more open than it already was to interracial marriage. Social intergration and declining racism is speeding up this process.

Other factors in interracial relationships are geographical and social. African Americans gennerally live in areas consentrated with other Blacks. Churches are segregated and so are neighborhoods. White kids go to White schools and colledges. Occupations are also gennerally segrigated. However in those areas where African Americans are spread out or thouroghly intergrated wihth other groups, interracial marriage and dating happes more often. The military and the Pacific North West are examples of places where in cultural geographical ways Blacks are more intergrated. In Such situations Blacks have more chances to mix with Whites and other non Black minorities. In extreemly small towns almost zero other African Americans are available.

There are psycological factors which come to play inbetween Blak men White women and the opposite. Some the factors are unique to the spacific blend.
The following are psycological dynamics of which I have observed. Between group variations these factors can be interchangable but in genneral this is what I have observed.

Blacks who are culturally intergrated such as those who attend predominantly white churches and those who attend colledge are more likly to outmarry.
Economically, Blacks who earn higher incomes outmarry more often. This might be due to their social distance from the majority of African Americans.

A primary reason for Black mens strong desire for white women in this country is that the beauty standard of this nation for Women is based on Light skin. Black men have a unique stronger attraction towards women who are more heavy set while White men have a stronger attraction towards skinny women. I believe that White men's attraction to skinny women is growing While Black men appretiate a wider range of Beauty.

Women have sexual attractions toward toughness and coolness among other things. Even during slavery many white women would risk everything to be in love with Black Slaves. In our culture today nerdyness is a turn off to most women even though a nerd might make a more stable relationship partner. A nerd is somone who acts overwhite. Black men represent the anti-nerd. Black men also represent feircness in this coulture so White women might feel more safe around Black men. White women who love Black music and mixed race children I believe are very prone to love black men. The demand for Black men is getting stronger as American culture imbraces hip hop culture.

White men and Black women is a more complicated situation however for the white man I believe that Black Women represent strong sexuality. Before the sixies White man Black women marriages were more common than the opposite.

For the Black Women being attracted to White men I believe that this kind of African American Woman is the less connected to her culture and more asiemilated. She might also be exeptionally beutiful, smart, or wealthy. She might also be very light skinned. Many Black women want their children to have straigh less curly hair so they might be inclined to have children with whites.

For Black women interracial relationships might also be a matter of practicality. There are so many self destructive Black men with leagal troubles, dating white women, gay, substance abusers or whith multiple children by other women that White men offer a great choice. White men also tend to earn more money and come from more stable families. they might see White men as a ticket to some of our cultures inherent White priviledge.

All of these reasons are some considerations and these are genneralities which I have observed. I am not a social scientist. I am a Black Conservative who loves some writings by Steve Sailor and other experts on the subject of Race. I love Black politics and History usually from other Black writers. However ,Steve Sailor is a rare white expert on the subject of interracial relations.

What I wrote is just a bunch of opinions. Another researcher who blogs about this topic alot is Rachel Sullivan the writer of the blog Rachel's Tavern. If you go to her site google MikeR and you will find many of my post about the topic. You can also google "interracial power" I have been posting alot of stuff in the last two years.

Soon Most Americans will have mixed relatives that they know of in their families and in that day racism will be diminished.

Interracial Power!