Interracial dating in dc

06-15-2016, 07:17 PM

This thread is BS.

DC has loads of interracial relationships and the suburbs have even more. Also, there are a lot more races in the DC area than black and white people.

But I've noticed that whenever you have a situation where every 3rd couple isn't interracial it somehow means "there are no interracial relationships". I see interracial relationships in DC proper on a weekly basis. I repeat: A weekly basis.

06-15-2016, 10:25 PM

The difference between DC and other cities is Blacks don't feel the need to seek the white community validation, which confuses whites when they move here

06-16-2016, 06:13 AM

Is that a fact or an assumption? I don't see any evidence of this. What are some examples of more blacks seeking validation from the white community in other U.S. cities?

06-16-2016, 09:02 AM

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I agree with you totally. Many people can't stand the fact that the Black community in DC just wants to be left alone. We don't seek to live you, dress like you, date you, party with you or socialize with you. If it happens great!!! If not oh well!! Some people of other races will never understand what it means to not feel the need to fully assimilate into White culture. Black people in DC particularly those that were born here are incredibly independent and we live life the way that we want.to You're wasting your time trying to explain this cultural difference to some posters. The fact remains that there are very few White - Black interracial couples in DC when compared to places like Seattle, Phoenix, LA, The Bay area, Portland, Denver etc...... I'm not saying it doesn't go on but it certainly isn't as widespread as some people are saying that it is and it really depends on what area of the city you're in at a given time.

06-16-2016, 09:22 AM

This seems simple.

Black people are significantly less likely to intermarry for a multitude of reasons.

Black people are the largest non-White group in the DC metro area.

Therefore, the DC metro area has less inter-racial dating/marriage than the Bay Area.

06-16-2016, 10:03 AM

And again.. the real issue is covered by a phantom issue. People generally marry and date people in the same socio-economic class as well as the same culture. Most poor people in DC are black and embrace a ghetto culture that no other group in the area really relates to. Therefore, they are unlikely to mate with or even associate with people outside of that ghetto culture and lower class.

One of the main roots of racism in the U.S. is blaming race for issues that are really not caused by race.

06-16-2016, 11:17 AM

ummm the amount of interracial dating for starters. DC was a segregated place for DECADES and lot of it was self-selection segregation by the larger black community. Whites lived West of the Park and blacks East with 16th street as the dividing line, not one black person ever complained or protested about it..we simply did not care. Even U street was a majority black area where whites would not venture because they assume it unsafe, blacks in DC did not go around trying to prove to whites how cool an area U Street was, again we simply did not care. There are hundreds of other examples

06-16-2016, 11:21 AM

LMAO!!! DC has the most blacks making 100k percentage wise in the country, not to mention the most blacks in ownership and business. Blacks being poor is your excuse as to why Black guys aren't running after basic looking white chicks, like in L.A. or Portland? LOL. Your insecurity is showing big time. The root of racism is whites creating the "doctrine of exclusion" then the "slave codes' the the "Black codes" which created an additional 100 years of something called Jim Crow..which ended in 1970...thats the ROOT OF RACISM...not people pointing it out.

06-16-2016, 12:09 PM

In DC and Maryland, Hispanics marry Whites at a higher rate than Blacks do despite having, on the whole, lower median earnings and levels of educational attainment.

Appendix 2: State and Regional Rates | Pew Research Center

So the country's history of racial segregation obviously plays a role here. The vast majority of the African American experience in the DC area and elsewhere has been segregation. That's not the case for many immigrants who came to the U.S. in the 80s and 90s.