A brief YouTube commentary answering a viewer question about how dark-skinned Black women can confidently date. The speaker advises being open to dating across racial groups (suggested personal ratio: ~40% Black men, 40% white men, 20% others), challenges assumptions that white men won't be interested, and calls attention to intra-Black colorism.
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Lilo Shun said, how do we confidently date as dark skinned black women when everybody eyes mixed or light skinned women or I think you meant likes. First of all.
If I were a darker skinned woman, I would make sure that the people I was talking to.
I would be like 40% black guys, 40% white guys, 20% other. That would be my ratio. I think sometimes darker skinned women are like thinking like these white guys are not checking for them. Girl. Those white guys are checking for you more than they're checking for the light skinned girls. So you gotta know the lane, you gotta know.
Whose type you are.
Yeah. So I would, I would just be a bit open for that. That's all I'm, that's all I'm saying. I think a lot of darker skinned women don't do that. They think, oh my gosh, I'm going to find like a, you know, a dark skinned king and please go ahead and do that. But sometimes they can be the most colorist. Yeah. So something, something to think about.