Reversing the Trend, Time Magazine Says White Women Aren't Racist for Preferring to Date White Men

Last month I pointed out a double standard between white and black users of online dating sites: white women who indicate a preference for white men are labeled "racist" and "morally repugnant," while black women who prefer to date black men face no such rebuke (in fact, there are several dating sites exclusively for black singles).

In the article Seeking My Race-Based Valentine Online, which appears in the February 22 issue of Time, Jenée Desmond-Harris calls attention to the double standard and affirms that preferring to date a partner of the same-race doesn't make you a racist:

But do racial preferences amount to racism? Or is overlooking an entire ethnicity as innocuous as filtering out redheads or people under a certain height? "Just because you take race into consideration in your dating preferences and are aware of race doesn't make you racist," says Dr. Nicole Coleman, a psychology professor at the University of Houston. Minorities who prefer to date within their own race or ethnicity — and who look for potential mates on niche sites like BlackPeopleMeet.com and Amor.com — would probably agree with her.

The Media Finally Notice That the Eve Carson Murder Was an Interracial Crime

After University of North Carolina student Eve Carson was murdered in March, 2008, nobody in the media pointed out that the white student body president had been murdered by two black males.

But now that one of her killers is claiming he was the victim of racism and asking for leniency, the media have finally caught on to the interracial nature of the crime.

Attorneys for Demario Atwater allege "the overriding reason that Mr. Atwater was indicted in federal court was that he was a young, black male accused of killing a young, white female."

Atwater and his accomplice, Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr, kidnapped Carson from her home and made her withdraw money from several ATMs before shooting her five times. The cause of death was a shotgun blast that passed through Carson's right hand and entered her right temple.

Last year, Democrats in North Carolina passed the Racial Justice Act, which makes it easier for black killers like Atwater to play the race card and avoid the death sentence they rightly deserve.


Although Eve Carson was shot five times, the autopsy report showed that the cause of death was a single shotgun shot which passed through her right hand - which she had raised to protect herself - and entered her temple.