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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Nonetheless, I do think the gender role expectations are somewhat different in the Black Community than it is in mine, and I'd want to be sure that my dd wasn't going out with a guy who had different values about how we treat women than I do. Frankly, I do think I'm more likely to encounter that with a young black boy today than I am from an Indian boy whose parents are fresh off the boat."

AA, mixed, for professional reasons knows many, many people from India. Wrong, PP, sorry.

And also, look at how many black women are in college vs black men. There are more women. So no, I would say that your perceptions are a bit off. You need to turn off Real Housewives of Atlanta, sweetie. Most educated AAs have very contemporary, normal, American lives and women are not at home, barefoot in the kitchen with 5 kids, responding to "ho get my beer."[/quote]

That's probably true. But unless DD has some preferences she hasn't yet revealed to me, she's not going to be dating those black women in college, is she? I'm not really sure what it says about the fact that most of her black male peers aren't going to college, but that doesn't really sway me to change my mind. She wants to date a college-bound black boy? I'm totally cool with that; the issues about gender role expectations are totally different between the Black community and an Muslim community. It would totally depend on the circumstance.

Let's not forget I was trying to explain what I saw as a possible rationale for another poster's response. I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that the record for African Americans on women's rights lags that of white people. Read Maya Angelou or bell hooks sometime.[/quote]

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