OPINION: Can’t Get a Date? Go Where ‘Black’ Is Exotic

I and my writing partner, Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn are still deep in research on this stuff, but a quick impression from our interviews so far points the arrow on: the Netherlands (think Holland).

My fellow LMU college alum packed up for Holland last winter, and although she’s a California girl through and through, she’s toughing out those bitter winters and she’s not coming back to the States any time soon.  She tells me that blond and blue eyes are so bologna sandwich.  Her Nordic boyfriend treats her like fillet mignon.

Germany: Apparently it’s one of the most welcoming places to date and mate internationally.

The Balkans: Now that’s a new one for me, but Clelland is getting pretty hot and heavy with a Serb and it looks like she’ll be packing and waving adios to Spain in the near future.

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Christelyn D. Karazin founder and organizer of “No Wedding, No Womb,” an initiative to find solutions to the 72 percent out-of-wedlock rate in the black community.  She is the co-author of Swirling: How to Date, Mate and Relate Mixing Race Culture and Creed and runs a blog, www.beyondblackwhite.com, dedicated to women of color who are interested and or involved in interracial and intercultural relationships.