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Interracial: On Black Athletes And White Women
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Interracial: On Black Athletes And White Women

This has become a cultural narrative for some reason, so let's cut to the chase.

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Ted Bauer
May 14, 2024
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A week or so ago, some D1 athlete went on TikTok — everything is apparently downstream of TikTok now — and did a rant about why black athletes choose white women instead of black women. First off, you should know this isn’t entirely true. Aaron Donald, Donovan Mitchell and some other notable African-American athletes had African-American partners/wives. Russell Wilson actually went from a white woman (the lady screaming in his NFL Draft meme) to Ciara. So, it’s not a perfect thing.

But yes, it does often seem like black men pair off with white women. Some of the themes, and that original TikTok, are in here:

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