Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black woman and say, 'Look how beautiful she is.'" Other Negro girls are more leary. Huffs a Manhattan Negro career girl: "The 'black is beautiful' idea has affected very few Negro males. They still think that kinky hair and Negro lips are unattractive. A white woman is still a status symbol. It is for my brother. He married...
...Rockefeller aide. "There's a point where they break down." Adds Rodgers: "There is always the same question when a girl agrees to date: Is it me, or the 'difference' she's interested in?" Says a Howard University graduate: "I've dated two white boys, but I don't think I'd be comfortable any more. I think what really did it was when one of the white guys proposed to me. I asked myself why I was so scared? Was it because he was white or because I wasn't really...
...been brought up under." The beliefs didn't carry her far enough. The one time that her black beau took her to a Negro hangout, she found "the language was incredible. But he couldn't say anything because then he would be labeled a 'white nigger.' " Adds Georgia sadly: "I guess the real problem was me. I didn't belong in his world...
...Whole Bit. But many couples insist that they do belong in the same world. Says San Francisco Negro Drama Student Toni Johns, 20: "I feel proud that I can date white boys, that my companion can do it, that we have no hang-ups, that we have enough sense and our heads are in the right place." And when it is a case of true love, the reaction can be fiery. Says Seattle Negro Musician Ernie Hatfield, 18, of his white fiancee: "We're not trying to prove anything. We love each other, that...
U.C.L.A. Co-ed Jacqueline Thomas, a Negro, appraises her experience more poignantly: "I've gone through the whole bit. There was a time when I was 'thinking white' like everyone else; then I went through a period of hating everybody. I've come to the conclusion that there are always a few people who understand you and know how you feel. When you find them, it doesn't matter what they are-red, black, white, or whatever-you've got to take a chance with those people...