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Episcopal Minister Malcolm Boyd of Washington, D.C., observes: "It's a whole new dimension to some people. A girl who knows a white man can get to know him very well-and it gets boring. She finds the prospect of a Negro man exciting." There is no denying that for many girls, interracial dating is a very stimulating prospect. "I just think brown skin looks healthier," insists one California student. "Negro boys are carried away with pretty white faces and long flashy hair," snaps an admittedly jealous black high school girl in Washington, D.C. On some campuses with...
Mistress & Keeper. To a surprising extent, it is the white woman who is the aggressor. "Negro men are more hunted than hunter," declares Dr. Maurice F. Freehill, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington. "Black is In this year," beams a Negro Washington. D.C., student and he has been making the most of it. Handsome and athletic, he drives a Cadillac, walks a Doberman pinscher and holds court under the shade trees of Washington's Dupont Circle. He has more white girl friends than he knows what to do with. "They pass me around," he says with...
Legends of Negro sexual prowess aside, there are other drives as well. Some white girls see mixed dating as their way to break down barriers and help the Negro "overcome." Some are simply rebelling. "If a white girl wants to do her parents in," explains Dr. Lewis Yablonsky, head of the sociology department at San Fernando Valley State College, "the classic pattern is to go out with someone black...
Whatever the cause, Negro women resent the pattern, fearing that whites will steal away their most promising young men. Yet most black girls refuse to play the game with white men, who, they say scornfully, lack today's essential Quality of "soul." There is a deeper deterrent too. Many Negro girls say they are still haunted by the image of the white "massa" coming down the hill to take his pick of slave women. Observes Nancy Lou Smith, a svelte 24-year-old Manhattan career girl from Texas: "For many white males, my skin is still a badge that...
...Place Is Safe. Bill Alexander, 26, recalls that as a small boy in the Negro section of Stroudsburg, Pa., he was often offered money by white college boys who came through on the prowl for black girls. "It has been taken for granted since slavery that white men can seek out black women any time they want," he says...