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| Supermodel Iman and her husband David Bowie |
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| More black women and white men are settling what some consider the final frontier of interracial marriage. Excerpts from an article by Cassandra West of the Chicago Tribune For years black women watched as black men dated and married white women, gallantly strolling down the street with them or awkwardly bringing them to family reunions. |
| Andrea and Matt Wukitsch married 2 1/2 years ago and live on the North Side. She says, with a laugh, that she used to be "that black woman looking at black men with white women, thinking 'Whaaat?" Among themselves black women have talked endlessly of the shortage of eligible black men. Now, as if to say, "enough of that", black women have begun their own silent march across the color line. In growing numbers, they are dating and marrying white men. The number of black female-white male marriages remained fairly static between 1960 and 1980, going from 26,000 to 27,000. But by 2000, the number had almost tripled, to 80,000, according to current population surveys. |
| This "quiet" revolution fueled by love," obviously is happening not only because black women have become more open to the idea of interracial relationships, white men are changing too. When I say changing, i mean losing prejudicial thoughts. They're in the office with us, at the health clubs with us. They are being confronted with the truth of who we really are. Also their attitudes, in fact, may have changed faster than black women's. |
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| Hollywood has played a huge role in the last few years. Most notably, Halle Berry won an Oscar for her role in "Monster's Ball", in which she plays a waitress who gets involved with a white man (Billy Bob Thornton) after her black husband is executed in a Georgia Prison. Last year Berry played John Travolta's girlfriend in "Swordfish", and Angela Bassett was cast as the girlfriend of Robert DeNiro in "The Score." In 1998, Berry played Warren Beatty's love interest in "Bulworth". |
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