WHY DO "HARD CORE" BLACK RASTAFARIAN MEN DATE WHITE WOMEN?

“Hard Core”? I don’t know if all black Rastafarian men date white women, or that they are “hard core”, but I think I would agree that interracial -- (i.e. mainly black/white) -- relationships are generally accepted -- (or should we just say ‘tolerated’) -- by (perhaps) most “Rastafarian men”. Generally speaking, and speaking from my own personal experience, I’ve had no major problem with it and it’s personally not for me to judge. But have you considered blacks who live in places where there are virtually no black women? (Or how about Black women who marry white men for their own various reasons?). Nevertheless with time and its lessons, the reality is that multiracial relationships can tend to be more “PROBLEMATIC”, and, in the Western world (or indeed anywhere) -- especially in cases where both partners are “weak” -- very emotionally draining, challenging, scaring ... I think it is fair to say people should tend toward “racial harmony”, meaning sticking to people from their own 'ethnographic background'. In principle, therefore, I agree with you that this issue is an important one.

ANOTHER THOUGHT:

Many Black people -- NOT JUST RASTAFARIANS -- would prefer going out with a white woman to doing that with a black one, for varying reasons, all of which -- to me -- point toward dis-orientation of blacks, lack of racial organization, no reciprocal love … There are many black women married to, or preferring, whites also, and some may even have their own reasons for (REALLY) loathing black men. So I think it is fair to say the issue at hand is that black people are divided or being divided or dividing ourselves (most without really knowing that they are), or we don’t love ourselves but we hate one another with a fiery passion.

The reasons for this self-hate, which manifests itself in different forms, usually border on the material and also on the psychical, and are usually rooted in physical self-hate itself.

BUT I HAVE A QUESTION:

What kind of black do you define as black, or at least as a “dateable/marriageable black” (to you)?

(If there is some phenotypic/genetic reference to your defintion, then please break that down for me)