My husband is my proof. My daughters are following in my footsteps. We out here.
Sidenote: if yall have teens, start building their network now. Encourage them to socialize with like-minded black kids of the opposite sex. Influence their preferences early. And of course, be their example. My oldest already knows to have her eyes open now (college) for potential future spouses.
My folks were on that time with all my sibs and I and now their grand kids. It's 9 of us we did the Jack and Jill set. Some girls were like your kids eyes open and some were not and wanted a street dude which was what it was.
Even among the well off black folk u gotta jump through hoops for the opposite sex. I see my younger breh going through in highschool now. I told him he will be okay. I see it walking to class down here in the A.
The standards get hella different. My Spanish tutor and I started off just what it was . Honestly one thing led to another and here we are. I didn't talk down in my own case I just went where it was interest and she happen to be Latina.