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AirTalk

White boys can't jump, but it's OK to bring them home

By AirTalk Staff
Published Mar 22, 2010
Karyn Langhore Folan to women of color--give interracial dating a try.
Karyn Langhore Folan to women of color--give interracial dating a try.
(
Simon & Schuster
)
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White boys can't jump, but it's OK to bring them home
Is love blind? Harvard-educated attorney Karyn Langhorne Folan is an African-American woman married to a white man. She wonders why otherwise open-minded women of color are often closed to the idea of interracial dating. Is dating white men the ultimate symbol of freedom of choice and progress for black women—or of self-hatred and voluntary subjugation? Folan argues, maybe he can’t jump, but he’s pretty fly for a white guy.

Is love blind? Harvard-educated attorney Karyn Langhorne Folan is an African-American woman married to a white man. She wonders why otherwise open-minded women of color are often closed to the idea of interracial dating. Is dating white men the ultimate symbol of freedom of choice and progress for black women—or of self-hatred and voluntary subjugation? Folan argues, maybe he can’t jump, but he’s pretty fly for a white guy.

Guest:

Karyn Langhorne Folan, author, Don’t Bring Home a White Boy: and Other Notions That Keep Black Women from Dating Out (Gallery Books)