I am often asked when it was that I started dating black men, and as I look back in grade school my best friend was black. We spent many of slumber parties trying out the latest Michael Jackson moves. We had matching penny loafers and she even had the white glittery glove. Soon my parents and I moved where we spent 5 years in NM which had a very small population of black students in the school, if anything I was the minority being white in a school of Hispanics. It taught me to be very accepting of other cultures.
While in high school my family moved back to Oregon which again in my school in the suburbs of Portland did not have a large black population. My junior year was spent living with a family in Japan. Talk about a minority I was the only American in a city of 450,000 people. I came home and was very accepting of others, I did not see people for their color just who they were. I went on to marry a white man who I was married to for 10 years. We had 3 daughters together before getting divorced. 
It was after my divorce when I was a bit hesitant to date anyone that I became friends with a black guy from NY who had moved to Oregon. We were friends for many months before we ever became involved intimately. I realized that I had always had an attraction to black men; I had just never really met any that I became close to. It was the smooth dark skin, and the aura of confidence that white men did not have that was so attractive to me. As I continued to be single I dated both black and white men but nothing serious. However I started seeing a pattern that became very obvious and was even more apparent with my girlfriends. One day my friend asked me
“What is it about you? If there is a black man within a mile he can somehow seek you out!”
Which this was true, I had noticed this but never realized why. I tried to date white men, but the ones that were attracted to me definitely weren’t my type and the ones I was interested in wanted nothing to do with me.
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