Some celebs, like Keri Hilson, gave thoughtful answers to explain her dating proclivities (she prefers dark chocolate men), while others like Yung Berg, Jon B and Kanye West make you scratch your heads as their brutal honesty (some would say stupidity) spills into print. Still others, such as Dennis Rodman and Whoopi Goldberg, date whites exclusively only because their black sisters and brothers repeatedly rejected them throughout their childhoods.
Recent quotes from celebs on why they date outside the race or have peculiar preferences within the race were compiled by Complex magazine, which procured the celebrity quotes from a variety of magazines in recent years. –terry shropshire
Brace yourself for some of these answers:
Halle Berry: I tried black men. I tried. I married two black men. You know I tried. I don’t hold all black males responsible because of two bad eggs I got. I even dated black men after my last divorce, but this is just where I found love.
Yung Berg: I’m kinda racist! I don’t really like dark butts too much. It’s rare that I do dark butts. Like really rare! It’s like, no darker than me. I love the pool test. If you can be like, ‘Yo, baby. I met you in the club. Let’s go back to my house and jump in the pool exactly like you are.’ And [if] you don’t come [out] looking better wet than you were before you got in the pool, then that’s not a good look. Any girls that use brown gel to lay down her baby hair is not poppin’.
Dennis Rodman: I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. I’ve had them come up to me and say, `Why don’t you date a black woman?’ Black women didn’t accept me when I was younger. I wasn’t attractive. I didn’t have money or fancy clothes. I wasn’t whatever it was they wanted.
Jon B: It’s not that I prefer black girls, but that’s who I find myself relating to as a human being. I am also attracted to really ghetto girls, straight out the ‘hood … a thickey, a real ‘pass the hot sauce’ type girl.
Polow Da Don: There was a stage in my life where I went crazy with dating white women. I have nothing against black women, but they’re raised differently. White women are raised to respect and serve their men. Black women are taught to question [their men]. Black women look at submission as being weak. White women look at submission as being a woman. And anyone who has a problem with this statement is ignorant.
Kanye West: If it wasn’t for race mixing, there would be no video girls. Me and most of my friends like mutts a lot … yeah in the ‘hood they call them mutts.
Amanda Bynes, via Twitter: It’s amazing how good it feels when someone knows how to love your body! I am having withdrawals from a certain guy lol 🙂 … so turns out i prefer chocolate over vanilla…interesting.” and “FYI If any girls are mad that I like “chocolate” they need to seriously get OVER it. sorry you can’t have chocolate for yourself 🙂 … So quit hating on me because I’m VANILLA and I like CHOCOLATE, ok? Because it makes you look like a hater 🙂 thanks so much, bye!!! 🙂
Whoopi Goldberg: First off, I have dated black men. But a woman with power is a problem for any man, but particularly a black man, because it’s hard for them to get power. I understand that, but I have to have a life, and that means dating the men that want to date me.
Keri Hilson: “I like chocolate candy, chocolate men.” Asked if she ever ‘played in the snow’, Hilson responded, “I never have. It’s a preference.”
