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I'm attracted to black guys and my parents think I'm disgusting?

I'm 18. I live at home. I work 3 fantastic jobs. I go to college full time. I manage a 4.0 gpa. I don't party, drink, or smoke. I'm just attracted to black guys. I dated a black guy for 2 years in high school and the summer before college my parents told me I had to break up with him if I want to live with them and be accepted by my family. They said they had enough of my "nonsense." So I ended things with him and I was heart broken. I've tried dating numerous white guys. I even have gone out with guys my parents hand picked for me. All of the white guys are handsome, kind, and treat me like a princess but I'm just not attracted to them. I recently met a black guy who is a senior in high school. He has a full ride to college and is about to graduate at the top of his class as valedictorian. He's also playing division 1 football at a Big Ten school and is on espn's list for being one of the top football recruits in the nation. He treats me great and makes me very happy. We recently started getting more serious, but my parents don't even know he exists. I have to sneak around to see him. I like him so much. I couldn't ask for a better guy in my life. But when I come home to my family, their racist comments about things they see on television or in public hurt me badly. They used to call me disgusting for dating the boy I dated in high school and that I should be ashamed of myself. I don't know what to do. I'm not attracted to white guys like they want me to be. My parents even told me they'd rather me be lesbian. I don't do anything wrong. I follow all their rules and do everything they ask. I just like black guys. I try my best to be their perfect daughter but apparently me being attracted to black guys makes me a bad kid. How am I supposed to tell my parents I'm attracted to black guys and that I have a new black boyfriend? I can't move out because every time I've tried they take the keys to my car and my phone and lock me in my room. I'm sick of being single and dating people I don't want to date to make my parents happy. It hurts me so badly that I can't make my parents happy or proud just because I dated a black guy. I don't know what to do. I'm confused and frustrated. Its pushed me to a point of tears. I can't control this attraction. How can I get my parents to understand me?

Its not that I'm racist towards white guys, I'm just not attracted to them. I'm not eliminating them as options, but even some of the nicest and best looking white guys haven't really caught my attention. I'm not racists towards any particular race. I just am more attracted to black guys than white.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    It's fine. Lots of girls I know love black guys and are dating them. I know I am . :)

  • 8 years ago

    hi there! I kind of know how you feel, although my parents didn't have the problem, but the rest of my family did. I always told my mother I was going to marry someone like zorro or alladin (dark skin, eyes etc.) so when I came home with a Portuguese guy, it wasn't a shock. The rest of my family, however had a massive problem and now regard my marraige as interracial and disgusting. They also don't like my kids. All I can say, is keep on going out with that guy. I don't think it's that you gow for black men spycifically, I just think they are the nice guys you have happened to meet. If you love this guy, then go for him and don't let people who are stuck in the past get in your way.

  • 8 years ago

    You have a preference and that is just fine.

    You're parents won't accept you dating a black guy unless you do something even worth in there eyes.

    That's how I got my parents to let me be.

    I pretend to be gay for a week.

    My mother wanted to kill me.

    When she finally was ready to disown me, she said she would rather let me marry some white girl than be gay.

    Than I dropped it. She never complained again.

    That's one solution.

    Another would be. Keep him a secret till you move out. Family is important. You build your own family, true. But some are with you since birth by blood. You need them. Once you move out you can stop hiding him.

    Don't worry about the future like marriage and how you're going to tell your parents. Worry about it when the time comes.

    Live in the now.

  • 8 years ago

    Well, you are now an adult and you can pretty much do what you want other than date a black man simply because your parents are prejudiced .At this moment since you are still under your parents roof they won't allow this.So the only thing you can do is move out.If you do this don't tell your parents until you have moved, have your car keys in hand,and hide your telephone.Call them and tell them that you have moved and that way they can't lock you in your room.You will never get your parents to understand because they don't want to. They might disown you but if you have your heart set on dating black men that is your business.Good luck to you.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    If you love him, you won't let your parent's racism get between your relationship.

  • 8 years ago

    what race are you may i ask?

    Also it's your choice on who you wish to date your parents can not change who you are attracted too that is your view but many try harder to get your parents to understand and be honest and you shouldn't sneak behind their back.

    But i respect you for keeping to what you want and not what your parents want.

  • Lotus
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Your parents are being selfish. They're only thinking about themselves and their image. They're only concerned about the consequences of you dating someone outside of your race, and are probably only worried about what others will think about you, and your family.

    It's pure selfishness, and I see it a lot.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The words race and ethnicity are subjectively derived, a contemporary cultural construct, an adjunct, or what is known in Hinduism as an Upadhi, which can also be used to divide the minds of formatory thinkers.

    Colours do not exist, they are mental constructs.

    Some tribes can't differentiate the difference between shades of blue and green, they even use the same word for the two colours.

    Humans see 3 colours through the R.G & B spectrum.

    The Mantis shrimp see's through a 12 colour spectrum.

    In fact all the senses construct this materially pervasive paradigm.

    Case in point: the Himba tribe of remote northern Namibia, to whom water looks “white” like milk and the sky looks “black” like coal, and who struggle to distinguish between blue and green, yet can easily pick out micro-shades which Americans cannot see.

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread749732/p...

    Identifying life and human beings in an objective, empirically derived and formatory way gives rise to misery (Doctrine), it also indicates the possibility of still being subjugated/subverted with words and deluded from the days of colonial rule.

    Human beings have mindful volition and free will, consciousness and conscience.

    Humanity is not a race, nor is it altruistic.

    Humanity is the pure of heart in regards to the compassion we feel, and can be defined by our humility and selfless action, like feeling the need to care. It can also be defined by how we overcome adversity.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Sweetheart, have you ever heard the phrase "love is blind"? Well, I've got news for you. Love is color blind, as well. No one can help who they love. I hope your folks learn this very quickly. There should be peace in the family, but not at the expense of your happiness. You have my sympathy, and my best wishes.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Keep dating the black guy. It your choice, not your parents.

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