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Actress Regina King has spoken out about black women and their supposed aversion to dating men outside their race.

She wrote on VIBE: “When you have everyone else who is willing to explore but a Black woman is like, "I want me a brother," well, if the brothers are out and they’re open to date everybody and the majority of Black women aren’t willing to look twice when a man outside of their race is sending them messages, then that makes our percentage rate lower and the chances of finding love, because we’re only looking in one specific place for finding love—with Black men."

The 40-year-old actress, who has starred in ‘24’ and ‘The Boondocks’ said that her girlfriends refuse to date men who aren’t black, she said: “They never really say it’s because he’s White, or because he’s Spanish or something like that. It’ll be more like, Well, you know he works at such and such, and our schedules don’t match.' But we’ll know really what it is. It's 'cause he’s White.”

King also goes on to say that you are more likely to see a black woman dating outsider of their race on the East Coast rather than the West. She said: “I think Black women need to open up. A lot of Black women still carry a lot of pain when they see Black men with women who aren’t Black and that’s really unfortunate that that could make us so upset. It has to do with self esteem. With women on a whole, what a man thinks about us means so much to us.”

Obviously we know Jill Scott would disagree with this but what do you think of King’s comments? Do you think she’s got it right? Are black women insecure when it comes to dating outside of their race? Or does it boil down to what you have in common and lifestyle? Tell us what you think…

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