Why do some non‑Black guys say they love ‘chocolate’ girls but date lighter‑skinned Black women instead?

[Anonymous]

Especially this skin tone right here not chocolate

[HollyK21]

Probably because to them, this is chocolate. I find that word alone to be these specific white men misusing a popular AAVE phrase as a way to say they prefer black women in general.

[choco-latte]

I guess some people could interpret that as a shade of chocolate, like milk chocolate.

[Anonymous]

Why would Abbycado go anon to leave such a totally mundane response like that? It makes no sense for someone who is always calling anons cowards!

[Asker]

Where I don’t see her comment?

[Opinion Owner]

Hi saxavxxx. The 18-24 pink anon comment is Abbycado.

[Asker]

This not saxsvaxx

[Iron_Man]

Because they look white kind of and they’re half white I’m guessing that’s their decision

[texasgirl012]

She's multi-ethnic, and probably not even majority Black given her family history. Looks kind of milk chocolate to me. She's Trini and Indian ethnicity too, and her Black ancestry is probably mixed. I totally don't blame white guys for liking Black women; I'm into a certain kind of Black as well so how could I criticize? We like what we like. I lke white for my boyfriend and he's a 10/10 but I still need that other thing some Blacks have. But Black doesn't mean skin tone - it means people categorized by a race, even though it's often not what their genetics says. And you can't make race about genes, anyway. For sure for guys, identifying as Black is more predictive of that certain size we like than it is skin tone, and light skin Blacks have really big ones as much as darker skin ones. I can understand getting hung up on a man's size, I don't understand getting so hung up on skin tone but I guess people like what they like.

[Nikki1989]

They are not seeing what you are seeing.

[Anonymous]

Because that’s what they prefer.

[dudeinohio]

I actually preferred darker skinned women.