Interracial Love Magazine: Interracial Love Magazine - Perhaps The Only Site of It's Kind?

When I was growing up in Massachusetts, your goal as a teen was to "blend in" in order to avoid being targeted for fights and ridicule.

I officially became a teenager in 1982. It was a phenomenal era for music. Stephanie Mills, Shalamar, Cherrelle, SOS Band, Atlantic Starr, and Patrice Rushen were the background music to my life at the time. My family probably viewed me as odd for some of my musical tastes. My Dad loved music, but when I looked in his collection, I rarely saw anything of color there. I went through his huge pile of '45's, definitely no Dionne Warwick, Mary Wells, Marvelettes, or Shirelles to be found there.

Living in the far reaches of Boston's suburbs, interracial dating was not allowed. period. If you can recall any details about race relations in that period, it was tense.

As I began to take notice of women, again, my tastes were unusual. I often watched Soul Train in those days. MTV did not begin airing until sometime after, so Soul Train was my only way of seeing the musicians I heard during radio's post-disco era. During the dance sequences, beautiful black women were grinding and spinning to the latest jam by a Melba Moore, Teena Marie, Evelyn Champagne King, or Cheryl Lynn. Where were these women? I knew they existed, but they sure didn't go to my schools.

The demographic of my school was about 90% white or better. So, outside of a few blacks, the remainder was made up of Vietnamese, Dominicans, and Puerto Ricans. The lunch room was segregated and rarely did any of the minorities integrate with the rest of the whites. Our sports teams were all white as well.

Unfortunately, for me, my young teenage era was spent with lust over a fully-developed-for-her-years Puerto Rican girl named Sylvia. She was gorgeous. She was a dark bronze, with round hips, a tight stomache, and beautiful legs. It would be a precursor for things to come.

She made a point of ignoring the subtle attention I would bestow upon her when no one else was around; because she knew what the consequences would be for her and I. After about a year, we exchanged phone numbers and spoke on the phone for hours.

After I graduated High School, joined the Navy, and headed south, I was not going to let anything keep me from what I wanted. Almost 25 years later, I can say I have dated, married, and had children exclusively with black women my entire adult life.

The reason I chose to create Interracial Love Magazine was because it would provide me an outlet for my feelings on the past, present, and future status of whites and blacks. I admit, I can be somewhat sensitive to America's history of racism and oppression. I admit I can be very critical of elements within white and black culture that works to drive us apart.

So, I chose interracial dating between black women and white men as my primary focus. Nothing defies America's social taboos like interracial dating.

Because of my dating history and blog, does that mean I feel like there should be a day set aside on the calendar for me or a statue created in my honor? No.

It isn't about notoriety. It's about tearing down age-old stereotypes and myths that prevent black women and white men from initiating meaningful relationships with one another.

It's about letting black women know that we love their big booties and are not looking for a "Black Barbie." It's about letting white men know that black women make very supportive wives and mothers.

We like to interact with other black women and white men on social media sites like Twitter, and some of our comments and opinions definitely cause a stir! For many black women especially, they are sometimes uncomfortable with our views and can be quick to dismiss them as being overtly random or reckless.

Interracial Love Magazine will live on. We feel we have to be "that voice."

We want you to subscribe to us and interact with the rest of the community on here. As a white male or black female, (yes, we do get a lot of traffic from black men too), we know you have a unique experience to share. So, we welcome your comments on some of these issues.

And if you want to write an article to share with our audience, we welcome that too.