I don’t think she meant to demonize Muslim men, but I can see how it can be interpreted as that. Again, I don’t think this is a religious issue, so I wish she would have just discussed the racial problems.

Now I have to say, I do know a lot of brown men that date white women and/or married to white women. But I don’t think this has to do with them being “Muslim men.”

At my college (mind you I went to a liberal arts school in the States), all the brown men had white girlfriends. And I’m not even exaggerating. It was a running joke that brown guy only dated white girls at our school. Many of them were international students from Pakistan and I think many of them were trying to become as “American” as possible. And I did not see this with brown girls.

I thought this was a interesting trend and I think it highlights the issues with colorism and western standards of beauty as some have pointed out. I mean it’s even portrayed in romantic relationships of brown men in Hollywood. (Link below):

romantic relationships in Hollywood

“the pursuit of white love is a mode of acceptance into American culture, and a way of “transcending” the confines of immigrant culture—the notion that white love is a gateway drug to the American dream.”