Flicking through the pages of Essence Magazines, April 2010 Issue, one thing happened to catch my eye. Now it wasn't I who read it but my older brother, Ryan, who happens to be mixed.

Now because I try to keep this place semi-PG, semi-my-mother-is-Nigerian-and-doesn’t-think-I’ll-date-until-I’m-married, and semi-one-day-my-future-husband-might-see-this, that means that I can’t include the more obscene, graphic, and detailed commentary I’ve been on the receiving end of. ” To make matters worse, it’s no secret Italian men, and Europeans in general, are rumored to have a fetish with black women, so navigating the dating scene is basically like drawing a map to Mars. I constantly have to ask myself, “ love is love, and if it were easy to find, all my 20-something year old friends back in America would be married by now. Lane is among the growing numbers of single black women involved in online dating.According to a recent News study, about 42 percent of black women have never been married twice the percentage of white women.However if you ask todays black man why he would choose to date a woman of caucasian background his answer is simple."Black women are high maintenance, needy, and can't spot a good brotha when they see it." Ok, with this being said, is it true?If you choose to relocate to New York, at least try to feign sophistication.Irish women think nothing of a two-hour trans-Atlantic phone call, but unfortunately it doesn’t end there.