Racism in online dating

“ we’re thinking about Black women trying to find a Black partner, I think that there is a lot of talk about the hardness of it all,” says Giitou Neor, a therapist and licensed medical social worker based in New York. Both online and IRL, Black women are navigating a dating world filled with microaggressions, colorism, and outright racism.īlack women are the demographic most likely to be unmarried, per a 2019 Pew Research analysis. The dating landscape for Black women is often bleak and unwelcoming.

“I just got it stuck in my head that no matter what, there’s a chance that this person’s family’s not going to like me, and that means that I’m not worth considering as a real partner because of my race,” she says.Ĭrawford’s experience isn't rare, unfortunately.