Anonymous asked: Can black people fetishizes white people? I have friends who say, "I only date white girls." How can I explain that it's internalized racism/help them love themselves? Nothing against interracial dating, just when it's race specific like that, I think it's pretty clearly wrong.

K: In these cases it’s not so much fetishization, since white women are put up on a pedestal and held up as the beauty standard. WoC are “othered” and therefore exoticized and fetishized. There’s a difference.

I think your friends have some internalized issues that have a lot to do with the way Western media upholds white women.