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ORIGINAL: Tslaveboy

I was at a BDSM function with some friends (of varied ethnic/racial backgrounds) and a caucasian Master walked by with his black female slave. Some of my black friends told me that seeing a white master and black slave disturbed them.

I've recently met a black woman who wants to be my slave and I was wondering how this would be handled in public situations. Are there different rules in black/white D/s situations that are different from D/s relations where both partners are of the same ethnic/racial background?

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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl
there are several reasons why i never dated inside my race but i'll give you two (1) how i grew up and (2) the way i present myself as a woman.  i won't say all but many that i've become friends with don't want to date me because i grow up in around or in mix racial neighborhoods, i was taught to speak English (not Ebonics or slang) and groomed to be a lady (yep did the debutante thing and all that).

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most of my life i've lived in a white neighborhood, went to the best schools in that area, surrounded myself with white, hispanic, and asian friends (i had a few black ones) and plus most of my relatives are white or bi-racial

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so that's where "i'm too white for my own race" comes from.  many see me as a "white" woman and not as a Black woman. ironically, in the neighborhood i live now, i'm viewed as a "white" woman because i don't sit on the porch smoking, drinking or have loud parties all weekend long.  in my neigborhood, men avoid me like the plague ...women despise me.

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finding a black man compatible to me is like finding a needle in the haystack. i've been on other dating sites ...yes they'll talk a good game but most just want/expect sex after the first date. many don't want a woman who's independent, speaks her mind, etc etc - some take that Bible verse to heart - "wives obey your husbands in all things" and skip the rest. they want to be in charge  "do as i say, woman, not as i do"

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we still have a long way to go

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ORIGINAL: FullfigRIMAAM1

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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl
there are several reasons why i never dated inside my race but i'll give you two (1) how i grew up and (2) the way i present myself as a woman.  i won't say all but many that i've become friends with don't want to date me because i grow up in around or in mix racial neighborhoods, i was taught to speak English (not Ebonics or slang) and groomed to be a lady (yep did the debutante thing and all that).

It's a good thing you said this yourself.   Must be a burden having to go through life constantly needing to prove that you are more like white folks and therefore not as uncouth as the rest of the people who look like you. 

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most of my life i've lived in a white neighborhood, went to the best schools in that area, surrounded myself with white, hispanic, and asian friends (i had a few black ones) and plus most of my relatives are white or bi-racial

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so that's where "i'm too white for my own race" comes from.  many see me as a "white" woman and not as a Black woman. ironically, in the neighborhood i live now, i'm viewed as a "white" woman because i don't sit on the porch smoking, drinking or have loud parties all weekend long.  in my neigborhood, men avoid me like the plague ...women despise me.

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finding a black man compatible to me is like finding a needle in the haystack. i've been on other dating sites ...yes they'll talk a good game but most just want/expect sex after the first date. many don't want a woman who's independent, speaks her mind, etc etc - some take that Bible verse to heart - "wives obey your husbands in all things" and skip the rest. they want to be in charge  "do as i say, woman, not as i do"

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I've not been all over the US, but know that in those counties around DC, and any other city for that matter, where there are high net worth black families, you wouldn't feel too "cultured."   
And what makes you think that growing up around whites, and learning about that culture makes you more "cultured"  or relevant than any other group and their culture?

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I'm also curious as to why you and your cultured self, live in such a poor neighborhood now with people doing nothing, except playing loud music and sitting outside smoking.     I'm not in a wealthy neighborhood, and the blacks and hispanics here don't live that way.     M

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ORIGINAL: LordRiga

Absolutely nothing wrong with a White Man owning several black slaves, not like they will be picking cotton anytime soon any longer.. All the black men want is token white girls because they do everything when the black women dont. But nothing wrong with their slavery.

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ORIGINAL: LordRiga

All the black men want is token white girls because they do everything when the black women dont.

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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl

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ORIGINAL: FullfigRIMAAM1

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ORIGINAL: sambamanslilgirl
there are several reasons why i never dated inside my race but i'll give you two (1) how i grew up and (2) the way i present myself as a woman.  i won't say all but many that i've become friends with don't want to date me because i grow up in around or in mix racial neighborhoods, i was taught to speak English (not Ebonics or slang) and groomed to be a lady (yep did the debutante thing and all that).

It's a good thing you said this yourself.   Must be a burden having to go through life constantly needing to prove that you are more like white folks and therefore not as uncouth as the rest of the people who look like you. 

who said i had the need to prove myself more like white folks? i would rather have my own identity like oldest has now when i was her age. however my parents joined the clubs and i got tagged along for the ride. i HATED living in the "bubble". to me it wasn't real but i had to play the role and act the part  because it was the "in" to do - join the right clubs, have the right friends and be as your parents hope you become

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you need to hang around my neighborhood sometimes. not a day goes by when i hear "hey white woman! where are you going today ...off to the library? hey can i date your white um?"  it's wrong for you to presume that i'm viewing myself as a white woman - actually i'm multi-racial. i'm raising my girls almost (sans the debutante / teas crap) the same way i was - to be educated and cultured young women.

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i've never looked down on my Black men - have never found one who is compatible to me and meets my standards.

as for the Bible verse, i'm marrying my pet - he'll obey me. and it wouldn't make me any compatible with a black man simply because i'm black and submissive. i don't mix religion with BDSM and vice versa.

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cultured as in going to art museums, operas, plays, musicials - my parents devoted time to my upbringing ...giving me a well-round childhood. it has nothing to do with growing up in a white neighborhood - i just happened to attend the best schools where i was the noticeable minority amongst the student population. i never grew up where the majority was Black. i never attend schools (until college) were i was the majority

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i live in Chicago and why i live in a "poor" neighborhood - well, really it's none of your business but i'll answer to satisfy your curious mind. the rents here are high - the 2 bedroom i live now would be 4 times high in a upscale neighborhood. affordable housing is an oxymoronic phrase around here. it might be a "poor" neighborhood but at least i'm walking distance my youngest charter school ...public transportation runs 24/7 and close to the hospital in case my oldest needs emergency care. at the present, i'm planning to move and since i don't have a car - looking for a place near public transportation.

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There is a certain amount of time you waste being angry.    Than you have to decide whether it's productive to go around hating yourself, or other people for treating you ignorantly, or to dispose of the bullshit you've learned at home or on the streets that are no longer useful...   Than you meet wonderful people inside and outside of your family, who show humanity beyond what you ever imagined a human capable, and you realize that people simply are, and it's each person's choice to live in a way that honors all, or only separates self from others.

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ORIGINAL: Tslaveboy
It's very nice if people look past the exterior into the depths of each person's soul. But many of us are visual creatures.

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ORIGINAL: lronitulstahp

i have been with brilliant men, at the top of ther respective careers.  The TDHO is one of the most educated, cultured, intellegent, articulate well-spoken men i have ever met.  i choose to follow Him for those reasons...not His Caramel sexiness.  Were He a white guy, with all the same attributes...i'd have done the same.  That being said, there is a certain level of understanding, and explaining i don't have to do because we do share a common culture. 

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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida
I highlighted the above because having spent all day yesterday watching movies in my living room and talking with the (black) man I'm recently seeing, I came to realize I feel like such a foreigner to his culture, and it intimidated me.  This man is gorgeous, sexy, intelligent and very kind.  And yet there seem to be so many areas I don't relate to him with and I wonder if that will eventually become a barrier to us developing anything further.  Now I realize we create our own barriers, but I have honestly never felt this disconnected from someone else's upbringing and way of life.  I would very much appreciate anything anyone can advise me about this.  I've never cared what pigmentation someone was born with, but I also never considered how different our cultures may be.