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  MamaMayowa POP + POLITICS
  My friend asked me whether or not Obama was well liked among the African-American side of my family.
  “Of course!” I exclaimed. “My family has always held a fondness for Obama. But what truly won our hearts – well, mostly for my mother and aunt—was his marriage to a dark-skinned African-American woman.”
  
  “Wow, really? Even though they’re both married to White men?” My friend was baffled. “That’s… strange.”
  Before that point, I had never thought of it as strange at all. But maybe it is. And after that, a troubling question began creeping into my mind: do some Black women hold an interracial relationship double standard?

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