I suggest that this is not such a simple issue, because the babies in question would still have to deal with structural racism later in life. So would the chil

I suggest that this is not such a simple issue, because the babies in question would still have to deal with structural racism later in life. So would the children of two black parents. So no benefit there. ...and preferring someone of your own race is now an 'extremely specific qualification'...and you think I've lost the thread? Given that 20% of the people who want this will be forever alone, yes it is. The hypothetical problem I presented was 'Dad, quite a lot of people express hostility towards me on the basis that I'm black. Help me out.' as opposed to... I'll remind you that you asked whether I would "Tell him that it's a solved problem" - recall that according to me, the solved problem is "I want to date a person satisfying $rare_condition but I can't find such people, so now I'm forever alone". Has nothing to do with third parties being unkind. Also note: a black parent can't fix racism by third parties either. So again, no benefit to intra-racial marriage. What I said was that you don't seem to have through through the sort of problems that your offspring would be likely to encounter; my thesis is that this lack of apparent concern...family formation... I'm not quite sure why you come to the conclusion that either I or family oriented non-black men have not thought through some particular problem. Could you explain? (My post is fairly agnostic on this issue, which is why my attempt at a charitable interpretation led me in the direction of shared experiences.)