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It's interesting how many of the responses to this letter are openly hostile. Now, it's possible the letter writer is a bit, well, "full of herself" -- I don't know. But it's also possible that she's right in her self-assessment and she's simply being honest. If a woman is smart, attractive, accomplished, and unafraid to speak her mind, men think she's a bitch. Doesn't matter what color she is.
I suspect this woman's problem is as much that she is intelligent, as that she's black and evidently many black men don't want to date black women. A woman who is smart and funny can look like a model and still drive men away, because so many men are so insecure.
One piece of advice for the letter writer: I'm white and I met my husband, who's Asian, through a somewhat high-end (OK, expensive) dating service. Be open to dating services and definitely be open to other races. You never know.
