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Many prominent blacks — including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, civil rights leader Julian Bond and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun — have married whites. Well-known whites who have married blacks include former Defense Secretary William Cohen and actor Robert DeNiro.

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John Kerry married and African woman.

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Many prominent blacks — including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, civil rights leader Julian Bond and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun — have married whites. Well-known whites who have married blacks include former Defense Secretary William Cohen and actor Robert DeNiro.

To state the obvious, in the absence of racial discrimination a black (of either sex) would be equally likely as a white to marry a white, and less likely to marry a black than a white since there are more white potential mates than black ones.

Equally obvious is the fact that that is not the observed reality. But it might be expected that since blacks have historically been accorded less status than whites, the opportunity and hence the rate of intermarriage would be higher among higher-status blacks than among the black population at large. And it could be anticipated that the black population at large would look askance at that . . .