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A lot of Black men who grew up in these diverse communities love to say, “Black girls never liked me.” But it wasn’t all Black girls, It was the few they had crushes on who didn’t want them back. And usually, those same Black girls were in the same situation, liking the Black boys who were chasing after the white, Asian, or Latina girls in school. So what you really had was two wounded Black kids blaming each other while both dealing with the same rejection in a system that taught them to look everywhere but at each other. So now you’ve got generations of Black men and women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s still walking around saying, “Black men never wanted me” or “Black women didn’t like me,” when in reality, y’all were just trying to get validation from the same small,