Why do “conscious” Black people date/marry White people?

I see it a lot and it’s even a running joke. The Black person who is all about the Black community and reads all the books by and about W.E.B DuBois and Malcolm X and Maya Angelou and Frederick Douglass and Toni Morrison and can’t stand Clarence Thomas and is into conscious hip-hop and preserving HBCUs all of that…ends up marrying a White person. Sometimes they mostly date White people. I have seen conscious Black men and women do this.

You can be with whomever you want, but it seems that they’d be the last people to want to have romantic relationships with a White person.