This article was practically written to cause a dumpster fire. Question remains, why are black men more reluctant to donate sperm compared to white men? Lack of access? Shame? Or do the kinds of women who have the wealth to shop for a sperm donor generally prefer white sperm, even when they're black women themselves?
"We didn't have a lot to choose from, he definitely wasn't Black," Brat told The Root in an interview published last week.
The couple, who married in February 2022, said that they started with a few thousand candidates, but once they ruled some out based on Dupart's genetic screening, they were left with 300 potential donors, and only one was Black.
Brat said that the man "looked like Jiminy Cricket," adding: "I was like, "I'm sorry but that wasn't gonna be my choice."
The Chicago rapper added that despite the lack of suitable donors, she thinks she and Dupart made the right choice.
"I think we did a great job with picking," she said. "He's handsome, he's tall and I think he's going to look beautiful with my wife's egg."
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On Tuesday, Dupart took to Instagram to hit back at criticism that she and Brat didn't want a Black child.
"Black men make up less than 5% of the donation pool," she wrote in the comments section of a post from Baller Alert sharing the news of the couple's choice of donor.
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Brat, 49, and Dupart, 41, first announced that they were expecting in February.
In an interview with People, they detailed the difficulties of their fertility journey, revealing that a few days after their first embryo transfer, the pregnancy miscarried.
Rapper Da Brat says she and her wife chose a white sperm donor because the only Black donor presented to them 'looked like Jiminy Cricket'
"We didn't have a lot to choose from," Brat said, adding that out of thousands of potential donors, only one Black donor was suitable.www.yahoo.com
