Editor’s note: Meet. Assess attraction. Court her. (Or him. Or them.) Confess emotions. Discuss monogamy. Marry, perhaps. Make infants, if you’d like. In a variety of ways, the mechanics of dating are universal, whether or not you’re black colored, white, brown or “a colorless person,” as Raven-Symone famously described by herself to Oprah in a 2014 meeting.