Just check anything but black...

I joined Chemistry.com earlier this month. I've joined most online sites at different times in my life: Yahoo, eHarmony, Match. So I decided to give Chemistry a try and it's okay. Like eHarmony you can't search profiles, the company sends them to you. Like all dating sites, many of them men don't take time to actually write a decent personal statement, but the ratio of decent statements to crappy ones is fairly high.

Chemistry.com, however, needs to fix their search algorithms. On dating sites you get to pick the ethnicity of the people you're interested in. (I check no preference.) Chemistry keeps sending me guys who are interested in the following:

American Indian or Alaska Native
Asian
White/Caucasian
Hispanic/Latino or Spanish origin

Notice what's missing? I've written Chemistry twice letting them know that they keep sending me guys that aren't interested in women of my race. I've received two stock answers: "Please trust we are currently working on this problem and hope to have any trouble resolved soon. Thank you for your patience."

The "ethnic preference" info is at the bottom of profiles so you read through the whole thing before realizing that the guy doesn't want black girls. I've taken to scrolling to the bottom first so I can archive them right away.

It's a pain (and painful) and I'm not going to renew my subscription.

My friends and I joke that they should just create a check box for "Anything but Black." That way there won't be any confusion.