“I’m not picking on you but you come across as somewhat bitter that people would defend the right to an interracial relationship.”

You took it the wrong way, but I’m not suprised. I did not mention anything negative about IR’s. Yet, of course, you mysteriously detected bitterness. Leave it up to SOMEBODY to magically pull out something from my post to make the famous “bitter about IR’s” statement (so tired).
What Common said was contradicting, I know that. But if he were a white guy, dissing white guys dating black women, this would not be a discussion. No black guys would take up for black women or THAT TYPYE of IR, no biracial/black people would take up for them either (well, maybe one or two). No one would be upset except black women and a FEW white guys.
That was what I was getting to, but like I said, I’m not suprised it was taken out of context and turned into “bitterness”; a common word that brainwashed people and sellouts like to use to describe black women. Thanks for nothin.

To be fair to Eminem: he explained that the song everyone was so upset about WAS NOT a diss on black women in general. He had had an ugly break up with his girlfriend–who was black–and in his hurt and anger he wrote that song. In other words, it was specificly directed towards her. Plus, it’s also an old song–not something he did recently. I don’t see Hollywood or movie audiences holding Ice Cube to anything he may have said about white people during his N.W.A. days, so let’s be careful when we talk about double standards.

You feel that white women are the majority? They aren’t anymore. There has been an exponential growth of the Black & Hispanic population in America over the last decade or so. The number of non-Hispanic whites in this country is dwindling, slowly but surely. People like Halle Berry, Beyonce, and J-Lo have replaced the Christie Brinkleys & Heather Locklears. Compare America in the 1980’s to what it is now. White people are the minorities today, if you ask me. We haven’t had a Black president or a female president yet, but America has definitely come a long way from what it used to be.

I have nothing against Common or his work. I’m not in total agreement with his views but they’re his. And people have spoken out in defense of Black women concerning Eminem’s comments. You have to bear in mind that Slim Shady is disrespectful of White women too, having battered his former wife & slandered his own mother. It really shouldn’t surprise you that he would diss Black girls if he does it to women of his own race. It hasn’t stopped young males of all races from thinking he’s cool. I’m not picking on you but you come across as somewhat bitter that people would defend the right to an interracial relationship. Yes, Black folks should be encouraged to “stick together” in the sense of loving one another, helping one another, uplifting one another…however, I don’t believe that this is meant to be an exclusive concept. It is something that should be a universal concept, practiced by everyone.

IMO, if a Black male prefers to date “his own kind”, there’s nothing wrong with that as long as he is open-minded and understands that there is good & bad in everyone. I personally see nothing wrong with interracial relationships/marriage as long as they’re based on two little words: LOVE and RESPECT, not SEX. Many men in the Black community were brought up to believe that interracial relationships are to be avoided because 1) whites are the enemy, 2) all white females are sluts, and 3) to even be attracted to a white girl or woman is to be disloyal to the Black race. These are myths created by ignorance, fear, & mistrust and they are sweeping generalizations. All women should be cherished and loved without racist stereotypes.