Interracial = self-hatred
JC
Thanks to Tariq for the heads-up on this. A blogger reviewed Tonya Oliver’s book, Inside the…Negroes are Foolish League (the book was actually published a couple of years ago). It basically explores the *problem* of interracial relationships. That’s right — unfortunately, yet another piece that perpetuates the idea that black men who inter-marry basically hate themselves, hate their sisters, hate their mothers. This book takes a look at athletes who are with white women and criticizes all of it. She points out the ugliness that exists in some interracial relationships — while some people may have alterior motives, these should not be thought to be representative of every single interracial couple out there.
She provides examples to illustrate her point , though she does not give names to protect their privacy. In one case, when the white wife of one pro black athlete was asked by the white wife of another black pro athlete whether she planned to have kids with her husband, her response was: “Are you kidding? I wouldn’t have that monkey’s baby.”
“…We as black people must be able to seriously and, more importantly, honestly discuss the reason why some of our most successful black men have seemingly turned their backs on their mothers, their sisters, their people and themselves.’
She posits that it’s because white women have alway been forbidden fruit to black men and now that they can have them without being lynched, they are going for it to prove their manhood. Also, that Americans have been socialized to believe that the standard of beauty is a white woman and whereas in the past the closest a black man could get to that standard was a fair-skinned black woman with long hair, now he’s going for the real McCoy.
TheThink on 17 May 2006 at 9:12 am
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