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Sunday, March 06, 2005

White Woman, Black Man -- Why The Hate?


Tiger & Elin
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.
It's quite understandable that American Blacks disdain this combination -- historically it could result in what Billie Holliday called "Strange Fruit" and other types of egregious assaults on Black men.

Because this sexual combination was denied so much, it still generates the most scorn.

Black women are very vociferious about this, claiming that "these White heifers are stealing our men" - with the subtext that Black babies are "being destroyed" in favor of mixed children. And that qualityBlack men -- which are so hard to find -- are opting to erode the struggling Black community by marrying outside their race.

Strangely no other racial mixing carries the same stigmatic weight -- at least not in the United States of America (that corporate puppet country).

In the above referenced photo, we see Tiger Woods (who many a Black would argue that he's "not Black", in that he's not culturally African-American) and his Swedish wife Elin -- by any accounts that woman is pretty, and Tiger is just flexing what his money can buy. Does that sound harsh? Not if you really think about it.

Women want powerful, wealthy men -- that they can relate to. Elin was the nanny for some other big-name golfer's kids, who just so happened to be friends with Tiger Woods. So they were already running in the same circles. His success makes him able to claim just about any girl he wants, also long as she ain't a presumptuous bitch.

Is this a more media-exposed trend? I don't know, but it shouldn't even raise eyebrows -- except for the fact that the US is country that fucked and continues to fuck niggas at each and every opportunity.

1 comment:

Christopher said...

I think that the outcry also stems from the implicit message that physical beuaty in women is dictated by the lightness of their skin.

You referred to her as a beautiful woman, but where are your standards of beauty coming from?

For hundreds of years blacks have been encouraged to think that the darker a person is, the less attractive they are.

When you see a continued dilution of blackness I think it only reinforces that message and makes black women feel very insecure.

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