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I have never taken a stab at this topic. However, a Black male boardite ...NOT DAHJAH and NOT Daddy Neutral, shared this book with me and I thought, why not? Has anybody read this book? If so what are your thoughts and reactions.
I hope that we can have some fruitful, civilized and polite discussion focusing on the TOPIC. This book was written by a Black man...no drooling over his photo ladies:
Rajen Persaud
RaJen - is a stand-up comedian, filmmaker, screen writer, author and lecturer. He began his writing in college by choosing provocative subjects for required papers. While everyone chose typical freshman topics Rajen wrote about the origins of the Klu Klux Klan. This was to begin years of study into race relations.
Notice I have tempered his title. Here are some excerpts. You can read chapter 1 on-line.
Would appreciate your thoughts and reactions, particularly from the men on Board Lane?
Love, Sex, Revenge, Power or Politics?
New Book Answers All Of Your Questions and Poses More.
Why do so many high profile Black men date and marry
the most ordinary white women?
Why do so many other Black men desire and
covet the company of white women?
And why does this subject deeply touch so many people of both races
From Emmett Till to Marcus Dixon, from O.J. Simpson to Kobe Bryant, Black men have historically risked their lives, careers, and freedom in exchange for the attention of a white woman - any white woman.
Dear friend, everything you think you know about this subject may have to be reconsidered after reading this book. You will not look at your: self, family, friends or even your mate in the same way. And you will never see a movie, read a newspaper, watch a television show or listen to the news without thinking about this book or seeing something in it regarding this book.
I don't know how much you know about sex, power, politics and racism but when you read Why Black Men Love White Women you will most certainly be in for an intellectual exercise. You will know what it’s like to journey into the minds of the men and women around you. You will understand how they think and why they think that way. You will then become in touch with their deepest motivations and may be able to predict their every move.
You will certainly see yourself or someone you know in this book and will completely understand their existence.
Whether you care or not, the actions described in this book directly affect your life and the lives of all those around you.
Why Black Men Love White Women is not a subject that should be taken lightly. It is a subject that has roots that still greatly affects our day to day lives.
Once you truly learn Why Black Men Love White Women you will begin to answer questions that are farther and wider than the title of this book.
I won't post the link because of some of the language.
I hope that we can have some fruitful, civilized and polite discussion focusing on the TOPIC. This book was written by a Black man...no drooling over his photo ladies:
Rajen Persaud
RaJen - is a stand-up comedian, filmmaker, screen writer, author and lecturer. He began his writing in college by choosing provocative subjects for required papers. While everyone chose typical freshman topics Rajen wrote about the origins of the Klu Klux Klan. This was to begin years of study into race relations.
Notice I have tempered his title. Here are some excerpts. You can read chapter 1 on-line.
Would appreciate your thoughts and reactions, particularly from the men on Board Lane?
Love, Sex, Revenge, Power or Politics?
New Book Answers All Of Your Questions and Poses More.
Why do so many high profile Black men date and marry
the most ordinary white women?
Why do so many other Black men desire and
covet the company of white women?
And why does this subject deeply touch so many people of both races
From Emmett Till to Marcus Dixon, from O.J. Simpson to Kobe Bryant, Black men have historically risked their lives, careers, and freedom in exchange for the attention of a white woman - any white woman.
Dear friend, everything you think you know about this subject may have to be reconsidered after reading this book. You will not look at your: self, family, friends or even your mate in the same way. And you will never see a movie, read a newspaper, watch a television show or listen to the news without thinking about this book or seeing something in it regarding this book.
I don't know how much you know about sex, power, politics and racism but when you read Why Black Men Love White Women you will most certainly be in for an intellectual exercise. You will know what it’s like to journey into the minds of the men and women around you. You will understand how they think and why they think that way. You will then become in touch with their deepest motivations and may be able to predict their every move.
You will certainly see yourself or someone you know in this book and will completely understand their existence.
Whether you care or not, the actions described in this book directly affect your life and the lives of all those around you.
Why Black Men Love White Women is not a subject that should be taken lightly. It is a subject that has roots that still greatly affects our day to day lives.
Once you truly learn Why Black Men Love White Women you will begin to answer questions that are farther and wider than the title of this book.
Residuals of Racism
This book is primarily for Black women, but I believe that women in general can profit from it sociologically, politically, emotionally and sexually. It is an exploration into the fundamentals of racism and sexism, which allows women to realize how they are used sexually by men for sport, politics, profit, and power. There is an underlying theme of sex power in this book, as well as in the world. An interesting spin on “The Golden Rule” says: “he who has the gold makes the rules.” However, this idea seems non-transferable to women because the sexual power of women has been a natural resource that white men, and men in general, have historically mined and exploited; creating a world that has been continually run on possessive policies for centuries: “my wife, my woman, my girl” has been the male mantra for more than a millennium.
This is not another male bashing book because I check women and their nonsense too. But the politics of sex and power is an interesting study, especially when one looks at Why Black Men Love White Women. For Black people racism and sexism are one in the same, an issue I will explore further in a later chapter. In the world of racism and white supremacy, power and control through economics are the key components for its survival, and the fuel for this survival is often sexism.
This book is primarily for Black women, but I believe that women in general can profit from it sociologically, politically, emotionally and sexually. It is an exploration into the fundamentals of racism and sexism, which allows women to realize how they are used sexually by men for sport, politics, profit, and power. There is an underlying theme of sex power in this book, as well as in the world. An interesting spin on “The Golden Rule” says: “he who has the gold makes the rules.” However, this idea seems non-transferable to women because the sexual power of women has been a natural resource that white men, and men in general, have historically mined and exploited; creating a world that has been continually run on possessive policies for centuries: “my wife, my woman, my girl” has been the male mantra for more than a millennium.
This is not another male bashing book because I check women and their nonsense too. But the politics of sex and power is an interesting study, especially when one looks at Why Black Men Love White Women. For Black people racism and sexism are one in the same, an issue I will explore further in a later chapter. In the world of racism and white supremacy, power and control through economics are the key components for its survival, and the fuel for this survival is often sexism.
CHAPTER 1
Soiled
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Background
Throughout American history, the white male and the Black female have had an open sexual relationship. Not consensual by any means, it was born out of rape, humility, and control. During slavery whites “...introduced the house slaves to white ways, minimal education and non-consensual sexual relations.”1 It has long been held that even the father of the United States, George Washington, had sexual intercourse with his female slaves and it was this behavior that may have resulted in his death. He reportedly caught pneumonia because of his frequent visits to the slave quarters, which were less fit for human habitation.
The most perverse celebration of these associations was Thomas Jefferson's relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemmings. Many have celebrated it as a romance of the forbidden fruit, but as Randall Robinson asserts: “Jefferson was a slave holder, a racist, and - if one accepts that consent cannot be given if it cannot be denied - a rapist.”2 Black people at this time had no rights and were considered the property of white men to do as they pleased. Robert Newsome, a sixty year old slaver, “...needed more than a hostess and a manager of household affairs; he required a sexual partner. Newsome seems to have deliberately chosen to purchase a young slave girl to fulfill this role...”3 It is certain that “...from the moment he purchased Celia, Newsome regarded her as both his property and concubine.”4 And “[o]n his return to Callaway County, Newsome raped Celia, and by that act once established and defined the nature of the relationship between the master and his newly acquired slave”5 - she was just fourteen years old and that was probably her first sexual experience. During this time as well as much later on, “[f]ew Black women reached the age of sixteen without having been molested by a White male.”6
Without any rights, legal recourse or protection from local state or federal authorities, a Black woman could make no decision concerning anything that affected her life. There were no battered women's shelters, N.O.W movement, rape crisis center, NAACP, Al Sharpton, or any support sympathetic to her discomforts. She was completely incapable of rejecting her master’s wishes - her alternatives were to do or die.
This was the beginning of the soiling of the Black female in America. It was especially devastating when seen thorough the spectacles of Black men. The experience painted an unflattering picture of the her that has remained in the mental albums of Black men. She was reduced to a sexual brood mare to increase the slave population - which helped to create the enormous white wealth that empowered the colonizers - as well as to satisfy the slaver's salacious sickness; degenerating her to an ejaculatory dumping ground for the grotesque pleasures forced on the conquered. There is no denying “...that the white man has had the chief hand in undermining the morals of the Negro women. He has been living in concubinage with them for over three hundred years!”7 In Souls of Black Folk, W.E. B. Dubois said “the red stain of bastardy, which two centuries of systemic legal defilement of Negro women had stamped upon [this] race, meant not only the loss of ancient African chastity, but also the hereditary weight of a mass of corruption from white adulterers, threatening almost the obliteration of the Negro home.”
Soiled
EDIT
Background
Throughout American history, the white male and the Black female have had an open sexual relationship. Not consensual by any means, it was born out of rape, humility, and control. During slavery whites “...introduced the house slaves to white ways, minimal education and non-consensual sexual relations.”1 It has long been held that even the father of the United States, George Washington, had sexual intercourse with his female slaves and it was this behavior that may have resulted in his death. He reportedly caught pneumonia because of his frequent visits to the slave quarters, which were less fit for human habitation.
The most perverse celebration of these associations was Thomas Jefferson's relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemmings. Many have celebrated it as a romance of the forbidden fruit, but as Randall Robinson asserts: “Jefferson was a slave holder, a racist, and - if one accepts that consent cannot be given if it cannot be denied - a rapist.”2 Black people at this time had no rights and were considered the property of white men to do as they pleased. Robert Newsome, a sixty year old slaver, “...needed more than a hostess and a manager of household affairs; he required a sexual partner. Newsome seems to have deliberately chosen to purchase a young slave girl to fulfill this role...”3 It is certain that “...from the moment he purchased Celia, Newsome regarded her as both his property and concubine.”4 And “[o]n his return to Callaway County, Newsome raped Celia, and by that act once established and defined the nature of the relationship between the master and his newly acquired slave”5 - she was just fourteen years old and that was probably her first sexual experience. During this time as well as much later on, “[f]ew Black women reached the age of sixteen without having been molested by a White male.”6
Without any rights, legal recourse or protection from local state or federal authorities, a Black woman could make no decision concerning anything that affected her life. There were no battered women's shelters, N.O.W movement, rape crisis center, NAACP, Al Sharpton, or any support sympathetic to her discomforts. She was completely incapable of rejecting her master’s wishes - her alternatives were to do or die.
This was the beginning of the soiling of the Black female in America. It was especially devastating when seen thorough the spectacles of Black men. The experience painted an unflattering picture of the her that has remained in the mental albums of Black men. She was reduced to a sexual brood mare to increase the slave population - which helped to create the enormous white wealth that empowered the colonizers - as well as to satisfy the slaver's salacious sickness; degenerating her to an ejaculatory dumping ground for the grotesque pleasures forced on the conquered. There is no denying “...that the white man has had the chief hand in undermining the morals of the Negro women. He has been living in concubinage with them for over three hundred years!”7 In Souls of Black Folk, W.E. B. Dubois said “the red stain of bastardy, which two centuries of systemic legal defilement of Negro women had stamped upon [this] race, meant not only the loss of ancient African chastity, but also the hereditary weight of a mass of corruption from white adulterers, threatening almost the obliteration of the Negro home.”
The Contrived Goddess
On the other side, the white woman was held up as the pure, Christian, ideal example of womanhood and more importantly, she was completely off limits to the Black man. If the eyes of a Black man were to land on a white woman it could mean death. Black men were dehumanized through whipping, hanging, castration, decapitation, burning, drowning, dismembering and various other forms of atrocious human behavior - simply to right the wrongs of a casual glance. A practice that is still in vogue in modern American society. It was just 1989 when Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death in Brooklyn because he was mistaken for someone seeing a white girl.
Consequently, the white woman eventually developed a cry of omnipotence. All that was needed was an accusation against a Black person to trigger the wrath of her male protectors. Even if she cried wolf there was guaranteed punishment for the accused. Charles Stewart tried to use it when he murdered his wife in Massachusetts and blamed it on a Black man. He wanted insurance money to open a restaurant - she was eight months pregnant when he shot her in the head. As a result, most of Boston’s Blacks were harassed and detained... while a grown Black man was arrested and later “confessed” to a crime Mr. Stewart was found to have committed. Susan Smith used it to try and scatter the scent of suspicion after she drowned her children and blamed a Black man for kidnaping them.
More recently, in the summer of 2002, Bryant Gumbel’s son, Brandon, was arrested and held for 24 hours because a white woman said he looked like the man who attacked her. Not long after, the entire state of Florida was on lock down as the world watched three Muslim men detained for 17 hours because some white woman said she heard them talking suspiciously. And the story of young Emmett Till's brutal hanging, beating and drowning, for whistling at a white store clerk in the 1950's, still remains a shameful part of American history: “Dare I ask how does it feel to have a horrible crime committed in your name?,”12 declared Nikki Giovanni, on speaking before white women.
While the Black woman could be violated at will, the white woman's comfort was protected with the ultimate price. In this case the death penalty was not law, it was habit. This environment helped to greatly increase any interest the Black man may have had in the white woman. If the Black man had no innate interest in the white woman, he certainly would have developed some just out of curiosity. Anyone would be intrigued by what was being protected. A Ph.D. in human anatomy and genetics would find interest in a white woman if he was denied access to her. And just being denied the ability to even look at someone would create an interest, and over the years an obsession would develop - a phenomenon that is evident in many Black men.
On the other side, the white woman was held up as the pure, Christian, ideal example of womanhood and more importantly, she was completely off limits to the Black man. If the eyes of a Black man were to land on a white woman it could mean death. Black men were dehumanized through whipping, hanging, castration, decapitation, burning, drowning, dismembering and various other forms of atrocious human behavior - simply to right the wrongs of a casual glance. A practice that is still in vogue in modern American society. It was just 1989 when Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death in Brooklyn because he was mistaken for someone seeing a white girl.
Consequently, the white woman eventually developed a cry of omnipotence. All that was needed was an accusation against a Black person to trigger the wrath of her male protectors. Even if she cried wolf there was guaranteed punishment for the accused. Charles Stewart tried to use it when he murdered his wife in Massachusetts and blamed it on a Black man. He wanted insurance money to open a restaurant - she was eight months pregnant when he shot her in the head. As a result, most of Boston’s Blacks were harassed and detained... while a grown Black man was arrested and later “confessed” to a crime Mr. Stewart was found to have committed. Susan Smith used it to try and scatter the scent of suspicion after she drowned her children and blamed a Black man for kidnaping them.
More recently, in the summer of 2002, Bryant Gumbel’s son, Brandon, was arrested and held for 24 hours because a white woman said he looked like the man who attacked her. Not long after, the entire state of Florida was on lock down as the world watched three Muslim men detained for 17 hours because some white woman said she heard them talking suspiciously. And the story of young Emmett Till's brutal hanging, beating and drowning, for whistling at a white store clerk in the 1950's, still remains a shameful part of American history: “Dare I ask how does it feel to have a horrible crime committed in your name?,”12 declared Nikki Giovanni, on speaking before white women.
While the Black woman could be violated at will, the white woman's comfort was protected with the ultimate price. In this case the death penalty was not law, it was habit. This environment helped to greatly increase any interest the Black man may have had in the white woman. If the Black man had no innate interest in the white woman, he certainly would have developed some just out of curiosity. Anyone would be intrigued by what was being protected. A Ph.D. in human anatomy and genetics would find interest in a white woman if he was denied access to her. And just being denied the ability to even look at someone would create an interest, and over the years an obsession would develop - a phenomenon that is evident in many Black men.
he's creepy looking with those dead eyes. anyback back to your topic. anyway, i don't see why it's a *pressing social issue*. if some black men want white women, so be it. there are still enough black men who LOVE black women. and that's all i'm gonna say.
it nuff ah it ain't pretty. but mi nah goh mashup Tropicana post.
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