I have gone to the "dark side"

and it feels good

I wish I had done this years ago, if but for the fact that I grew up in a racist home.

 

Um...sounds like somebody's man is packin!

 

Man lives.....in the sunlit world....of what he believes to be reality......

 

Cue the StarWars music....to my white sistas...."The Force Is With You"

:smt072

 

Hope he satisfies you more often.

 

I'm willing to bet money that you'll never go back. :wink:

 

LOL. Sorry, I couldn't think of a better title of my thread when I posted

 

Ummm ya How did you know?

 

I was able to gauge what you were thinking by using the jedi mind-trick. :lol:

 

very understandable..

it's hard to break away from what we grow up with...

for myself, i know my mom and just about every black other black female in my family, was against me having anything to do with white women. They didn't mind other races, but would have preferred if I settled down, married, and had kids with a black woman. Their viewpoint was very biased because, they were infact black women who valued decent brothas, doing something positive with their lives.

But, the men really don't care. Some of them dated interracially before ( a couple were in germany on the air force/army's ticket), so they aren't against it because that would be very hypocritical. It's the women in my family that would go up in arms If I became "another good brotha taken by a white girl."



Oh and yeah, welcome to the boards and kudos for living in the 21st century instead of 1953.

 

Thanks for telling me your situation. I think that the apprehension of black women in your family being opposed to IR is based more on the perceived 'man shortage' in the Black community more than anything. My father was rather explicit in his racist views. I was even punished for walking with a black guy after school.

To be honest, the fact that I was told not to date black guys made me fantasize about them even more. Now that I'm on my own, I am 'free at last' to love who I choose, and I choose Black. The day that I first made love to a Black Man, made me realize that we should break down the barriers of racism and separation. It was truly a spiritual, sensual and cathartic experience.

IR is the way of the future, and it should be embraced. It was geography, ignorance and hatred that has kept white and black separate. Hopefully with education and modern ideas, the idea of white supremacy will be abolished.

 

Couldn't agree more. I hate the fact that many of us ww are taught to fear bm. Should've listened to my instincts earlier. Thankfully, I've corrected that mistake.

 

Believe it or not, many of us are taught the same type of things. We're sometimes taught that we're better than white folks, we're also taught to hate, fear, and to never trust them.

Which proves the point that hatred is indeed taught. To love just seems to come naturally because it takes less energy to do so.

Thankfully I have a mom who never allowed that type of mentality in her household while growing up.

 

Good title as far as I'm concerned!

 

interesting you would mention that..

I had a photo taken of me, with one of my best friends (who was a white guy..one time when I was sick, he bought me home things that I had delivered to the school, since I was absent), and a white girl. It was a polaroid pic, taken at an 8th grade dance. My mom didn't mind the white guy, whom she already knew; but she did mind the fact that I had a hand on the white girl (who was a fellow classmate). She flipped out. I went through a lot of racism when I was younger, but as I grew older, many of my white classmates started to behave differently (as if they developed a conscience). Some of them became friends with me and so forth, progressing through racist beliefs instilled by classmates and family. She also flipped out when I told her that I danced with a white girl.

So...her concern had some merit (based on prior racism), but she didn't try to be reasonable. Like I mentioned before, if I was friends with a white guy, she really didn't mind (she was happy for me actually; judge a person by their character, not by the actions of the flock). When it came to the girls, she was bananas.

 

What trips me out is the fact that there are people out there who still use the term: “mongrelization” and they see race-mixing as a crime. But here’s the dirty little secret, they are both black and white people.

As far as racists are concerned, their insults speak volumes about their levels of astounding ignorance then the insults they use. We need to recognize all so called races have mixed and will continue to do so.

There is no such thing as "purity". Mixing strengthens humanity, and it’s been scientifically proven. So people really need to love and not hate, it does you good.

After all, we are only one race anyway.

 

*sniff sniff*

anyone smell Pat Buchannon around here?

 

Wow.
:lol:
I thought you were gonna reference this guy:



This was probably the funniest and thought-provoking comedic sketch in modern history.

 

say what you want...

The Chapelle show was looking to erase any and all boundaries, on television..

what better ways to combat racism and prejudice are there, besides making fun of it?



As for Buchanon (Buchannon? who knows), I vaguely remember him referring to the mongrelization of America, by keeping our borders open to the Mexicans. He didn't mention anything about the Irish, the Italians, or whatever, but he did make it clear he didn't like what was happening in the south.

 

Well said Gloriaforblack. We have for too long been kept apart. With increased travel and movement of people, Geography is not as an important a barrier as before. With more and more african immigrants, IR will inevitably become more common. White supremacy belongs to the dark days of colonialism.