tuckerreed said:
you have to remember sardonic, that sabine is a white woman living in the southern state of Tennessee. they are not very forward thinking and many are still quite rabidly racist. i am sure there are people who date interracially down there but still use the N word to describe black people. I too am from the south and go home often and the so called liberal white southerner is still a bigot compared to someone from a more progressive and educated part of the world. dont be fooled, many of these people are either experimenting with black men, or doing it as a joke.
Umm as a matter of fact tuckerreed, you have to know that
dating a black man and
tolerating black people are two completely different things. Just because a white woman dates black men does not necessarily mean she likes black men. Is the attraction of one to the other based purely on an individual's preference? Or is it, as some would call, "the fever?" If it is an individual choice based on the merits, needs, and desires of the two people involved, no real harm done. But if it is a decision rooted in myth, novelty, or the forbidden fruit complex, there are destined to be psychological casualties. Given the history of race relations in America, it is difficult at best, to view former slave and former slave master arm-in-arm without some type of gut reaction.
I'd like you to know that a lot of white women do date black men
"just to see what its like". Some do it just for sexual reasons which is extremely appalling. I had a friend who once wanted to use me as an object rather than see me as a person. She had flings with white guys and broke up with them all and one day, decided to "have a change"-
"as she put it". So, she told me to always hold her passionately whenever that guy comes around, kiss her and tell her how beautiful she was to make him upset because
she was going out with a black man . What was my answer? No. I didnt say no because i wanted to upset her. I didnt say no because i was mad. I said no because that was a jab at my intellect, manhood and personality. I said no because i found it
racist. I didnt want to be treated as an object but as a person. She even told me that she wanted to get "
an upgrade in size and i walked away from her. Why did i say that? Well, quite frankly, i think all the
brothas on this site already know why.
Some people think that racism is merely hatred. I say no. Racism is the belief that people of different races differ in value, that these differences can be measured on a ranked, hierarchical scale, and that result in the social, political, and economic advantage of one group in relation to others. The belief that the character and abilities of individuals are correlated with their race is not necessarily racism, since this can be asserted without implying an inequality in value. Objectifying people as mere sex tools is racist because it demoralizes their existence as humans. Just because a person sleeps with, dates and even marries black men in itself doesnt make them any less racist than the normal conservative white if their motives behind the interaction was purely out of superficial reasons. I am not from the south so i cannot say much but my grandparents were slaves in Georgia and Mississippi so its safe to say i know about all the
Jim Crow from them.