Dang. Yeah . . . I might have to come back to this post after I've digested it a little bit, but ain't that something. If you don't like white people, you obviously just like the group to which you belong, which means you obviously don't date interracially.
It's like movie producers denying Danny Glover funding because there isn't a white hero . . . and his movie is about the Haitian liberation.
o.O
Read a history book, producers, ALL the white people were the enemy. That's why you're STILL screwing over the country over two hundred and some-odd years later!
Granted, I am attracted to white men; I'd date white men. Then again, as a black woman, I reckon I should be "grateful" anyone would like me--this includes black men, mind.
I don't think people realize how hurtful it is to hear the absent regurgitation of internalize white privilege/standards of beauty. I could say "Black Is Beautiful" all day long and believe it with all my heart, but when you rarely see the society around you cosigning that . . . you start to feel like a liar. When BET execs say a black woman can't carry a show on the BLACK NETWORK . . . oy.
But then you have magazines like Italian Vogue that sell out like whoa, and you're say . . . "all right . . . now we're talking!"
But yeah, nobody wants to be a fetish; that's no fun. And you do you. I'm not mad at it . . . then again, I'm not an entitled white woman, either :-P.
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Date: 2008-08-09 10:32 am (UTC)It's like movie producers denying Danny Glover funding because there isn't a white hero . . . and his movie is about the Haitian liberation.
o.O
Read a history book, producers, ALL the white people were the enemy. That's why you're STILL screwing over the country over two hundred and some-odd years later!
Granted, I am attracted to white men; I'd date white men. Then again, as a black woman, I reckon I should be "grateful" anyone would like me--this includes black men, mind.
I don't think people realize how hurtful it is to hear the absent regurgitation of internalize white privilege/standards of beauty. I could say "Black Is Beautiful" all day long and believe it with all my heart, but when you rarely see the society around you cosigning that . . . you start to feel like a liar. When BET execs say a black woman can't carry a show on the BLACK NETWORK . . . oy.
But then you have magazines like Italian Vogue that sell out like whoa, and you're say . . . "all right . . . now we're talking!"
But yeah, nobody wants to be a fetish; that's no fun. And you do you. I'm not mad at it . . . then again, I'm not an entitled white woman, either :-P.