I think it's kinda funny that all of a sudden BLACK MEN BLACK MEN are complaining about black/multiracial women interracial dating/marrying. lol Black women have been complaining about bm and their "other" girls for awhile now while black men remained silent on the issue. lol
And how come yall ain't complaining about Alec Wek marrying a white dude? It's always Paula Patton, Halle Berry, Zoe Saldana, Thandie Newton, Essence Atkins or some light/multiracial girl...SMH
Just b/c they have one drop of "black blood" doesn't mean they are obligated to marry some color struck black man. They are free to marry a color struck man of any color or a regular dude.
Sister, with due respect, Marcus Garvey pointed out the problem of Black men going for interracial dating. More, the problem is much older than he. During Toussaint's 18th century struggle for Haiti, the "Colored" and their politics were as they were.
We should not find anything funny about this situation. More, we should not make the issue seem contemporary. We're at war and we are losing. We need to speak right and get with the truth.
Halle Berry is an instrument, but she's irrelevant. One main problem is that we do not know our history--we keep thinking everything is new when it's old--and we do not know our Philosophy--that's our largest woe!
Here's Garvey on the subject:
The "colored" group has scientifically arranged their method of propaganda. In America and the colonies, they hold out certain baits and hopes to the educated and financially prosperous men of the darker groups; such as encouraging them to marry the very lightest element of their women, and adopting them into their society. These darker men, for the special privilege and "honor" are used as active propagandists to deceive the great mass of dark people so that they would not suspect the motive or the design of the "colored" element. Generally the darker men who marry the very lightest "colored" women, who sometimes pass off as white, become more hostile to their kind in the mass as well as by individual contact than the very leaders, as the leaders are generally careful not to attract or arouse suspicion of their motive. The majority of the "colored" leaders who seek after white women and the darker men who marry very light "colored" women, are seldom on social terms with their own mothers if they are dark. If they have their mothers in their homes, which is generally never so, they hide them away either in the kitchen or a back room where they do not come in contact with either their light "colored" or white guests. Sometimes a mother is referred to, if seen, as one of the servants.
Here's a European man (In Garvey's "Philosophies and Opinions" no less):
In an editorial dated March 29, 1923, the Abantu-Batho of Johannesburg states among other things:
"The Cape colored people have been promised absorption by politicians, particularly those of the Dutch race. . . . Indeed we are suspicious that all this talk about absorption is a political trap which has been set to capture the colored vote in the Cape. It is the business of the politician to strengthen his position by getting as many supporters as possible. To do this, he must, of necessity, be diplomatic. That is to say, he must know how to get around the people, and the only way to get around the people is to put before them a beautiful picture of what one intends to do. There can be no doubt that to the Cape colored people the idea of their absorption by the white race presents a beautiful ideal for the attainment of which they are prepared to sacrifice everything. They cannot be blamed for this. As a distinct community they have no past, no traditions, no laws, and no language which things constitute the pride of every race of mankind. These sons of Hagar are in an awkward position. They despise the people of Hagar, because Hagar's people are despised by the people of Abraham. They are suffering because of the gulf that exists between their mothers' people and those of their fathers. . . . The difference between the treatment meted out to the colored people and the Africans does not in any way signify that the whites have more consideration for the colored people. It will be remembered that when Lord Selborne left this country in 1909, he warned the white people of South Africa against putting the Cape colored people in the same category as Africans because that would unite the two sections of the African peoples to fight for their common rights. Since then the policy has been to differentiate in the treatment of the two sections so as to make combined action impossible. Thus it is not saying too much to aver that the real object of the white race is to make the Cape colored people a buffer between the Africans and Europeans. As a buffer, the Cape colored people can never have the same rights as whites. Now the question is: What are they to do? Will they be satisfied with a position of this kind? Or will they follow the lead of our cousins in America and classify themselves as Africans? In our opinion this is the only way to the salvation of the Cape colored people. They are Africans and not Europeans. And the sooner they realize it the better."
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This is why I personally avoid using the word "Black" as a descriptor. It's just a color. We're more than a color--we are Philosophers of Africa.