Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Chaney is a racist (and other ramblings) (was re: why...)
From: <KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:18:06 EST
Organization: Penn State University

   Poor Stephen Chaney!  Everyone is jumping on him for his statements (and
rightly so).  But does the man really see his problem?  He is exactly what the
white man has been trying to get us to do all of our lives!  The American ideal
of beauty, virtue, and temperment is the white woman (I am getting sick here).
At least that is what the media has led us to believe, and Mr. Chaney has
fallen for it.  In addition, I think that he is a racist!  Is it possible to be
racist towards your own race, most certainly (look at Clarence Thomas and James
Meredith - any brother who works for Jesse Helms needs a lobotomy).
   Black women have the STEREOTYPE of not taking shit and kicking ass and we
 all know (since we are intelligent people) that stereotypes are just that and
that each individual should be taken at their own worth.  But if you understand
what the white man has done to the Black family throughout our history in this
land you will understand why the stereotype may, in fact, be true.  The Black
family has been split up from the time we were kidnapped in Africa and the
Black woman has had to be the mother and the father for a long time.  And we
men know that if a woman is assertive and stands up for herself the first word
that comes out of our mouths is "Bitch", even though as men we are expected
to have these attributes.  So is Mr. Chaney guilty of something as simple as
sexism?  Yes he is!  White women, who are now becoming more independent are
becoming more "bitchey" also.  What will Mr. Chaney turn to next?
   Black women are the reason why our race has survived and will be the reason
why we will not be extinct.  With 25% of our young men either in prison or on
probation, it will be up to our women to raise our kids and make them
 productive citizens.  The women can't do it alone, though throughout our
history they have been forced to.  We need strong male role models.  We are in
danger now, and we don't need division over some sexist, racist remarks by a
man who appears that he would be happy waking up tomorrow as some sort of
"reverse Watermelon Man" (remember that movie from the sixties?).
  Sorry that I went off on a tangent but actually it all fits.  You can see
where the danger is of us hating ourselves and our women leads to the problems
that we have now with Black on Black crime and the destruction of our families.
We can't blame the white man totally for our sins and our transgressions, some
of the blame has to be in the mirror, but everything effects everything.  By
the way, and I should have made this clear in the beginning, I don't give a
shit who Chaney dates, again, each person should be taken as an individual,
but to exclude someone from your dating pool because of race is bigotted,
especially when you do so because you believe that the race has something
inherently evil within it.  There are some bad black women (that woman who
turned me down for a dance at the club comes to mind), some good black women
(my mother is a saint), some bad white women (Marge Schott) and some good
white women (I like Hillary), so race is not important, it is the individual!


Kevin (sorry for the rambling)