From: lovegod@wam.umd.edu (Donald Andrew Agarrat)
Subject: Re: Interracial Dating
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:07:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.094840.23803@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Lloyd T Jones"  
<tj@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
} femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony) writes:
} 
} 
} >No I don't. In fact I believe that a most of the black male -
} >white female relationships today come about largely due to curiousity or  
some
} >psychological factor - black males feel a sense of powerlessness/sense
} >of inferiority and feel that getting a white woman will somehow make up
} >for that. Most white females go with black men because of the stereotype
} >that we black men are somehow more sexually potent. Remember that during
} >the days of slavery and Jim Crow, these were the two groups on the
} >opposite side of the racial divide that were absolutely forbidden to
} >have sexual relations (black women were raped often by the white
} >slavemasters). That's where the curiousity part comes in. Personally I
} >am against interracial dating for the following reasons. Another reason
} >why I think that many black men go out with white women is that they
} >feel that white women are somehow "less demanding" than black women,
} >which means that white women expect them to be less responsible. As a
} >black sister of mine once put it. If a black guy starts messing around
} >the white girl will accept it by saying "that's how black men are" while
} >black woman will say "He shouldn't behave like that". I believe that
} >black men will get fulfilling relationships only with black women. I
} >prefer having a black woman who is going to challenge me everyday than
} >someone just accepting me as "being that way". I also think that it is
} >a great disservice done to black women when black males date white
} >women, after the black woman has been at his side throughout all the
} >suffering (the black woman kept the family together). Also, it's time
} >for us to put our women on a pedestal too.... For a very good
} >psychoanalysis of interracial relationships, take a look at the book
} >"Black Skins, White Masks" by Franz Fanon.
} 
} >Femi.
} 
} >All hail to the blak woman...
} 
} 	This is totally ridiculous, spoken by someone with no experience of the
} subject of which he speaks, obviously. And yes, I'm Black and my wife is  
White.
} The only problems we ever have are from closed-minded bigots who see only 
} color, not character.  I have found from working in a large university that
} shitheads come in ALL colors and nationalities...

What Might Be Called 'Cultural Differences':

We as Blacks and Whites share some common history.  We were the slaves and they  
were the masters.  OUR women warmed their beds while their women stayed up all  
night quilting yet another bedspread.  Who do you translate this to your mixed  
child?  Or do you just ignore the hard truth and just say "Can't We All Just  
Get Along?"  

} There is only one race: human.

Don't believe the hype.  If you've just carelessly thrown your Black identity  
to the wind, that is a personal problem.  But DO NOT try to tell me that we are  
all just people because in this country we have people and we have "better"  
people.  I did not make it that way, and I DON'T accept it!  I won't accept it  
for anyone!

Donald - Nigger Stompin' African