Did we wake up in 1850 today, where criticizing someone who attempts to justify and/or rationalize their disappointment and feelings of betrayal over a Black friend marrying a Caucasian woman somehow makes you a “pissy, little jerk”? (And what wonderful language allowed on a publication run by Colby Hall, a guy who this very day got himself completely bent over this.)
Apparently, we did wake up in that country. Here’s Mediaite’s Jon Bershad:
The subject of black men dating white women is a very sensitive one in the African American community. While interracial relationships were taboo in white communities in the past, that was because racist white people felt that black romantic partners weren’t “good enough.” When a black man dates a white woman today, it is still taboo for many blacks because they fear it reenforces that old idea. That’s why there are so many Evil White Women playing the role of mistress or girlfriend in the works of black entertainers like Tyler Perry. It’s a cliche and Scott was merely trying to discover the reason for its prevalence.
Well, this most certainly sounds like a typical leftie speaking on behalf of the “African American community,” but if you read singer Jill Scott’s full piece, you might disagree that the Grammy winner and White House guest was “merely trying to discover the reason for its prevalence.” Here’s a quote not included in the Mediaite piece:
I admit when I saw his wedding ring, I privately hoped. But something in me just knew [my Black friend] didn’t marry a sister. Although my guess hit the mark, when my friend told me his wife was indeed Caucasian, I felt my spirit…wince. I didn’t immediately understand it. My face read happy for you.
Here’s another graph not included, where Scott explains why seeing her Black friend with a Caucasian woman evokes “feeling[s] of “betrayal”:
We reflect on this awful past and recall that if a Black man even looked at a White woman, he would have been lynched, beaten, jailed or shot to death. In the midst of this, Black women and Black men struggled together, mourned together, starved together, braved the hoses and vicious police dogs and died untimely on southern back roads together. These harsh truths lead to what we really feel when we see a seemingly together brother with a Caucasian woman and their children. That feeling is betrayed. While we exert efforts to raise our sons and daughters to appreciate themselves and respect others, most of us end up doing this important work alone, with no fathers or like representatives, limited financial support (often court-enforced) and, on top of everything else, an empty bed. It’s frustrating and it hurts.
This doesn’t sound like someone looking to “discover the reason for its prevalence,” this sounds like someone trying to explain and, perhaps, justify something that is objectively … wrong.
It’s not 1850 and it’s not even 1950. We are living in the year 2011, almost a half century after Dr. Martin Luther King defined a new American era by asking us to judge one another by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. To give particular groups a pass on doing otherwise is its own kind of soft bigotry, a sanctimonious liberal condescension that pats others on the head with lowered expectations, while saying, “we understand it’s difficult.”
And I say this as someone with some actual life experience in these matters. My wife is Mexican; she was born in Mexico. English is her second language. She didn’t become an American citizen until she was in her 20s and through her and those on my side who don’t “wince” or justify “wincing” at the sight of someone else’s skin color, my family is currently filled with more racial and otherwise diversity than the bus passengers in the movie “Speed.” But I must say that writing about my wife and family in this way feels strange because I don’t think of my loved ones (or anyone) along racial lines. They’re my family. Period. And anyone who “winces” at any one of us can go straight to hell.
So Common and Jill Scott and their condescending, liberal, MSM defenders can go ahead and wrap their bigotry in a bunch of “social conscience-speak,” but behind it is nothing more than the raw, cynical, Leftist politics of division. This nation’s motto: E pluribus unum — out of many, one, is a direct threat to the Left’s stranglehold on power through the racial divisiveness they disguise as multiculturalism.
Furthermore, think about the utter absurdity of the Left’s ever-evolving position on race. Today, we live in an America where criticizing our failed President’s health-care plan and deficit spending is racist, but opposing or wincing at the sight of interracial relationships is not.
This is not only unacceptable, it’s un-American.
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