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  1. Well, John, since you singled me out in your response, I'll make my previous remarks a little clearer. It seemed to me that because you felt the need to seek out the reaction of black readers to your book about black characters, implicit in this gesture is the idea that you, yourself, feared writing such a book was "presumptuous". Hence my comment. Where Teddy Roosevelt is concerned, may I remind you that racism is not always aggressive and inflammatory. It can be benign. White people can be so steeped in their sense of entitlement and superiority that they can condescend to be civil to Blacks in spite of the fact that they don't consider them equal. That's why racism still exists today. Teddy appreciated educator Booker T. Washington because where the races were concerned, Washington favored racial separation, while encouraging Blacks to excel in the fields of agriculture and mechanics. This was why he was such an anathema to W.E.B. Dubois. Abe Lincoln freed the slaves not because he thought they were equal, but because he hated slavery. To expose Teddy as an "aristocratic racist" would not necessarily make him a villain. It would, indeed, make him a man of his times. I read the excerpt from your book and had no problem with its use of dialect. Cynique
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  2. . Thank you. That was brilliant Ms. Cynique. I agree. The media has nothing to do with it. The belief that all black men are obsessed with white women is a myth which was created (and still maintained), for the most part, by black women and white racists. Black men by nature (or culture, take your pick) are into curvaceous, big leg, bootylicious women with shoulder length (or longer) hair. This not the preference for every black man. But you will find that black men as a group, tend to attracted to women with the aforementioned physical characteristics -regardless of their skin color, ethnicity or race. Coco Austin, Buffy the Body, Beyonce, Anowa (The Nigerian Powerhouse) or Jennifer Lopez will never want for or lack attention from black men! I think black men as a group, are very open and aggressive about this particular preference. And it must be noted that there are black men who will hook up with unshapely, overweight, obese, small, skinny to anaorexic and unattractive women -regardless of their skin complexion or race. For some convoluted reason, this fact seems to be overlooked or deliberately omitted from these race/sex problematic conversations. Also, the dating of non-black women by black men is generational and regional. You will see black men and non-black women of the post 1980 generation who openly date whomever they want. Even though blacks in the South generally tend to stay within their respective racial group, race and ethnicity is no longer a driving factor in the decisions/criteria for dating in West or Mid-West. I live in SoCal and I see black men with Latinas every single day. But 25 or 30 years ago – you did not see that…PERIOD! Now you do. And I often times see black women with white men which was extremely rare back in the day. No big thing today…. There are many reasons why people date people who are not of the same ethnicity or race. Some reasons are simple, others more complex. And probably much of it is simply unencumbered personal preference . But regardless, it’s an individual choice that does not have to be explained nor rationalized to anyone. In the year 2011, people simply do whatever they want regardless of antediluvian social and cultural taboos…….
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