Legal insurrection.com had an excellent post followed by insightful comments on interracial marriage. Central to this post was the fact that most people – most white people – are unaware that blacks are as against interracial marriage as they are.
Tiger Wood’s situation has brought all of this into focus. He is not only is purported to have had one mistress but about 4 – all of them white. As Professor Jacobson noted in a quote:
As one blogger, Robert Paul Reyes, wrote: “If Tiger Woods had cheated on his gorgeous white wife with black women, the golfing great’s accident would have been barely a blip in the blogosphere.”
He went on to quote a noted researcher on the subject:
We tend to view resistence to interracial marriage as a white racist phenomenon. If true, maybe we need to rethink our approach to racial harmony and consider factors, in addition to racial hatred, as to the sources of self-segregation:
“There is a call for loyalty that is stronger in some ways than in other racial communities,” said the author of the study, George Yancey, a sociology professor at the University of North Texas and author of the book “Just Don’t Marry One.”
The color of one’s companion has long been a major measure of “blackness” — which is a big reason why the biracial Barack Obama was able to fend off early questions about his black authenticity.
“Had Barack had a white wife, I would have thought twice about voting for him,” Johnson Cooper said.
Why is this issue more heated than, say, in our view of interracial marriage between a Japanese and a European American? We had a war with Japan. And there has been opposition on both sides of marriages between Asians and Europeans – often resulting in the banning of the Asian from his/her society. Certainly the children of these mixed marriages are outcast as many persons who adopted bi-racial children after the Viet Nam war can confirm.
Perhaps the slavery component in black – white relationships generally intensifies the hatred and self-segregation of the phenomenon.
I remember back to the time when Sammy Davis Jr married another Swedish blonde, May Britt. He did it at a time when interracial marriage was illegal in 31 states.
At the same time, I had a brilliant and wonderful Jewish boyfriend who went to Princeton. One day he turned to me and said softly, “My parents are going to finance my medical school education. I just can’t take a goy home to them.” I smiled at him and said “I thought that was my line”?
I am not surprised at the opposition of blacks, both male and female, to interracial marriage. People should know that there are two sides to every prejudice.
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JamieWearingFool – ‘Had Barack Had a White Wife, I Would Have Thought Twice About Voting for Him‘
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