As I'm reading through this thread, I see people making a lot of judgments about interracial relationships. What needs to be understood is that each relationship is unique and of its own.
If a person thought that the one that they were with was racist or had that kind of ideology then obviously they wouldn't have stayed with them.
I'm not saying that there's not people like that out there. However I think that we need to not be focused on other people's relationships.
As foundational black Americans, we have so much more to deal with than small petty stuff like this.
This bothers me because my wife and I get ugly looks more often from black people than we do from white people. The only time I get nasty looks from white people is when I go back home to Louisiana. But of course Louisiana is a very racist state so it's kind of expected there.
What I don't expect is a oppression from my own black people because of who I fell in love with!
I have been in interracial relationships before and at the end of the day have to accept that many people didn’t think it was right. I have always dated more Black women than any other type of women but I did think other women were exotic. But as I got older and my needs evolved I realized that a Black woman was the only woman for me.
I say all that to say, do you. But understand that individualism is the enemy of community. You are asking a community formulated around Black Empowerment to not be concerned with the individual because you feel like there are bigger concerns we should be addressing. But is that a true statement?
You see, a lot of our ills are due to people who prioritize themselves over the greater good of us all aka “coons”. The guy that told on Nat Turner put his own good over the good of us all. Jim Clyburn puts his self over the need of us all.
So when B1 Black people, not all, see someone who wants to operate as an individual it causes their antennas to rise. You see, no one really gives a hoot that your wife is not Black.
Even people that responded to you said as long as you on code, you’re good. But your response to that was “let me do what I want and y’all focus on other things” and that once again is a cause for suspicion in a niche space like this.
This is not a “Black” site persay, the griot is a black site, the root is a black site, blavity is a black site. This is a B1 site, you are getting the “not from concentrate” opinion of Black Empowerment minded Black people.
We all will catch some flack here but it’s good as long as it’s in the spirit of Black empowerment. No one has thrown any ad hominems your way, it’s just healthy discourse, and that’s what the site was built for.
B1