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And yes. You heard it right. The person behind the article, Ralph Richard Banks, is a Black man.
Two highlights of the article for me.
"Two of the most powerful positions in the United States government will soon be held — for the first time — by black women: Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Harris, as we all know, is the vice president of the United States and Brown-Jackson could soon become a Supreme Court justice.
But Harris and Brown-Jackson also share a personal attribute that is equally noteworthy: Each has a white husband."
"But the most significant fissure was between black men and women. While some black women were made uncomfortable by the book, and the way it put them in the spotlight, many others embraced its message of empowerment. That was a message that not all black men wanted to hear. At one of my book talks in Washington DC, I worried a fight would break out between a young black woman who asserted her right to choose whatever type of man she wanted and an older black man who condemned such sentiments as betraying the race.
Other critics, including some black women, contended that white racism precluded black women from finding non-black partners. And this convinced many black women that they cannot (or should not) partner with a non-black man, even if the alternative was remaining unpartnered or in a bad relationship. As a result, many black women feel that they should “marry down” before they “marry out.”
Women should marry the man that will support them and make them feel valued, regardless of what they look like, to include their race. Yes, we all have physical preferences but at the end of the day the lights get turned out and the things you can’t see don’t matter near as much as the things you feel.
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Black feminists have been pushing this for atleast a decade now, all in an effort to socially elevate themselves in ways that the black community never could. Essentially the idea is to make these women as white as possible, and less redeemingly black.
Other critics, including some black women, contended that white racism precluded black women from finding non-black partners. And this convinced many black women that they cannot (or should not) partner with a non-black man, even if the alternative was remaining unpartnered or in a bad relationship.
Thoughts?
Yes, I have a thought!
So, because of 'white racism', black women can't marry Hispanic or Asian men?
I don't know anything about the author, but that has Democrat-logic written all over it...
There's a stereotype somewhere of black women who bind themselves to white men being a social engineering gesture of "moving up". It happens all the time with people who marry in the interest of economics, though there seems to be a stigma attached in certain scenarios like black women and white men.
What people choose to do is their own business. Although with this increasingly mainstream attachment of privilege and demonised historical background character to white people, the notion of intermarrying seems antithetical or at least ironic.
Why does the NY post have to amplify this nonsense ?
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