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Post by afroerotik on Apr 11, 2007 16:10:04 GMT -5
Dom Imus is a racist. There isn’t much more than can be said about him. His racism is typical of white people in this country and it’s deep-seeded and pervasive. He’s on a two week vacation, and when he returns his ratings will be higher than ever with those waiting for him to say something else racist and those who believe as he does, that dark skinned women are worthless and ugly. Were I to have a national forum, I’d openly call him a little-dicked racist and dare anyone to prove otherwise. The conversation in the Black community, however, shouldn’t be about Don Imus and his racism. At this point, we must discuss and dismantle the horribly offensive remarks made by Black men who have dismissed, justified, and condoned these vile comments. When I talk about the virus of colorism in the African American community, the propensity we have to lift light-skinned women to a pedestal of beauty and perfection, Black men inevitable RUN to the defense of light skinned women, outraged that I would have the nerve to suggest that they have any privileges and swear that they are equally as maligned and discriminated against as dark skinned women. I guess now we see how untrue their empty claims really are. There’s no way these so called men, the ones who have said that Imus’ comments were no big deal, the one who have said that if Chris Rock or some other comedian would have said the same thing we would think it was funny, should be allowed to publicly espouse their filth. It’s not funny. It’s deplorable for a white man to disrespect Black women with such open contempt but it’s far more unspeakable for Black men to think it was funny or innocent and to defend it. The hatred for dark-skinned women in this society is so deep, so poisonous, that we now thinks it’s funny for white men to degrade our women. Who the hell do you think Imus was talking about? He wasn’t just talking about the beautiful and talented young ladies that play for Rutgers. He was talking about every brown skinned woman who doesn’t look like Halle Berry or Beyonce. He was talking about our mothers and aunts, our sisters and our grandmothers and all the women who raised us. He thinks that any woman that doesn’t look like a slightly tanned version of a white woman is a ho. The Black men who have defended his comments are worse than him, they are self-hating, spineless, and reprehensible. It’s not funny when Kat Williams and Dave Chapelle make fun of dark skinned women. We owe our very existence to dark skinned women with nappy hair who survived hell in order that we may live. We idolize light skin and flowing hair as the standard of beauty and we callously ridicule and joke about the women who have built out community, our families. What Dom Imus said was racist, what Black men have said in defense of his comments is pathological and diseased. The women of Rutger’s basketball team are brilliant, articulate, talented young ladies. Moreover, they are beautiful in every sense of the word. My heart goes out to them for the humiliation they endured from Mr. Imus and the media attention that has been given to this serial rapist. My heart aches for them that Black men, who should have their backs at all costs, have treated them as if their feelings meant nothing. Copyright 2007 Scottie Lowe Tired of seeing black women being portrayed as ghetto bitches, freaks and whores, and black men as barely literate thugs, bulls, and pimps, Scottie Lowe decided it was time to show black people in a positive sexual light. Ms. Lowe is the sole owner and founder of www.AfroerotiK.com, a company dedicated to eradicating the negative and stereotypical depictions of Black sexuality and providing customized, personalized erotic stories for and about people of color. Her innovative approach to writing Black and interracial erotica is shattering misperceptions and opening the doors to dialogue about subjects long considered taboo.
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Post by pelicanguy on Apr 11, 2007 16:57:53 GMT -5
Marinate on that, yall.
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Post by sweetpie on Apr 11, 2007 18:10:36 GMT -5
Damm! Go on head girl!
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Post by dolphinfan on Apr 13, 2007 20:18:58 GMT -5
Dom Imus is a racist. There isn’t much more than can be said about him. His racism is typical of white people in this country and it’s deep-seeded and pervasive. He’s on a two week vacation, and when he returns his ratings will be higher than ever with those waiting for him to say something else racist and those who believe as he does, that dark skinned women are worthless and ugly. Were I to have a national forum, I’d openly call him a little-dicked racist and dare anyone to prove otherwise. The conversation in the Black community, however, shouldn’t be about Don Imus and his racism. At this point, we must discuss and dismantle the horribly offensive remarks made by Black men who have dismissed, justified, and condoned these vile comments. When I talk about the virus of colorism in the African American community, the propensity we have to lift light-skinned women to a pedestal of beauty and perfection, Black men inevitable RUN to the defense of light skinned women, outraged that I would have the nerve to suggest that they have any privileges and swear that they are equally as maligned and discriminated against as dark skinned women. I guess now we see how untrue their empty claims really are. There’s no way these so called men, the ones who have said that Imus’ comments were no big deal, the one who have said that if Chris Rock or some other comedian would have said the same thing we would think it was funny, should be allowed to publicly espouse their filth. It’s not funny. It’s deplorable for a white man to disrespect Black women with such open contempt but it’s far more unspeakable for Black men to think it was funny or innocent and to defend it. The hatred for dark-skinned women in this society is so deep, so poisonous, that we now thinks it’s funny for white men to degrade our women. Who the hell do you think Imus was talking about? He wasn’t just talking about the beautiful and talented young ladies that play for Rutgers. He was talking about every brown skinned woman who doesn’t look like Halle Berry or Beyonce. He was talking about our mothers and aunts, our sisters and our grandmothers and all the women who raised us. He thinks that any woman that doesn’t look like a slightly tanned version of a white woman is a ho. The Black men who have defended his comments are worse than him, they are self-hating, spineless, and reprehensible. It’s not funny when Kat Williams and Dave Chapelle make fun of dark skinned women. We owe our very existence to dark skinned women with nappy hair who survived hell in order that we may live. We idolize light skin and flowing hair as the standard of beauty and we callously ridicule and joke about the women who have built out community, our families. What Dom Imus said was racist, what Black men have said in defense of his comments is pathological and diseased. The women of Rutger’s basketball team are brilliant, articulate, talented young ladies. Moreover, they are beautiful in every sense of the word. My heart goes out to them for the humiliation they endured from Mr. Imus and the media attention that has been given to this serial rapist. My heart aches for them that Black men, who should have their backs at all costs, have treated them as if their feelings meant nothing. Copyright 2007 Scottie Lowe Tired of seeing black women being portrayed as ghetto bitches, freaks and whores, and black men as barely literate thugs, bulls, and pimps, Scottie Lowe decided it was time to show black people in a positive sexual light. Ms. Lowe is the sole owner and founder of www.AfroerotiK.com, a company dedicated to eradicating the negative and stereotypical depictions of Black sexuality and providing customized, personalized erotic stories for and about people of color. Her innovative approach to writing Black and interracial erotica is shattering misperceptions and opening the doors to dialogue about subjects long considered taboo. I agree.
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