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French Vogue Photographs Models In Black Face

 
While Black models continue to complain of their exclusion from major magazines and runway shoots over a year after this issue was brought to light. (see "Crossing The Thin White Line"below) 

Its seems not much has changed and maybe its gotten worse, since Vogue, in its October issue, would rather paint white models black, than hire Black models. Until Black women refuse to buy the cloths of designers who don't include Black models, and better yet, choose to buy the clothing of more Black Clothing Designers, this racism will continue. Black consumers in America alone spend over $22 billion annually on clothing. Your money can speak much louder than your words.

Crossing Fashion's Thin White Line

Criticism About a Lack of Ethnic Diversity on Runways Puts Attention on Casting Directors

By RACHEL DODES
February 1, 2008

Earlier this week, fashion designer Peter Som and casting director Jennifer Venditti stood in his office studying five photos of pale, thin teenage girls with dirty-blond hair.

"Weird," said Mr. Som, scanning the teens in the photos. "They're all the same."

Ms. Venditti, who is hired by designers to cast models for their fashion shows, noted that "there are so many of these types. You could do a whole show with them." She advised Mr. Som to pick no more than two of the five blondes to appear in his fashion show Monday.

Amid recent public criticism about the lack of ethnic diversity on fashion runways, the role of casting director is drawing more attention as New York's fashion week gets under way today. In the past, designers chose the models themselves. But now that designers are required to produce multiple collections, make media appearances and court celebrities, the job of casting director is usually outsourced to specialists like Ms. Venditti. Her specialty: navigating models' competing schedules, negotiating with frantic designers and fighting with agents.

Bethann Hardison, a former model who has been organizing efforts to raise awareness about the lack of color among runway models, says the growing power of casting directors, many of whom cast multiple shows, is part of the problem. "Everybody gets into this Stepford Wives mentality," says Ms. Hardison, a black woman who modeled in the '70s, when there was a big demand for black models. She notes that designers now all are looking to hire many of the same models, who tend to be white and very thin.

In response to the recent exposure of the issue in the media after Ms. Hardison's efforts, the Council of Fashion Designers of America has been lobbying designers to hire a broader range of models this fashion week. In a letter sent to designers, modeling agents and casting directors on Jan. 9, CFDA President Diane von Furstenberg encouraged industry players to create fashion shows "that are truly multicultural" and to embrace "whole groups of people no matter their race or color," according to a copy of the letter. Steven Kolb, the CFDA's executive director, said, "We are reminding people of positive behavior."

Just who is responsible for diversity on the runway depends on whom you ask. Casting directors say they work for the designers, so if the designers decide ethnic models don't fit their aesthetic, they don't hire them. Designers gripe that they would use more minority models, but the agencies don't send any "good" ones. And the modeling agencies say they aren't scouting and developing many minority models because the market hasn't been demanding their services.

A designer's goal with an expensive fashion show is to keep attention on his or her clothes, not the models. That's why, many designers privately explain, they don't like to hire distinctive-looking models, either ethnically or otherwise. But the public concern has put so much pressure on the industry that some say they have to change.

"The tricky thing about this business is that [designers and casting directors] can always say it's a matter of personal and aesthetic freedom," says Roman Young, an agent at Elite Model Management. "You wonder, 'Are they racist or are they just dumb?'" Mr. Young says he hasn't been aggressively scouting models of color because, until now, designers haven't demanded them. Very young, newly scouted models are highly in demand every season since the market likes fresh, unknown faces.

African-American models like Iman and Naomi Campbell broke through the race barrier long ago. And several Asian, Latina and black models routinely appear on the runways. Chanel Iman, a 16-year-old black model, is particularly in demand this season

But nearly everyone in the fashion industry acknowledges that minority representation on the runways, as well as in high-fashion advertising, doesn't approximate the general population. The lack of minorities in high fashion contrasts with a noticeable increase in the casting of ethnic models in print and TV commercials, as well as in television and movies.

For casting director Ms. Venditti, the recent conversations about ethnicity have emboldened her to push harder for diversity this season. When one of her client's stylists said she didn't need to book a second black model because they already had one, Ms. Venditti says she told her, "They're both beautiful. Why can't you have two?"

At Mr. Som's casting call this week, he explained that his fall collection was inspired by the social outcasts captured in the photographs of Diane Arbus. He was seeking models with a "loopy and loony" vibe, he said.

After casting the two blondes, Mr. Som asked Ms. Venditti how many ethnic models were on the roster. She told him there were four -- two black and two Asian -- out of a then-selected cast of 18. "I do not want an all-white cast," he says. "But there's always room for improvement."

Ms. Venditti, now 35 years old, once modeled in a fashion show for the local Saks Fifth Avenue near where she grew up. But when a scout from the John Casablancas modeling school began calling her house and leaving messages, she never returned the calls, explaining now that she preferred to be in charge of shaping the image, not the image itself. She moved to New York, working first at KCD, a fashion-show production company and then as a free-lance stylist.

She started her own company, JV8 Inc., in 1998. For her first casting job, she found a homeless woman and a local band for a photo shoot in W magazine. Advertisers like Gap and Benetton began calling to request her services.

Ms. Venditti quickly developed a reputation for finding unusual characters for modeling jobs. For a photo shoot in Detroit, fashion photographer Bruce Weber asked Ms. Venditti to bring him a local guy to appear alongside supermodel Kate Moss in a fashion spread for W magazine's September 2006 issue. Ms. Venditti camped outside a high-school prom at Detroit's Lewis Cass Technical High School. The following morning, she presented Mr. Weber with photos of a tall Puerto Rican student in a tuxedo. "I thought, 'Wow, this guy is so beautiful,'" Mr. Weber recalls. When Ms. Venditti informed him that the student was a female, Mr. Weber decided to use her in the shoot instead of a young man.

As for whether the industry will ever change, Ms. Venditti says it's all about whether racial diversity becomes the latest fashion trend. "In general, [the industry] is a bunch of followers," she says. But "the conversation has started."

According to Target Market News, African American's alone spend over $22 Billion yearly on clothing. This doesn't include money spent by other minority groups. If you stop buying from designers who don't include models of color in their runway presentations and all of their advertising, I'm sure we would see an immediate change. Its up to you. What do you think....

See  What Naomi Campbell says out about the white wash.

Black Aborigines Get Apology From White Australian Leader

Its important that we deal with facts and not emotion, when we talk about the global pattern of racism. The long held belief by some whites that they are inherently superior because of their race. The systematic use of governmental laws to uphold this belief  and perpetuate hate and inflict pain on a generation of people. There are stricking similarities between slavery in the US and todays demand by some Blacks for reparation and the  attempted genocide of the Aborigines by white Australia, with the blessing of this countries laws. The Aborigines too, are demanding reparation. In both cases the US and Australian governments have been slow to admit guilt , let alone seriously address the reparation debate.

Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, today made a comprehensive and moving apology to the Stolen Generations, the ten of thousands of indigenous children who were removed and sometimes forcibly, from their families in a forced apolicy of assimilation that only ended in the 1970's. In some states, it was part of a policy to "breed the color out" in the words of Cecil Cook, who held the title of Chief Protector of the Northern Territory in the 1930's. "We apologize especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their community and their country," Mr. Rudd said, as hundreds of members of the Stolen Generations listened, some with tears in their eyes. To the mothers and fathers, the brothers and sisters, for breaking up families and communities, "We say sorry. And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture we are sorry."

Although the Aborigines are asking the Austrailian government to back up their apology with reparation, this demand is being ignored. Many indigenous Austrailians live on the margins of society. Aboriginal life expectency is 17 years shorter than for the average Austrailian, indigenous unemployment runs three times the rate of the country as a whole and the incidence of crime and alcoholism is significantly higher in indigenous communities.

United Nations to US: Do More Against Racism

Other countries are telling America, "Its not what you say, its what you do." That's what the United Nations is saying today to America, as George Bush stands on his pedestal criticizing other countries for their mistreatment of their citizens. Many whites say that minorities are paranoid when we talk about the day to day racism that so many have do deal with. But the facts speak for themselves.

By ELIANE ENGELER

GENEVA (AP) - U.N. human rights experts told the United States on Thursday to step up efforts to combat racial discrimination in the detention of African-Americans and Hispanics and questioned the treatment of illegal immigrants.

U.S. Ambassador Warren W. Tichenor said United States had made great strides toward equality but he conceded that "we still have significant work to do."

The United States was making its first appearance since 2001 before the experts of the U.N. panel on the elimination of racial discrimination. The 18 independent experts, who are unpaid, periodically review the performance of countries that have signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Linos-Alexander Sicilianos, who led the questioning, said there was overwhelming evidence of police brutality against African-Americans, Arabs and Muslims, Hispanics and other minority groups.

"You need to intensify your efforts at all levels to combat this very alarming phenomenon," Sicilianos, a Greek lawyer on the panel, told the U.S. delegation.

Grace Chung Becker, a U.S. assistant attorney general, told the committee that U.S. law prohibits the use of excessive force by any law enforcement officer against any individual in the United States. The offenders can be punished under criminal law or the victims can bring a civil lawsuit, she said.

Sicilianos said he was pleased that the United States was committed to protect the rights of foreigners regardless of their immigration status, but he said there were numerous failures in living up to its commitments.

"Especially since 9/11, immigrants and refugee communities in the United States have been subjected ... to a range of systematic human rights violations directed by the federal government, local county and state governments, law enforcement agents, employers and private actors," he said.

Sicilianos said he based the accusation on evidence submitted by a large coalition of American human rights groups.

Several other experts on the panel said people of color suffer from racial profiling - being stopped, searched and arrested by police much more than whites are.

"Especially Muslims are suffering from this, and measures are necessary to prevent this from continuing," said Kokou Mawuena Ika Kana Ewomsan, a human rights expert from Togo.

Becker noted that President Bush has said racial profiling "is wrong and we will end it in America."

"The current administration was the first to issue racial profiling guidelines for federal law enforcement officers," she added.

As one of the 173 countries which have ratified the treaty, the United States was taking its turn before the committee this week. A second session is planned for Friday. The United States has submitted a 119-page report to the panel.

Discrimination Complaints Rise 9%, Pregnancy Bias Claims Hit Record High

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received a total of 82,792 private sector discrimination complaints in fiscal year 2007, the highest volume of incoming charges since 2002 and the largest annual increase (9 percent) since the early 1990s, the agency reported.

The data also show that the EEOC recovered $345 million in monetary relief for job bias victims.

According to the EEOC's data for fiscal year 2007, allegations of discrimination based on race, retaliation, and sex were the most frequently filed charges, continuing a long-term trend. Additionally, nearly all major charge categories showed double digit percentage increases from the prior year--a rare occurrence. The agency says that jump in complaints may be due to a combination of factors, including greater awareness of the law, changing economic conditions, and increased diversity and demographic shifts in the labor force.

Last year, for the first time, retaliation was the second highest charge category (behind race), surpassing sex-based charges in total filings with EEOC offices nationwide. Historically, race has been the most frequently filed charge since the EEOC became operational in 1965. In addition to the statutory bases of discrimination, charges filed with the EEOC and state and local Fair Employment Practices Agencies (combined) also trended upward for the high visibility issues of pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment.

During fiscal year 2007, pregnancy-bias complaints surged to a record high level of 5,587, up 14 percent from the prior fiscal year's record of 4,901. Sexual harassment filings increased for the first time since fiscal year 2000, numbering 12,510--up 4 percent from the prior fiscal year's total of 12,025. Additionally, a record 16 percent of sexual harassment charges were filed by men, up from 9 percent in the early 1990s.

Basis of Complaint	FY 2007	FY 2006	Percentage Increase/Historical Comparison
Race	30,510	27,238	Up 12% to highest level since FY 1994
Retaliation	26,663	22,555	Up 18% to record high level, double since FY 1992
Sex/Gender	24,826	23,247	Up 7% to highest level since FY 2002
Age	19,103	16,548	Up 15%, largest annual increase since FY 2002
Disability	17,734	15,575	Up 14% to highest level since FY 1998
National Origin	9,369	8,327	Up 12%, above 9,000 for second time ever
Religion	2,880	2,541	Up 13% to record high level, double since FY 1992
Total Complaints	82,792	75,768	Up 9%, largest annual increase since FY 1993

Hate Groups in America Surging: New Southern Poverty Law Center Report

Black Racism or White Fear? Fear Of Messing Up May Undermine Interracial Contact

ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2008) — Democratic consultant Donna Brazile brought home America's reluctance to talk openly about race in a New York Times article that preceded the Barack Obama speech that now has the whole nation buzzing. In essence, she said in her quote, any serious discussion about race has the effect of clearing a room.

Brazile's remark and the presidential hopeful's groundbreaking speech about a subject that politicians generally tiptoe around in public hint at the complexities of race relations in America today. As we approach the second decade of the 21st century, research shows that many Americans feel anxious during interracial interactions whether or not race is even mentioned. Now a provocative new study from Northwestern University suggests that whites who are particularly worried about appearing racist seem to suffer from anxiety that instinctively may cause them to avoid interaction with blacks in the first place.

Brazile's remark and the presidential hopeful's groundbreaking speech about a subject that politicians generally tiptoe around in public hint at the complexities of race relations in America today. As we approach the second decade of the 21st century, research shows that many Americans feel anxious during interracial interactions whether or not race is even mentioned.

Now a provocative new study from Northwestern University suggests that whites who are particularly worried about appearing racist seem to suffer from anxiety that instinctively may cause them to avoid interaction with blacks in the first place.

"The Threat of Appearing Prejudiced and Race-based Attentional Biases," by Jennifer A. Richeson, associate professor of psychology and African-American studies and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at Northwestern, and Sophie Trawalter, post-doctoral fellow, IPR, recently appeared in the journal Psychological Science.

Study participants indicated that they worry about inadvertently getting in trouble for somehow seeming biased. As a result, the study suggests, they behaved in a way that research shows people respond when faced with stimuli that cause them to feel threatened or anxious: they instinctively look at what is making them feel nervous and then ignore it.

In this case, study participants, 15 white college students, indicated that they were motivated to respond in non-prejudiced ways toward blacks primarily for appearance's sake because of concern about social disapproval -- rather than because of their internal values.

They then took a standard psychological test that measures attention patterns related to anxiety provoking or threatening stimuli. The white students initially focused on images of black faces with neutral expressions, relative to white faces with similar expressions, and then quickly disengaged and paid greater attention to the white faces.

Participants who were selected for the study first had to complete a Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice Scale. Those who were selected had scores that indicated that they were externally, rather than internally, motivated to not appear racially biased. On a one-to-nine scale, they rated their agreement with statements that included: "Because of today's politically correct standards, I try to appear non-prejudiced toward black people."

They then participated in a computer test that featured in all the trials a black face and a white face, with either similar neutral expressions or similar happy expressions. Theoretically, they shouldn't have paid attention to either of the two faces, one black and one white, appearing on either side of the computer screen, because they were told to keep their attention fixated on a cross in the middle of the screen. But, as expected, they inevitably turned their attention to the faces. Because everything happened so fast, however, they weren't aware that they had paid different amounts of attention to black faces, compared to the white faces.

When a dot appeared on the computer screen where one of the faces had previously appeared, they had to quickly say whether it appeared on the right or the left side of the fixation point. Finding the dot the fastest was an indication that attention had been directed to the face that had just disappeared from the position where the dot was displayed.

For the shorter trials (30 milliseconds) with the neutral faces, study participants tended to find the dot quickly when it was located behind the black face, which tended to be the initial focus of attention.

During the slightly longer trials (450 milliseconds), however, the dot-probe test indicated that they tended to quickly turn their attention away from the neutral black face to the white face with the same expression.

"Think of it as initially turning your attention to something that poses a threat or causes anxiety and then ignoring it because you don't want to deal with it," said Richeson. "These low-level psychological processes happen dynamically, and our tests indicate that people probably avoided the neutral black faces because they provoke anxiety, not necessarily because of racial animus."

Patterns of attentional biases were eliminated when the faces were smiling. Well-established clinical and cognitive psychology research shows that people process expressions of emotion quickly, and presumably black male faces with smiling expressions did not seem threatening or provoke anxiety.

The article cites a similar study that tested how children with chronic pain responded to pain-relevant words. In short trials, they tended to look at the pain-relevant words, and in the longer trials they avoided them.

Richeson's study draws from a body of such clinical psychology research on threat and attention. Basically, that research shows that people who have anxiety about various stimuli in everyday life tend to ignore what is stressing them out, unlike people with clinical anxiety, who tend to fixate on what triggers their anxiety.

Richeson stresses in every class she teaches on stereotyping and prejudice that a solution to a problem often presents another problem. Ironically, her study suggests, standards to create a diverse yet harmonious society may unwittingly be encouraging anxious responses toward blacks.

"Norms and standards to achieve diversity are a great solution to undermining racial bias," Richeson said. "Our research suggests that we now also need to start thinking about creating opportunities to undermine anxieties about living up to those standards, to let people know they are going to be okay if they engage in interracial relationships."

Adapted from materials provided by Northwestern University.

A Paler Shade Of Black

Nesrine Malik

March 5, 2008 3:00 PM

The word 'abd - Arabic for "slave" - was often used in our household when I was a child. In fact, it was so common that I had no awareness of its negative connotations until well into my teenage years. My father's family, a proud northern Sudanese clan, used it to refer to anyone who had darker skin than themselves - from southern Sudanese house servants to migrants from Darfur. Sometimes there was a clear intent to demean, but at other times it was used almost affectionately - for example, when addressing a particularly dark-skinned or thick-lipped child.

This was a kind of racism that no one ever challenged or addressed, and it was, through a child's eyes, very straightforward: on a scale of colour, lighter was good, darker was bad. The word 'abd, although strictly meaning "slave" or "servant", became synonymous with negritude. Even my Islamic heritage reinforced this with quotes from the Prophet Muhammad such as "You should listen to and obey your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian [ie black] slave whose head looks like a raisin" (Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 89, Number 256).

When we moved to post-colonial East Africa in the 1980s, 'abd was seamlessly transferred to the locals with whom we interacted only in their capacity as domestic staff or grounds-keepers at international schools. While I myself was "black" of North African descent, my family believed its Arab roots were somehow genetically dominant, giving us smaller features and a marginally lighter skin tone - thus deeming ourselves to be an entirely a different race from the "pure" Africans.

Our next move was to Saudi Arabia, where the Arab ethnicity with which I identified so strongly was suddenly cast into doubt: now it was my turn to be the "slave". My belief that I was an Arab, racially superior to non-Arab Africans, became laughable in the heartland of Arabia - a place where "Arabness" was not only determined by skin colour but by whether you could uninterruptedly trace your lineage back to the founding father of your clan. In fact, ancestry is so important in Saudi Arabia that courts have the power to annul a marriage if gaps are later discovered in a person's lineage, opening up the possibility of blood line pollution.

Beneath the unforgiving scrutiny of such standards, my proud North African Arabic identity crumbled. Somehow, however, it still made some sense and fell into place in a racial spectrum where, at least, I was not on the bottom rung. I could scarcely complain, since among Saudi women themselves there was a brutal selection process where lighter-skinned women were preferred as wives, who in turn were trumped by the blonde blue-eyed babes from Lebanon who dominated satellite TV and the second-wife market.

Eventually, back in Sudan, I was introduced to another logic that negated all that had gone before. In some inverse double bluff, a new word was added to our lexicon: halabi, a pejorative term for Sudanese who are much lighter-skinned than the rest. Halabi actually means a person from Halab (Aleppo) in northern Syria but for some curious reason it was applied to the descendants of Egyptians or Arabian Bedouins who had settled in Sudan.

Apparently, the halabis were just as contemptible as "slaves" and the categorisation of individuals as such seemed even more arbitrary. A marriage suitor would be dismissed if he came from a tribe of slaves, regardless of the colour of his skin, but would equally be frowned upon if he were of Levantine or Egyptian origin. The former was due to his race (irrespective of its physical manifestations) and the latter to his dubious ancestry. There seemed to be such a limited optimal colour/race/culture combination, all underscored by some vague definition of honour (which, naturally, everybody else lacked) and rooted in an even more intangible notion of "origin" (asl), the dubiousness of which implied a lack of breeding. Never mind bemoaning the lack of a common Arab identity, there seemed to be categorisations ad infinitum and constantly moving goalposts. The prejudices cannot even be explained away as reflecting different cultural perceptions of beauty. Throughout Sudan, halabi girls are universally regarded more attractive than their darker counterparts; it is the whiff of a questionable origin - a visceral suspicion of difference - that condemns them, somehow, as less than honourable.

All this plays out against a backdrop of political and media messaging within the Arab world asserting that the Muslim Arab man, in human terms, is far superior to the occidental man. Bilal ibn Rabah, a black disciple of the Prophet Muhammad and first muezzin (caller to prayer) of Islam, is often held up by religious clerics as a symbol of the inclusiveness of Islam, while much is made of the perceived plight of African-Americans in the US.

Egyptian and Syrian soap operas set in colonial times paint the western colonisers as one-dimensional pillagers while western media and films are accused of depicting Arabs in a poor light. Historically, the lack of a modern institutionalised slavery system in the Arab world in addition to the absence of laws enshrining racial segregation (like those that existed in the US until the 20th century) enhances this sense of superiority in comparison to what is perceived to be the "modern" occident.

This sentiment in turn precipitates its own racial stereotype: that of a white man who is fundamentally racist ... polite and patronising ... but ultimately arrogant and fastidious in his belief that all other races are inferior.

Even if that were the case, it is a welcome relief to know where one stands.

Black Men (Man) White Wife (Wives)

The beauty of the internet is that it allows people to post their true feelings, especially when it comes to the issues of  supposed racial superiority. This racist posting, as harsh as it may seem, I think summarizes what most white men think, when they see a  black man with a white women and their off spring. It also represents some of thoughts held by many white men as a reason for the mistreatment and exclusion of dark skinned black men ,women and our children from fair treatment in education, employment, health care and housing. Here is one of the many racist and brutally honest postings I came across. It's very revealing and representative of  some.

Why White Women Dislike Black Men

The hilarious issue, as always, is *why* niggers are so infatuated with
White women. The answer is simple: nigger women are UGLY. Niggers just
want women who have lustrous, silky, straight hair and refined Caucasian
facial features.

The ulitmate irony is how they claim that niggers are superior to White men, even though they desperately crave women that can only be produced by the sperm/genetics of WHITE MEN. The combination of a the airest, blondest, blue-eyed woman with a nigger will only produce another
light-skinned nigger. Only a WHITE MAN can produce the beauty that all muds crave. Here is my classic essay that will shed further light on the nigger's pathetic impetus to evolve:

Have you ever noticed how BADLY black men want White women?? It's the proverbial "every negro's dream". Despite the quantifiable fact (check the next US Census or this url:

http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ms-la/tabms-3.txt 

if you're skeptical) that 95% of people in America marry within their own racial/ethnic group (i.e. Whites w/ Whites, blacks w/ blacks, Asians w/ Asian, latino w/ latino), black men still demonstrate a stronger preference for White women than men from other racial/ethnic groups such as Asian or latino. People are naturally attracted to people who share their physical
characteristics. Although I'm able to appreciate the beauty of women from other racial/ethnic groups, I feel no strong, compelling impulse to reproduce with someone from another race. For example, I can tell you from a personal perspective that a tall White male with blue eyes, fair skin, and light brown/blond hair is going to experience the highest sexual attraction possible to a tall White woman with similar attributes. It's only natural, and similar to the preference that light-skinned negroes exhibit for other light-skinned negroes.

So why DO black men want White women so BADLY??? Poor, pathetic black women spend millions (collectively) every year for products to straighten their hair, EVEN DYEING IT BLOND IN SOME CASES, in an effort to look like a "White woman" so that they can attract and maintain a relationship with a black man. I want to offer some insight into this phenomenon.

1) Fat lips, kinky hair, and broad monstrous noses - While these physical characteristics may understandably be considered attractive in certain areas of Africa, they are considered unattractive to other races. The black men simply don't want to curse their descendents with physical traits that are regarded as unsightly by the dominant races, so they endeavor to dilute their African genetic code with a European genetic code. They want a daughter who looks like Mariah Carey or Vanessa Williams, rather than "Aunt Jemima" or the woman who gave birth to (professional basketball player) Patrick Ewing.

2) What better way to get back at "Whitey" for slavery, elevate your status among the "homeboys", and bolster your negro self-esteem, than to have sex with a White woman!!! Never mind that most of these White women are overweight, ugly, have low self-esteem, or have been rejected by White society for some reason and therefore must "settle" for a black man out of desperation... White is White!!! It still gives a reason for a homeboy to dance and clap in the pews at church and shout "Glorbee Hallelujah!!!". It's just a shame that these homeboys regard black women as "second-rate".

3) Forbidden Fruit - (this matter is somewhat complex) As American adolescents enter puberty, they begin to notice and explore media images (TV shows, movies, magazines) of attractive members of the opposite sex that are used to sell products such as candy, soft drinks, acne medication, clothing and anything else that teenagers can purchase with their disposable income. Because of the fact that America is approximately 75% White, and for obvious economic reasons, most of the images used in the mass media are of attractive Caucasians. This is probably the source of the black man's "fixation" on White women, and ultimately the source of great frustration for the male negro. This frustration is caused by societal pressures on white women to not be "social failures" who date negro men, hence the "forbidden fruit", and because the vast majority of White women are not attracted to negro men for the same reason that White men are usually not attracted to negro women. If you don't believe that White men (horny or not)
are not attracted to negro women, consider this... How many WEALTHY White men (who are usually favored by most women of any race) do you see marrying or even dating black women??? The "trophy" has always been a young, attractive White woman, and I guarantee you that this situation will never
change.

4) Evolution - Perhaps it's an effort to "evolve" and advance their race. In the black man's estimation, a kid who is 50% white is better than a kid who is 100% black (or has two parents of primarily African genetics). When comparing the number of engineers, doctors, lawyers, scientists, published authors, and successful business professionals who are White verses the
number who are black... even Snoop Doggy Dogg could do the math on that one. If the black man wanted black kids, he would pursue a BLACK WOMAN, but knowing that he can never become "white", he does the next best thing. The so-callled "black pride" is sacrificed as the pursuit of the White woman becomes the negro's Holy Grail. The negro males just want to secure for their offspring what they either consciously or subconsciously perceive as "better genetics", i.e. the genetics of better looking or smarter people. If they thought black women were the other half of the "formula" for producing attractive and intelligent children, they would pursue BLACK WOMEN.

If a literate negroid has read this far, he is probably trying to console himself by asserting that White women have sex with black men because of large black penises. First of all, ask any gynecologist and he/she will tell you that a woman's vagina comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. Most women do not have a coarse, oversized vagina that needs a freakishly large penis
to be properly filled. Given that a woman's vagina can expand to accomodate the birth of a baby, and that many women enjoy digital and oral stimulation, size issues are irrelevant. Furthermore, check out any of 10 billion porn sites on the Web, and you'll soon discover that a White man can posess a very large penis. The myth of the black male penis is just that, a myth.

However, other than running and jumping ability, most negro men just don't have much else in which to take pride, so they obsess over their penis and live their lives in a state of permanent adolescence. REAL sexual satisfaction has everything to do with an emotional/spiritual connection, and NOTHING to do with the physical aspects of "gettin' a groove on", and
this is why most White women avoid partially-evolved apes.

You'll find the original  posting here:

http://www.voy.com/167608/7.html

As evidence by the above racist tirade, Black men must understand the extent of the fear and insecurity of most white males . (The words: large penis, small penis and black penis are typed in over two million times a month across the net and I assure you its not Black men who are typing these sick phrases. During lynching parties, white men would often castrate their Black victims.)

There seems to be a collective determination globally, to make sure we stay at the bottom of the economic and social ladder.  As Black people, if we really want change, it must start with our love and support for our family,our community, and ourselves. Our very survival depends on it.

Mulattos: One Drop Of Black Blood- Some Blacks Who Have Passed For White Or Vice Versa?

Most Black people know, primarily due to slavery, we have a mixture of of races in our family history. Despite the variations in our skin color and hair texture, most of us still see ourselves as Black. But many of us have encountered whites, who when you look at their facial features , hair texture and body composition, we know that they have African roots somewhere in their family. When I've gotten to know a few whites who fall into this category, when asked, most are in immediate denial, because of the historical, social and political stigma of being  identified as Black in America or any where else throughout the world ,where whites are the dominent culture. Henry Louis Gates, with the help of DNA testing, reveals one family's secret.

Oprah Recently Pointed Out On Her Show, Over 40% Of Whites Have Black Ancestry. If They Know It, I Wonder How Many Would Acknowledge It?

One Caucasian couple discovers the deep secrets that genetics can hide when their baby is born with African American features. FAMILY TREE is the thought-provoking book by Barbara Delinsky that explores race and family.

Creols-Light Skin Blacks

The historical racism of some whites throughout history has caused many Blacks, especially those who are light skinned, to deny and hide who they really are. Some have done  it based on economic and social survival. Some choose to pass due to self hatred and denial. Many Creols were not fully accepted in either world.