White Women: Agents of Change Against Racism

I truly believe that white women are the true warriors or agents of change against racism especially, toward the black male. Granted there are white women who are racists too, but a great many white women recognize the true root of racism historically has been over them. White women were seen as the prize on the pedestal that must be protected at all cost. The history is replete with horrific violence toward the black man from hangings, castration, murder, humiliation and disfranchisement that led to Jim Crow segregation as an excuse to keep black men away from white women. We saw historically what happened to such men as Jack Johnson and many others. I know many white women are reluctant to talk about this out of guilt that many feel of past wrongs, but I believe they (white women) are reaching a crossroad in this country in the WW/BM relationship with a President (Obama) born of such a union, the rights of women, the growing independence of women to vocally tell those in the media and society at large that yes "my body is mine and I will give it to who the hell I want with it". White sisters, truly stand up and speak it.

 

I personally think this is great post. It reminds me of the deleted scene in American History X when the father saw the ir couple and said "some things aren't sacred anymore". The laws and times have tried to white women away from black "beasts" so hard but eventually mixing was going to happen. In fact it was already happening, different thing was it was illegal. Now that interracial is accepted in most parts of the world, I see a lot of the youth intermingling. This must be giving white nationalists nightmares when they sleep.

 

I'm not saying that because I'm a woman, but I do think women are a great agent of change in societies. Great post!

 

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Perhaps so. You are correct. We'll say that most white women are aware of that. In the past, women were oppressed also, like we were as well. Maybe (from that perspective), it makes sense why some of them think the way they do.

 

All women and not just white women were opressed and discriminated against. ( and in many societies they still are - sorry, in MOST societies )
So its natural that we sometimes find common cause with other disavantaged groups, in this discussion, with black people.
But white women are not dating men of other races just to break down barriers. We are just falling in love with men who may be black.
And because of this, many of us are even more discriminated against.

 

All the more reason I have deep respect for those of you who cross the forbidden frontier. I'm reminded of Eleanore Roosevelt (The wife of Franklin Roosevelt) if I spelled her name correctly. She was scorned and ostracized because she willingly decided to fly in a plane with a black pilot at the famed all black Tuskegee school. She wanted to prove her confidence in the ability of the black pilot at a time when blacks were prevented from taking part in many professions in this country based on intelligence and compentency. She did not care what people thought of her. The press at the time belittled her. She was called a "nigger loving bitch" throughout the South. She is one of my heroes.

 

I love your heart in this post. I think the bigger confession here is one loves who they love. Has nothin' to do with color.

Awesome post, blacktiger!!!!! :smt039

 

Thank you. I'm originally from Baltimore myself. I was born in South Baltimore on Carroll Street. Was raised on North Avenue, grew up on Francis Street (around the block from Druid Hill Park). And lived with my grandmother on Brighton street in West Baltimore. My high school was Carver Vocational Technical High School. Good having you here my fellow Baltimorean.

 

CARVER Vo-tech????? Are you serious??? SO did I! Class of 1995.

GO BEARS!!!!!!

 

Awesome post, makes me proud to be a woman!

 

Here I am thinking my lady loved because she saw me and not my racial designation. Come to find out shorty is racial crusader lmao.
You give ww too much credit my friend. People just love who they love and that can't be helped. If anything I think the men take a much bigger risk since we're the ones who have violence and other ills directed at us.
The more time I spend on here the more I realize most of us are a bunch of fetishists. Smh

 

All this time, I thought the main white female characters in the John Persons interracial comics were crusaders for agents of change...

 

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Sorry, you're not you. You're just a BM and that's all she cares about

I think that you're right though, with y'all men taking more of a risk. Often the point is made that the women take the risk due to family rejection, losing the family trust fund and things like that... but if you love someone, none of that matters. It has more of an emotional impact, which the right partner could help with overcoming and move forward.
Actual violence though is much harder to overcome and can be more constant, by different people rather than just one or two families. I don't think violence and othe ills cannot just be ignored or brushed off the way a hurtful comment can.

I guess we (as WW and BM) take the risks because we realize love is love, regardless of the amount of melanin we have... and because those we love are worth it.:heart:

 

ROFLMAO - WW to the rescue!

 

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HEY we love the love, don't take that away from us. And um I hope you share this with your gf..I'm sure she will appreciate this observation:
" Come to find out shorty is racial crusader lmao."

 

Shes the most socially aware person Ive ever met Im sure she'd get a kick out of it. I always assumed most of us just gravitated towards people we liked I didnt think there was a social agenda attached to it.

 

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. While we love who we love, there is a reason for everything we do, including who we choose to be with, whether we are consciously laying that out in our minds. If I choose to only go with black women, I believe that is just as much of a "social" choice as the one I made a long time ago, with white women as my "affectional" preference. Many people want to "preserve the race" so they choose a mate based on that desire whether they admit it to themselves or not, and I think that is a social choice, even if it is more mainstream.