Has anyone seen the book "Why Black Men Love White Women" by Rajen Persaud? I saw the book at Barnes and Noble yesterday. The cover is good. Hope for your replies.
Check this link for reviews and an excerpt http://www.amazon.com/Why-Black-Lov...7496402?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193703607&sr=1-1 Not sure about it though... the forbidden fruit theory is kind of annoying, not??
I work next do a Borders bookstore. The cover is nice enough but the Author presents a very unflattering picture of WW/BM relationships. He leaves no stereotype unturned as he bashes black men for stepping through 1000 good black women to get to that White woman. Look, I work in a large independent Black Bookstore. I am very familiar with African American books, publishers and authors. 90% of the African Americans who write, publish, and read those books are black women. The book is written to please black women as an audience, plain and simple.
Honestly, i do not give a fuck who likes who, but what i do care about is the double standard in the black community. A black woman can write a poem about her affection for white men and it's all good, but a brotha can't even look at a white woman and not get castrated by black women. As much as it's disgusting, that double standard exists.
"Love in Black & White" by Mark & Gail Mathabane was an EXCELLENT read....nothing less.. An' outta the 1500 hardcover tomes that I owned, that *IS* one of the top 10 on my list of personal favourites! OpinionsCartoonStudios@yahoo.co.uk
This topic really confused me: - there is a fairly famous British psychiatrist with the same name, and I thought it was the same person... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Persaud fortunately not! Book looks like a pile of c**p though.
OMG...I read Kaffir Boy in America by Mark Mathabane....usually w/books I either buy them or if I'm at the library...I'll take them home but his was the first book where I just sat in the library and read it even after checking it out.