What Jill Scott has to say about interracial couples...

[balloonoboy]

In the April issue of Essence

My new friend is handsome, African-American, intelligent and seemingly wealthy. He is an athlete, loves his momma, and is happily married to a White woman. I admit when I saw his wedding ring, I privately hoped. But something in me just knew he didn’t marry a sister. Although my guess hit the mark, when my friend told me his wife was indeed Caucasian, I felt my spirit…wince. I didn’t immediately understand it. My face read happy for you. My body showed no reaction to my inner pinch, but the sting was there, quiet like a mosquito under a summer dress.

Was I jealous? Did the reality of his relationship somehow diminish his soul’s credibility? The answer is not simple. One could easily dispel the wince as racist or separatist, but that’s not how I was brought up. I was reared in a Jehovah’s Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me. African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded. We share our culture sometimes to our own peril and most of us love the very notion of love. My position is that for women of color, this very common “wince

 

[l knicks fresh knick l]

read the 1st and 2nd paragraphs, and stopped when she said was she jealous? she replied not quite.. i went stop lying..

and i dont know about you other Niketalkers. but i dig the fact that more and more interracial couples are coming together. I dig interracial couples.

shows ignorance is being fought slowly ...

 

[nawth21]

It's hard as hell to find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. It really is. Limiting yourself just makes it that much harder. Or sometimes that person who you thought wasn't your type (because of race, religion, socio-economic background, etc) ends up being the other half of your essence. We don't plan for that, but it happens.


Celebrate love. Regardless of color or creed.

 

[guillermo gutierez]

u should be with whoever u want to be with for whatever reason u want to be with them.

 

[sirius lee handsome]

This topic has been discussed on this site several times, most recently about a week ago or something

 

[juju]

^ pretty much all that needs to be said.

WAH WAH WAH...

 

[jdocs]

Sounds like she needs to find her self a white man

 

[hizzle]

"Did the reality of his relationship somehow diminish his soul’s credibility? The answer is not simple."Uhhhh, yes it is. The answer is no. We live in a different time now with different social norms. You can't make decisions based off what people did generations ago. If that were the case, no black or white people would befriend each other.

 

[im not you]

As expected...many of you will either 1) not understand or 2) ignore the point of her message and just pass her off as a jealous racist black woman.

 

[p mac one]

I really don't have a problem with interracial relationships.

That said, from a black woman's perspective I completely understand the sting they may feel when successful black men go for white women.

As for myself, I could see "dating" a white girl but when it comes time to find a wifey I need someone with a fatty who can cook and that pretty much eliminates white girls.

 

[jdocs]

Originally Posted by Im Not You

As expected...many of you will either 1) not understand or 2) ignore the point of her message and just pass her off as a jealous racist black woman.

Please try and explain her statement to me.

 

[mosthated770]

Nawth21 GREAT post...

 

[davidisgodly]

Originally Posted by balloonoboy

In the April issue of Essence

My new friend is handsome, African-American, intelligent and seemingly wealthy. He is an athlete, loves his momma, and is happily married to a White woman. I admit when I saw his wedding ring, I privately hoped. But something in me just knew he didn’t marry a sister. Although my guess hit the mark, when my friend told me his wife was indeed Caucasian, I felt my spirit…wince. I didn’t immediately understand it. My face read happy for you. My body showed no reaction to my inner pinch, but the sting was there, quiet like a mosquito under a summer dress.

Was I jealous? Did the reality of his relationship somehow diminish his soul’s credibility? The answer is not simple. One could easily dispel the wince as racist or separatist, but that’s not how I was brought up. I was reared in a Jehovah’s Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me. African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded. We share our culture sometimes to our own peril and most of us love the very notion of love. My position is that for women of color, this very common “wince

 

[zerogravity23]

he found happiness, what's wrong with that?

SNS.

 

[championedition]

shes entitled to her own, albeit fat as %@%+, opinion.

we should strive to become better human beings thru cross breeding.

staying within your race is selfish for your own children.

thats why the amount of children with defects are rising also.

cause people like this fat broad wanna continue to inbreed within her own race.

its not that my white girlfriend is white... its cause shes sexually attractive.
where as jill scott is fat as %@%+ and jiggly. not unlike a jigglypuff and or wigglytuff.

and pmac... my girl cook better than most black women i know over the age of 50.
black women arent the best chefs in the world.
mexican women are.

 

[neverflopped]

Reading this (just the first couple of paragraphs b/c I stopped caring) all I could think of is her in the movie "why did I get married" with how her ex constantly made fun of her, and then her facial expressions after his comments lol

 

[ravagebx]

Originally Posted by RavageBX

Whata cruel joke we've played on ourselves, to sit here and act as if weAfrican American males have no fault in this. Why is it that wechampion interracial relationships as if dating within our own ranks isundesirable? Seems like every other ethnicity loves their own more thanwe do. "Black love" is but a fleeting memory of a time when we neededeach other. With dismal incarceration, death and education statisticscoupled along with racism and false concepts of beauty embedded in ourcollective psyche, it's no wonder they're feeling some kind of way.Wouldn't you?

Oh and contempt and jealousy? Get over yourselves.

I'm not saying you'd be jealous but you'd feel some kinda way. Maybejust a little hurt. After all those years of fighting for equality andacceptance it's like we don't need each other anymore. Actually morelike we think we don't need them. And we couldn't be any more wrong.

Sums up what I had to say in the other thread and pretty much mirrors Ms. Scott's sentiments. I have no problem with interracial relationships. I think they're great and definitely a step forward. However, I do have a problem with this mentality of abandonment. Lots of black men walking around acting like they don't need black women. I don't see how any self-respecting black man can say he would never or will never date a black girl and look their mothers in the faces.

 

[93snakedfox]

Originally Posted by davidisgodly

this is how black people end articles?

 

[toy collector123]

I'm in an interracial relationship. From the outside looking in, its hard to understand. From the inside looking out, its even harder to explain

 

[btk]

she's so fat and has all this attitude, how can you expect to get a man like that? ok ok you got DSL but still.

 

[Coupé It]

Maybe Black Women should become more positive towards the progress of the black man, maybe that would help

 

[quincy powell]

I agree with Ravage. Like it's cool to date whoever but these same people always put black women down as well. Makes no sense.

 

[optimusprimeaphia]

Shes dumb as hell. Shes mad cause she can't get hers. I'm tired of all these black women guilt tripping people for making their own damn choices. When will this nonsense stop?

 

[nako xl]

I hear what she's saying, I understand, and even agree.

But we can't always choose who we love.  I think it's safe to say, everyone at some point or another has inexplicably fallen for someone they had no idea they could ever even be attracted to, or even wished they WEREN'T so attracted to.

Originally Posted by Nawth21

It's hard as hell to find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. It really is. Limiting yourself just makes it that much harder. Or sometimes that person who you thought wasn't your type (because of race, religion, socio-economic background, etc) ends up being the other half of your essence. We don't plan for that, but it happens.


Celebrate love. Regardless of color or creed.

Fingers crossed that my son HueyP doesn't come in here and call me an Uncle Tom

 

[magik ink 23]

Originally Posted by JDocs

Sounds like she needs to find her self a white man

That's EXACTLY what I was going to say.

No one chooses their color.