It’s very ironic that mainstream media is pushing IRs on Black women, given our painful history. When we push back against it, we’re being called “racist”, or “bigoted”, blind to their own prejudices. They just project their longstanding racism/ethnocentrism onto sistas, scapegoating us while they believe in their arrogance and lies with ease and without consequences.
Please forgive me if you think the title question was/is ignorant. Or stupid. Or pointless. I thought the same when I saw the question posed on my Facebook feed. Check it out:
Facebook names and photos have been blocked to protect the guilty, lol
My (former) Facebook friend went on to say that #blacklove and websites like BlackPeopleMeet.com promote segregation, since they celebrate only dating within your race and people should just be “happy within their love”. My answer to our ignorant Jane Doe is this:
Usually, people hashtag ‘black love” to combat the very popular belief that black men and black women cannot hold healthy relationships with one another. For years, public discourse has been about black men not wanting black women because they prefer women of other races over black women. And for years, public discourse has been about black women not being able to “keep a man” or…
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