| December 9, 2003 Black, White, Philadelphia Eagles, and Origins --Not sure if you’ve heard this tidbit of sports news, but a couple black NFL players have been receiving some no so benevolent fan mail lately. Seems a couple white folk have some words to say about their black counterparts who can catch passes and tackle quarterbacks better than them. Check out the story here. Of course cause Freddie Mitchell is one of my peeps, being a Philadelphia Eagle and all, I have to represent from South Street and claim them specific white folk as racist bastards. No doubt racism exists still today. And no doubt we all have a little of it in different ways. Funny thing though cause we’re technically all the same race and have a common ancestor (more on that later). The whole white/black/interracial dating/marriage thing is pretty sketchy though. Personally, I think skin color has only superficial meaning when it comes to deep, emotional relationships, much like height, weight, and hair color. So to think its “wrong” for a black and white girl to get together solely based on their racial incompatibility is not only ignorant and racist, but it’s intellectually and emotionally flawed. What I think some people (who may be good-hearted induviduals) that are against that type of union are trying to say though, which inevitably comes off as racism, is that when people of separate races inter-marry, you’re going to deal with differences and inevitable problems that wouldn’t arise if you married someone of the same race/culture. That’s a solid fact and I doubt anyone would argue the couple and/or their children will have to deal with persecution one way or another, whether or not the union is right or wrong. That’s just life and that’s just reality. So my only advice to interracial couples is just understand what you’re signing up for, much like any couple. But in this case, more factors are involved because we’re not all color-blind unfortunately. Personally, I’ll be honest and say I am attracted to women of other races physically and personality wise. Maybe it’s my exposure to Japanese influenced video gaming, but I find myself physically attracted to a couple Japanese chicks. Them Spanish chiqutas on the Univision are HOT HOT HOT!!! And I think girls like Tyra Banks and Beonce Knowles are sweet chocolate...yummy. And if some Arabic girls would take those darn drapes wrapped around their heads off, there’s some hotties from the Middle East, no doubt (see Afghan hot babe MSNBC article). What I will be honest and say though is that I’ve never found myself attracted to these women to the point that I’d want to spend the rest of my life married to them (which hasn’t been specifically ever the case for me with a white girl, but the potential is realized). If I said that in a weird way, I will disclaim is has nothing to do with consciously not wanting to marry a girl of different race, it’s just my attractions how I feel them. You can’t make someone like a girl so much, no matter how color-blindness you want to be. Much like we all have our different physical preferences...slim, athletic, short, tall, busty, blonde, brunette, etc. I guess I what I’m trying to say is the whole “affirmative action” thing doesn’t fly in the “affirmative attraction” realm. Maybe it’s because I’ve yet to really get to know a girl of another race in an intimate relationship, and by no means am I counting that possibility out, but at this point, I just don’t feel that whole “marriage” attraction. Maybe it’s the environment I grew up in I don’t know, but it feels natural to me to not have that “marriage” attraction for some reason. There doesn't seem to be anything "sinful" about that if there's no hate or superiority involved. I have two observations I’d like to mention that have vexed me and my white-suburban, middle-class racial ignorance. The first is: why is an offspring of a one white parent and one black parent 100% of the time considered of black race? If no intermediate race exists to define them, then wouldn’t statistical analysis indicate that 50% of those children should be considered black and 50% considered white? The same could be said for the child of a white and asian parent. That child will be considered asian, but it's half caucasian also. These are just a couple examples. *Case being Tiger Woods whom father is black and mother is asian, two distinctly separate races. Yet Tiger Woods is undoubtedly considered black. Shouldn’t he be blasian or something? **This observation by no means attempts to demean any race or any person with a mixed racial heritage. It’s just addressing a social conundrum, or maybe a social identity crisis. The second observation, and relative to the initial sports story aforementioned, is the situation of interracial couple specifically between a black man and a white woman and vice versa. Rights or wrongs aside (in which case I’m neutral, neither condoning nor condemning said interracial relationships, just know what you’re getting into), it’s been my observation, and some may agree or disagree relative to their observations, but I’ve noticed many more “black men with white women” relationships than I have “white men with black women” ones. Neither condemning nor condoning either one, this just seems to be the observational case. Is there a specific reason for this or is it just unusual polarization? Vexing either way. *Remember, I’m Switzerland when it comes to races issues. Then why bring them up then Keith? Well, it’s a reality that race plays a part in our world and always has. I’m just addressing my times. Chill... And speaking of the history of the world and races, it’s common knowledge that we’re all of the same race technically (homo-sapiens). We all have ten fingers and toes, a brain, a heart, a sense of eternity, hope, imagination, and guilt, and we all like BMW’s, the Lord of the Rings movies, and Playstation 2. What?!? You don’t!?!? Er...ok, back to reason. Anyways, confirming what we already knew from the Bible, science continues to add substance to the Biblical account that mankind came from a common human ancestor somewhere in the Middle East/Africa. Please see the following articles. Chromosome Study Stuns Evolutionists: Searching For Adam New Y Chromosome Studies Continue to Support a Recent Origin and Spread of Humanity Anyways, we all know how the story goes from there... Man spreads around the Middle East, God floods Mesopatamia (the “world” at that time), Noah and his yo’s repopulate the Earth and then we got the Tower of Babel thing and then we got races as we know them today and people spread out populating all the corners of the Earth, caucasians populating Eurasia, asians populating Asia, blacks populating Middle East and Africa, arabs populating Middle East and surrounding area, Native Americans and Hispanics going X-treme walking and populating North and South America...yada, yada, yada, anthropological history... So that’s in a nutshell how our races came about. But it still doesn’t change the fact we all have the same great, great, great...to the like 20th power, grandfather and grandmother. So we’re not all that different when you look under the skin at the DNA heritage. So next time you see someone of a different race, that person could be your like 1,024th cousin. |