I like to make jokes about it because it’s such a *thing* that you can’t help but laugh. To me, I just don’t understand it. How can you not be attracted to any person who is not white? How can you look at the wide variety of black men on this planet and say they are all uniformly unattractive? I think that’s crazy and it makes me chuckle.
But is it really racist? Let’s look at it from both sides.
That is an actual headline this morning after a shootout with police left one of the Boston bombers dead while the other is still at large.
Heavy into hip-hop. Because, if you hadn’t noticed, these boys look too white and the media is pouncing on anything brown they can find, no matter how small or irrelevant. One of the suspects is dead. And he is decidedly not brown.
And he still has his job. And he has cooning black folks trying to defend him. And his half-assed explanation holds absolutely no water, of course, because it never does.
Zimmerman’s defense team obviously failed PR 101 because whoever is letting Robert Zimmerman Jr. run around flapping his gums is totally not on top of this.
On Saturday, Zimmerman went on a Twitter tirade against “black teens,” equating the boy killed by his brother with De’Marquise Elkins, the 17-year-old suspect in the murder of a Georgia infant.
As highlighted by Mediaite, Zimmerman tweeted a photo comparison between Elkins and Martin flipping their middle fingers with the caption, “A picture speaks a thousand words…Any questions?”
OK not really. Jada is just trying to start a dialogue and made a mock-up of a fake cover with Charlize Theron.
And Ms. Pinkett-Smith has written a little Facebook post asking the public our opinion on it, which clearly means she sees no problem with that, because she’s asking for co-signers. Personally, I hadn’t even thought to bring it up because to me it seemed very clear that no, white people should not be on the cover of Essence.
This is where everyone can take a break from reading to flood my inbox with “omg u r so racist / that is so racist / why r blk ppl allowed to be racist / reverse racism” messages. But hear me out.
But still, it’s an interesting note because people like to say that racism isn’t relevant anymore and if we just stop talking about it, it will go away. In the grand scheme of things, what porn stars will and won’t do on screen really has no bearing on my life, but this is just one example of how the world reminds people of color that we are not white and therefore inferior in the eyes of the white establishment.
Look at this photo.
