NuevaVida -> RE: black/racial domination (2/3/2009 5:45:54 AM)
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ORIGINAL: 4u2spoil As someone from Chicago, I have to clear something up. A close relative taught in the projects. At her retirement dinner, several of her students, including one who'd completed his doctorate and went on to teach college students talked about how she'd inspired them. Not everyone from the inner city grows up to become a crackhead pissing in the hallways, or looks at drug dealing as the top of the career ladder or ultimate inspiration. I didn't grow up thinking shaking my ass in a video was the most I could aspire to, or that I should have kids for checks. I didn't grow up in the inner city, but some of my friends did and they weren't trying to be the next Larry Hoover or Supahead either. Everyone who grows up in a trailer park doesn't end up on a Faces of Meth poster, and not every black person from the ghetto ends up waiting for some naive white girl to drive down their block so they can get some ass. quote:
ORIGINAL: UPSG And neither did I tell Little A to avoid Black men. I cautioned her about her choice given - not biological reasons - current sociological factors going on today. I clearly noted many (at least of Gen X on downward) have loss socio-economic grounds (this is according to social scientists, although it is my personal observation as well) and my generation (at least in my part of the Midwest) has been more influenced by Larry Hoover than Martin Luther King. You don't have to be a gang member or a crack dealer to be influenced by persons of fame like Larry Hoover or by your immediate environment. Interesting discussion, and I agree with 4u2spoil. I recently met a dom who is black, and in our conversations I learned we both grew up in the South (SF) Bay Area. When he told me the neighborhood he grew up in, I laughed and said "Ohhh, you're from THAT part of town! I wasn't allowed to go to THAT part of town...hahaha" We laughed, it was no biggy. The man has his Masters degree in finance/economics, goes to church, and has his own business. We've had some fun and lively discussions. I asked him, "So what will your friends think if you start bringing a white chick around?" He laughed and said "My friends accept what's mine, and if they don't, they're not my friends." One thing I found on the CM side of this site, is when I'm contacted by someone who is not caucasion, they almost always include something in their introductory email to the effect of, "If race isn't an issue for you..." I think it's crazy-sad that they even feel the need to write that. As for the OP...good lord there's nothing different in her preference for black men than if I were to come here saying I want a hot Italian stud, or I want a blonde haired, blue eyed hunny.
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