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A review by lpm100
Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter by Rajen Persaud
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"Why Black Men Love White Women."
0/5 stars
"Painful updating of Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks '"
-17 chapters over 252 pages; 15 pages per chapter.
-Possibly 4~5 hours worth of reading time, but it was so bad I did not finish it all.
Recently, I purchased a series of books about interracial relationships, and the last book that I read was written from the perspective of Black ladies who were interested in White/non-Black men.
I'd thought that this book would be something like that, except maybe from the male perspective.
As it turns out, it was nothing even close. (Not even a single interview from a real couple.)
Lot of problems with this book (which is written by a washed-up/ never-was comic of whom I don't find a single video on YouTube), and I don't want to get into all of them because I don't want to invest any more time necessary in this already DREADFUL book.
I started out reading the first chapter and it was so bombastic and silly that I decided to go back and read the conclusion as well as one midpoint chapter to see if it was worth it.
It emphatically was not worth it.
§PROBLEM: The absolute deal breaker was his citation of the Willie Lynch letter--which everybody over 13 years old knows is a hoax.
§PROBLEM: There are 236 citations in the book, but 72 of them are "ibid." (Down to 164 sources.)
11 of the citations are to sound recordings. (Stevie wonder, etc).
7 of the citations are TV interviews.
Frantz Fanon is cited over and over again (along with Nikki Giovanni and Eldridge Cleaver).
§PROBLEM: a lot of the book is empirically false. Mixed relationships between black men and white women are not new, and in fact the first mixed marriage between a black guy and a white girl in the United States happened in 1680. ("Black man and white women are just getting to know each other." p.147)
§PROBLEM: a lot of these things don't depend on race. (p.146: "More often than not, the women are looking for it liberation, a better financial situation, or just to be taken care of.") Who didn't know that some women are looking for a better financial situation? Or that broke guys have a harder time attracting mates?
§PROBLEM: The author wants to try to convince us that black guys like white ladies because they're suffering from some type of racial trauma / internalized self-hatred (blah blah blah).
It's like nobody has any agency.
Or, that nobody could prefer one thing as opposed to another just because. (Who could ever guess WHY some guys would think that a woman with no pubic hair was desirable? Could I make to the case those guys "You only feel that way because of something that somebody has told you and that you have internalized; And if you want to undo this sickness then you need to visit wearehairy.com)
If you did it by the numbers, and you were a black guy who had 2,000 ladies to choose from, 1000 white and 1000 black.
Let's say that you do not want to deal with a lady that was.... not so smart (and that is an extremely laborious task) and you wanted to set your IQ cut off to 100.
1000 White ladies would turn into 500 White ladies.
1000 Black ladies would turn into about 150 Black ladies.
Then, let's say that you were somewhat sensitive about, um, feminine odor. (I think you can imagine how it would ruin a sexual encounter if all the paint peeled off the walls and the plants died when your lady shed her underwear.)
Bacterial vaginosis rates: 51% for Black and 23% for White.
150 black ladies would reduce to 74 and 500 white ladies would reduce to 385.
(Source: https://www.cdc.gov/std/bv/stats.htm)
So, discounting whatever your opinions are about what is / is not attractive, you would conclude that:
1. Dating pool of White compared to an equal number of Black women already has 5.2 more suitable of one than the other.
2. Most of either race are not suitable, but the differences are dramatic. 38.5% of a random sample of white would be suitable as opposed to 7.4% of a sample of black.
And that is just based on those two factors.
The operative question becomes: how much "chaff" you want to sort through for some amount of "wheat" that is completely fungible. ("You turn them upside down and they all look the same.")
It's also interesting that this author is very obviously the product of an interracial relationship (he has an Indian name, so I guess his mother was the black partner), and could have a negative opinion on something like this.
Verdict: Emphatically NOT RECOMMENDED.
"Why Black Men Love White Women."
0/5 stars
"Painful updating of Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks '"
-17 chapters over 252 pages; 15 pages per chapter.
-Possibly 4~5 hours worth of reading time, but it was so bad I did not finish it all.
Recently, I purchased a series of books about interracial relationships, and the last book that I read was written from the perspective of Black ladies who were interested in White/non-Black men.
I'd thought that this book would be something like that, except maybe from the male perspective.
As it turns out, it was nothing even close. (Not even a single interview from a real couple.)
Lot of problems with this book (which is written by a washed-up/ never-was comic of whom I don't find a single video on YouTube), and I don't want to get into all of them because I don't want to invest any more time necessary in this already DREADFUL book.
I started out reading the first chapter and it was so bombastic and silly that I decided to go back and read the conclusion as well as one midpoint chapter to see if it was worth it.
It emphatically was not worth it.
§PROBLEM: The absolute deal breaker was his citation of the Willie Lynch letter--which everybody over 13 years old knows is a hoax.
§PROBLEM: There are 236 citations in the book, but 72 of them are "ibid." (Down to 164 sources.)
11 of the citations are to sound recordings. (Stevie wonder, etc).
7 of the citations are TV interviews.
Frantz Fanon is cited over and over again (along with Nikki Giovanni and Eldridge Cleaver).
§PROBLEM: a lot of the book is empirically false. Mixed relationships between black men and white women are not new, and in fact the first mixed marriage between a black guy and a white girl in the United States happened in 1680. ("Black man and white women are just getting to know each other." p.147)
§PROBLEM: a lot of these things don't depend on race. (p.146: "More often than not, the women are looking for it liberation, a better financial situation, or just to be taken care of.") Who didn't know that some women are looking for a better financial situation? Or that broke guys have a harder time attracting mates?
§PROBLEM: The author wants to try to convince us that black guys like white ladies because they're suffering from some type of racial trauma / internalized self-hatred (blah blah blah).
It's like nobody has any agency.
Or, that nobody could prefer one thing as opposed to another just because. (Who could ever guess WHY some guys would think that a woman with no pubic hair was desirable? Could I make to the case those guys "You only feel that way because of something that somebody has told you and that you have internalized; And if you want to undo this sickness then you need to visit wearehairy.com)
If you did it by the numbers, and you were a black guy who had 2,000 ladies to choose from, 1000 white and 1000 black.
Let's say that you do not want to deal with a lady that was.... not so smart (and that is an extremely laborious task) and you wanted to set your IQ cut off to 100.
1000 White ladies would turn into 500 White ladies.
1000 Black ladies would turn into about 150 Black ladies.
Then, let's say that you were somewhat sensitive about, um, feminine odor. (I think you can imagine how it would ruin a sexual encounter if all the paint peeled off the walls and the plants died when your lady shed her underwear.)
Bacterial vaginosis rates: 51% for Black and 23% for White.
150 black ladies would reduce to 74 and 500 white ladies would reduce to 385.
(Source: https://www.cdc.gov/std/bv/stats.htm)
So, discounting whatever your opinions are about what is / is not attractive, you would conclude that:
1. Dating pool of White compared to an equal number of Black women already has 5.2 more suitable of one than the other.
2. Most of either race are not suitable, but the differences are dramatic. 38.5% of a random sample of white would be suitable as opposed to 7.4% of a sample of black.
And that is just based on those two factors.
The operative question becomes: how much "chaff" you want to sort through for some amount of "wheat" that is completely fungible. ("You turn them upside down and they all look the same.")
It's also interesting that this author is very obviously the product of an interracial relationship (he has an Indian name, so I guess his mother was the black partner), and could have a negative opinion on something like this.
Verdict: Emphatically NOT RECOMMENDED.