The Yankees shortstop, Derek Jeter, received a letter calling him a race traitor. This got me thinking about the ridiculousness of some of this "race" crap.
First off, just what race is Jeter? For those that don't follow baseball, Jeter's mom is white, while his dad is black. Derek himself looks like a white guy with a nice tan. In the letter, Jeter is called a "race traitor" for dating white women.
Is he only supposed to date women that are products of other mixed race couples? Clearly the letter writer feels that Jeter should be dating black women. Evidently, having a black father trumps all in terms of race, making Jeter black in the eyes of the letter's author, though logically he is at most half black, and that is assuming his father is of 100% black decent (I don't know if he is or not, and frankly, I don't care).
Obviously, the author of the letter feels that dating outsides one's own race makes one a "race traitor". At least that gives him some common with the Grand Dragon of the local KKK chapter. Namely, that they are both racist dipshits.
If the author of the letter really wants to deal with race traitors, he should send letters to black men who are not taking responsibility for their own children. These are the men who are really hurting their own race. This behavior has resulting in a large "absentee father" problem, which results in more violence and more poverty. While he is at it, maybe he ought to write some letters criticizing the women who are stupid enough to sleep with these sorts of men.
Or maybe he should write letters to all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers who are destroying their "own people", be they white, black, mexican, asian, whatever. There are people out there destroying their own race, whatever that race may be, but it is not those dating outside of the color boundaries that are doing it.
2 comments:
Nice post S, I wish I would have seen it earlier. I'll try and link it.
02 10 06
Stuffle: Harsh but true! The reason why he is considered Black goes back in time to the "one drop rule". In the South, a person was Black if they had one drop of negro blood. That is why my Grandpa Soney Richard felt so strongly that he was African. People used to laugh at him and White men used to take him aside and give him this speech:"Well son, I know what you are doing and think it is swell...I once loved a colored gul, but my family said they would disown me if we got married, so I had to end it...", to which Grandpa replied: "Well I don't know what you talkin' bout' cuz I'm colored!" And so he was colored in his mind:)
The stuff with Mr. Jeter is stupid and shows how idiotic holding people to these alligiences is. A mixed race person in the USA is really just an American. They should be proud of both of their heritages and can culturally identify with each of their cultures, not just one. And he does look like a White guy with a tan:) Good article Stuffle. You always explore complex topics, yet your posts are to the point. I shall learn from you yet:)!!! Have a nice day:)
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