Lareyna

Repeat after me, kids:

YOU CAN DATE OUTSIDE YOUR RACE AND STILL BE RACIST.

YOU CAN DATE SOMEONE OF A PARTICULAR RACE AND STILL BE RACIST TOWARDS THAT RACE.

INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS DO NOT END RACISM.

Familiar with the trend, but I hadn't realized it'd been named. But that's helpful so thanks for sharing. It can definitely apply to Black and brown men too.

The thing that bugs me is that shows will cast Black or brown people (usually in guest spots) to be like "look we know that BIPOC exist, we're being inclusive," but it ends up being really problematic. I was a toddler when Friends was airing but I'm gonna guess Julie, the girlfriend Ross brought back from China in season two, was not a well-received character in 1995. When shows bring on poc to be a layover love interest they're putting the characters and the actors in a really unfair position to be hated by fans because they're interfering with desired pairings. And it reduces them to plot devices to help the end-game pairing realize their true feelings. It's fine for relationships not to work out, most people fall in love more than once but in the end the disposable Black boyfriend or girlfriend trope sends the message that Black and brown people are fine for a fling, hot enough for sex, but not worthy of real love.

With regard to Black women whether or not most writers get it for decades Black women have been stuck being portrayed as hyper-sexualized Jezebels or Mammy figures so consumed with taking care of white folks that they've forgotten what sex is. Stories where Black women are loved are huge and still rare. We're not really getting that by being just a speed-bump in someone else's love story.

Again, The Office did it, Sex and the City did it, Friends did it, You did it twice, Once Upon a Time did it twice. Zoom in on OUAT, the writers said we're gonna make Marian who is Robin Hood's cannonical true love and has been for decades a woman of color. But we will not explore who she is as a person or her feelings, she'll just be an obstacle to Regina's happy ending and her death was reduced to a joke. Classy.

And here's a reason for hope: the fundraiser is blasting away. They just made $50,000 in the past 3 days - let's keep it going!

"Wait, hold on, I don't know what's going on here"

What's the UNRWA?

"The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, employs thousands of staffers and provides vital aid and services to millions of people across the Middle East. In Gaza, it has been the main supplier of food, water and shelter to civilians during the Israel-Hamas war."

-via PBS, January 29, 2024

If their funding is from the UN and various countries, what's up with this fundraiser?

A massive amount of UNRWA's budget was just cut in the middle of a humanitarian crisis, as the US and a number of other countries cut off aid to UNRWA completely.

Betty Jean Baucom 1970-1994

Brandi June Henderson 1975-1994

The murder of the eighth victim(Betty Jean Baucom) was one of the saddest. The saddest one of all involves the ninth victim, Brandi June Henderson and her infant son Tyrece Woods. Both lived in the Lake Apartments in East Charlotte. Betty Jean Baucom forgave him after all he had done to his victims. Up to that point, she didn't thought he was a murderer. Instead, she thought he was a gentleman who wouldn't harmed anyone, not even a fly. Instead, that devil sadistically murdered her, then stole property from her afterwards. She must have a patience and heart of a saint. Reminds me too much of Maria Goretti.

That devil also murdered Brandi June Henderson, then tried to murder the baby. Miraculously, her son, Tyrece Woods survived the horrific day. The next day after the bodies of Betty Jean Baucom and Brandi June Henderson were found at the Lake Apartments, that devil had the nerve to pretend consoling George Burrell regarding Brandi's horrific murder. He really didn't feel sorry for what he had done to the two women at the Lake Apartments. Nor did he feel sorry for the eight other murders preceding those two. The women were killed on the same day. Betty, on Wednesday morning before dawn. Brandi, on the same night between 8 PM and 11 PM. Ms. Betty Jean Baucom's body was found on Thursday morning. This is when the police were getting serious and to warn women of a serial killer going around preying Black women.

I will always remember the young women Whose lives were destroyed before they were even began on their journeys. They were enjoying the time of their short lives.

Interracial relationships also date back WAY back before American even existed  Africa wasn’t just some sit on the mill animalistic place that white supremacy likes to paint it like here in America. Africa had kingdoms in several different countries and for at least 700 years the Moors ruled.

Greeks didn’t magically become the best archietects out of no where they got their info from Kemet (Egypt), Uganda, Ethiopia, etc. All these places had different names but several prominent African countries had kingdoms with working toliets, banks, artists, and anything else that is attributed to the Greek/Roman lifestyle.

In short so no

interracial relationships won’t solve racism

i’m responding to this cause this shit was all in the Black woman tag.

fyi for i get some shit I have nothing against interracial relationships as I have been in some myself. Before people want to come and shit on me.

Notice you don’t ever see two POC together as some sort of anti-racism ad.

You don’t hear the stories where the white person in the couple ditches the POC when they decide they want to “get a serious relationship”.

You don’t see the part where the relationship goes fine until the parents of the white couple pour out enough racism, and the white partner either decides to give up on the relationship (finding other “reasons” of course), OR, refuses to check their parents and just asks the POC to endure the unbearable.

You don’t see the part where the couple raises a kid and the white parent is ill-equipped to teach the child about what they need to do for survival against the bullies, the teachers, the strangers, the police.

You especially don’t see any part where this fucking magical kiss changes police violence, health care disparities, differences in pay rates, differences in hiring rates, differences in promotions, microaggressions, bank loans, murder rates, or incarceration.

But hey, a white person is kissing you, don’t you understand that the Heavens have parted, the Divine has come to Earth, the Good Word has poured forth and why would you worry about living safely, in health or wanting to be paid for work - shouldn’t you be grateful that THE WHITENESS HAS DEEMED YOU WORTHY?

The Kumbayah Myth is built on white supremacy.

interracial dating brings about the worst racism and dismissal. 

Wool farming, if done with an eye on animal welfare*, does absolutely nothing to harm a sheep or alpaca. It’s no different than a haircut. And just like a haircut, it’ll grow right back. If your argument is that sheep may be cut in this process—very occasionally a sheep may be nicked. To be clear, I say NICKED, not cut. Think about shaving your legs or face and hitting a bump, and ow, you bleed a couple drops. That is what may, rarely, happen. But RARELY, because farmers are going to take damn good care of the animals who keep them in funds. Should it happen, it’s as much an accident as you finding that bump while shaving.

Likewise y’all should be promoting ethical beekeeping and honey farming. Bees are unique among livestock in that if they don’t like their keeper, if they think the hive is shitty, they can, and will, just…leave. You can’t put a collar or ear tag on a bee. Bee populations are declining and they’re incredibly important in our biodiversity (as pollinators, yes, but also in other ways). And bees do, indeed, make too much honey for themselves. That’s why they swarm. A nest gets too full of comb, or they outgrow it, and they just dip. Swarming is dangerous because it leaves the bees vulnerable—the queen is mostly unprotected, they have only as much food as they could carry with them so if it’s late in the season they’re dead meat, humans spot swarms and freak out and send exterminators because they don’t realize swarms aren’t dangerous as long as you’re calm….it is, BY FAR, better to have bees in a hive that never overfills, where they can be checked for parasites and diseases that would destroy the colony or even an entire apiary and can receive honey substitute rather than starving to death if winter should be particularly harsh or long, and where an excess of their natural product and instincts can be siphoned off for the benefit of humans with no detriment to the bees.

Honey is less harmful to us and to the planet we live on than agave syrup, stevia, or cane sugar. It does not rely on any kind of slave labor (again: if the bees weren’t happy, they’d leave). It does not upset entire economies. And by its nature there are more independent keepers than there are giant conglomerates, which is better all the way around! (Although the conglomerates are trying to change that, so like. Support your local beekeepers.) Plus, old no-longer-needed honeycomb is made of beeswax, which can be used in all manner of things in lieu of more harmful chemicals like phthalates. There is no downside here!

“Never do anything involving an animal ever” should not be the goal. That completely ignores that we are animals that grew up in a complete ecosystem. “Do the least amount of harm and be good stewards, because this planet doesn’t belong to only us” should be the goal.

Wool and honey. We can argue another time about eggs. For right now let’s agree that sheep, goats, alpacas, and bees make far more of these products than they will ever need, that in some cases an excess can even be detrimental to them, and that it is a GOOD THING to find a way to live in balance rather than poisoning our world with “vegan leather.”

Interracial relationships also date back WAY back before American even existed  Africa wasn’t just some sit on the mill animalistic place that white supremacy likes to paint it like here in America. Africa had kingdoms in several different countries and for at least 700 years the Moors ruled.

Greeks didn’t magically become the best archietects out of no where they got their info from Kemet (Egypt), Uganda, Ethiopia, etc. All these places had different names but several prominent African countries had kingdoms with working toliets, banks, artists, and anything else that is attributed to the Greek/Roman lifestyle.

In short so no

interracial relationships won’t solve racism

i’m responding to this cause this shit was all in the Black woman tag.

fyi for i get some shit I have nothing against interracial relationships as I have been in some myself. Before people want to come and shit on me.

Notice you don’t ever see two POC together as some sort of anti-racism ad.

You don’t hear the stories where the white person in the couple ditches the POC when they decide they want to “get a serious relationship”.

You don’t see the part where the relationship goes fine until the parents of the white couple pour out enough racism, and the white partner either decides to give up on the relationship (finding other “reasons” of course), OR, refuses to check their parents and just asks the POC to endure the unbearable.

You don’t see the part where the couple raises a kid and the white parent is ill-equipped to teach the child about what they need to do for survival against the bullies, the teachers, the strangers, the police.

You especially don’t see any part where this fucking magical kiss changes police violence, health care disparities, differences in pay rates, differences in hiring rates, differences in promotions, microaggressions, bank loans, murder rates, or incarceration.

But hey, a white person is kissing you, don’t you understand that the Heavens have parted, the Divine has come to Earth, the Good Word has poured forth and why would you worry about living safely, in health or wanting to be paid for work - shouldn’t you be grateful that THE WHITENESS HAS DEEMED YOU WORTHY?

The Kumbayah Myth is built on white supremacy.

“The more I see of these bullshit ass “kumbayah we’re all in love” kind of pictures, the more I realize that the underlying message they’re TRYING to convey is, “The true picture of love, is loving white people”.”

Members of fmaily walked out rather than be associated with us.

And that whole slavery thing.

Having mixed babies does not get rid of institutional racism and its effects. White Supremacist Racism is still in play. Power and privilege is afforded to anyone able to pass as White. Know this. Know this. KNOW THIS.

Ugh!

And I hate hearing, “Oh, you’re mixed?  Well, EVERYBODY must love you then!”  LMFAO.

Also, real interracial unions have to involve straight-forward confrontation with racism, white privilege, and white supremacy.  They just have to, especially if there are kids involved, if there’s any chance of the family being healthy while living in this society. And then some interracial unions are between a PoC and a racist asshole. 

Betty Jean Baucom 1970-1994

Brandi June Henderson 1975-1994

The murder of the eighth victim(Betty Jean Baucom) was one of the saddest. The saddest one of all involves the ninth victim, Brandi June Henderson and her infant son Tyrece Woods. Both lived in the Lake Apartments in East Charlotte. Betty Jean Baucom forgave him after all he had done to his victims. Up to that point, she didn't thought he was a murderer. Instead, she thought he was a gentleman who wouldn't harmed anyone, not even a fly. Instead, that devil sadistically murdered her, then stole property from her afterwards. She must have a patience and heart of a saint. Reminds me too much of Maria Goretti.

That devil also murdered Brandi June Henderson, then tried to murder the baby. Miraculously, her son, Tyrece Woods survived the horrific day. The next day after the bodies of Betty Jean Baucom and Brandi June Henderson were found at the Lake Apartments, that devil had the nerve to pretend consoling George Burrell regarding Brandi's horrific murder. He really didn't feel sorry for what he had done to the two women at the Lake Apartments. Nor did he feel sorry for the eight other murders preceding those two. The women were killed on the same day. Betty, on Wednesday morning before dawn. Brandi, on the same night between 8 PM and 11 PM. Ms. Betty Jean Baucom's body was found on Thursday morning. This is when the police were getting serious and to warn women of a serial killer going around preying Black women.

I will always remember the young women Whose lives were destroyed before they were even began on their journeys. They were enjoying the time of their short lives.

The iconography of Mary and Magdalene, stereotypically depicted as the “madonna/magdalene by Italian Renaissance artists, Fra Filippo Lippi and Carlo Crivelli.  Most men and women have dualistic view toward women, then and now.  Today, we use the terms good women and bad women. Or, to be precise,  good mother/girl next door and loose woman/party girl

In the 1990s media depiction of serial murder victims, the media used photos of serial murder victims.  The media used such photos either to elicit sympathy and compassion or that of sensation, shock, and scornful judgment.  The Madonna/whore complex is used in such depictions of women, victim or not.

Miss Betty Jean Baucom, beautiful young lady victim of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace.  Her graduation photo is used to evoke sympathy and compassion.  She’s depicted in blue, the traditional color of the Madonna.

Miss Jenny Soto, very beautiful Black Latina victim of serial killer Joel Rifkin.  Mainstream media relentlessly used her picture to disparage her reputation.  Margarita Gonzalez, Jenny Soto’s mother, was angry with the media’s depiction of her daughter and complained about the sensational headline in the media after Joel’s confession in June 1993.