AfroerotiK
Erotic provocateur, racially-influenced humanist, relentless champion for the oppressed, and facilitator for social change, Scottie Lowe is the brain child, creative genius and the blood, sweat, and tears behind AfroerotiK. Intended to be part academic, part educational, and part sensual, she, yes SHE gave birth to the website to provide people of African descent a place to escape the narrow-mined, stereotypical, limiting and oft-times degrading beliefs that abound about our sexuality. No, not all Black men are driven by lust by white flesh or to create babies and walk away. No, not all Black women are promiscuous welfare queens. And as hard as it may be to believe, no, not all gay Black men are feminine, down low, or HIV positive. Scottie is putting everything on the table to discuss, debate, and dismantle stereotypes in a healthy exchange of ideas. She hopes to provide a more holistic, informed, and enlightened discussion of Black sexuality and dreams of helping couples be more open, honest, and adventurous in their relationships.
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Mixed women are better than whom? Does this mean that mixed women are better then White women? Black women? Everyone?
Do people think that Obama is President because he is mixed?
Can you please give the context of the statement "Mixed chicks are Better".
The link that is no longer valid was discussing the preference for Black society in general, and specifically Black men, who espouse the sentiment that biracial women are better than Black women. If I remember correctly, there was a young lady who was biracial who said that her parentage DID in fact make her better than both Blacks and whites. I'll see if I can find some of my commentary on it. I know I saved it.
There is a young lady who is multiracial who made the claim that being multiracial makes you better. That’s right, if you have parents of different races, you are inherently better than those born to parents of the same race. I find that to be an odd, repugnant assertion. I asked her how being multiracial makes one better and her response was to say that being multiracial gets you more jobs, loans, and makes you more spiritually enlightened. She sincerely believes that being multiracial makes her a better person than just plain ole nappy-headed Black people, like myself. According to her, I'm destined for a life of eternal spiritual damnation because I'm incapable of seeing myself as part of a larger spiritual community because I'm not multiracial, or at least I don't feel a need to brag about the miscegenation in my family tree. Yeah, yeah, yeah, African Americans are a mix of African, Native, and Caucasian bloodlines in quantities and percentages we will never know – I know, I know, I know. But to assert that being biracial makes a person better is delusional, racist, and grossly bigoted.
Here’s a news flash, I’m not disabled in any way just because I happened to be born the "incorrect" mix of ethnicities. The people who are disabled are those that think that her “good” hair makes her better. The people who are disabled are those racists who would give her a loan because she is mixed over someone who is Black because of their false beliefs that she is somehow better because she’s not “all Black.” The people who are disabled are not the people who don’t have parents of different ethnicities, the people who are disabled are the ones who mistakenly think that mixing races erases the history of oppression, rape, enslavement, and genocide perpetuated by Caucasians for thousands of years. Her racial perspectives are taken straight from the plantation, relegating her Black sisters and brothers to poverty, underemployment, inarticulation, and spiritual retardation by stating that to be multiracial is to be better.
To assert that the world would be a better place if we could eliminate the races is to suggest that there are advantages, however unfairly distributed to people who just happen to have parents of different ethnicities. Yes, this multiracial sista can get loans, jobs, and compliments about her beautiful long hair more readily than I but that doesn't make her better nor has she earned any advantages over my humanity as a Black woman by her accidental birth to different parents. I'm not hating on biracial people, I'm hating on the system of racism that puts their beauty and skin color on a pedestal while denying the beauty of my Blackness. I’m hating on the system that has led them to believe that only they have the authority to speak about different ethnicities while deeming me incapable and inarticulate, as if my DNA makes me incapable of having compassion for others. I would imagine that if she were to have acknowledged that she did in fact have unfairly garnered privilege because of her multi-ethnicities, rather than try to arrogantly boast that it made her "better" then I would have no choice but to acknowledge she did have a better connection to all people, even those whose parents have the same ethnic background. Sadly, I can’t. Nothing makes a person better by being multiracial; it’s not an elevation in status by any stretch of the imagination.
Copyright 2007 Scottie Lowe
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