Greetings all!
I may be doing a friend a dis-service by quoting his entire conclusion to his book,
EXCUSES, EXCUSES: The Politics of Interracial Coupling in European Culture. It begins on page 119. This topic is more than important to me; so I post it for those who seriously seek more information and intend to use it. My choice was made long ago. Plus my own life span and from studying Ancient to today histories of our relationships with those who call themselves White. Yes its personal with me; but I do not separate myself from my people. This is information for each reader to deal with. I'll not debate what's written. - Baba Ahmed
Chapter 12. CONCLUSION
"Powerlessness breeds a race of beggars.(1) A successfully oppressed people desperately seek the love of their oppressors for self-validation. They are subconsciously, mentacidally driven to culturally assimilate in an effort to compel their oppressors to accept as a moral oblication the burden of stopping themselves from further mentally, physically and socially destroying their victims. Cultural and spiritual assimilation is irrelevant in that they have already put forth every possible effort to divest any resemblance of the traditions of their ancestors from themselves. When that does not work, when they come to realize that white supremacy cannot exist without racism, when it finally clicks that sharing is not on the European agenda, when they finally realize that 'its not what you say that they don't like, it's you they don't like,'(2) then the final stage of integration must be entered.
"When skin color and phenotypical differences are the visibly distinguishing features of oppressor and oppresssed, then amalgamation, or the permanent removeal of visible racial differences by sexually producing a less and less distinct racial population, becomes the primary goal of the survival oriented among the oppressed. It's that simple. One need only skim a short list of some well known Afrikans who were or are sleeping with Europeans. We would be remiss if we did not include
- Cheser Himes & Gregory Himes
"The point of presenting these excuses is not to initiate or engage a great debate. As previously stated, we need not waste our time with intentional, irrelevant distractions. This was written so that people, especially Afrikan males, can feel free to stop fooling only themselves with these fabrications, stories and lies. Humanism has nothing to do with it. Be men. Tell the truth. Stand firmly behind your contradiction. The only remaining question is, 'Why do these eseducated negroes and lost souls feel it so necessary to continue to manufacture erroeous, ungrounded explanations, unsupported even by the science of their masters, ad nauseam, to those who should care less why they are sleeping with the enemy?"
1. Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton,
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America,NY: Vintage Books, 1967,p.48.
2. James Baldwin