Here’s the thing—
I’m not implying that our forefathers just stood by and “didn’t care” or “let it happen”. Obviously they all would’ve been murdered and we wouldn’t be here. Full stop.
I go hard when the topic of slavery comes up because, very conveniently, a lot of men want to reference what Black women “did with the slave masters” as if it was possibly consensual. And they want to attribute current day Black women’s potentially negative or damaging behavior, attitudes, desires, etc to “interactions” with white men slavery— I.e. being forced into situations against their will by the most powerful people (white men).
Saying Black women might be divestors and have attitudes with Black men because they are used to being used by cacs and have Stockholm syndrome, so that makes them (divestors) want to deal with white men is a WILD TAKE.
To your point- does anyone say there are Japanese-American women who are into white guys because of Stockholm syndrome dating back to when the Japanese were forced into American internment camps during WWII? Nah. No one would think that of Japanese American women, no one would think that of Jewish women, no one would think that of Native women…
so why think that is a possibility for BLACK AMERICAN women? How is that even a thought?
Referencing women who were beaten, raped by their literal OWNERS, forced to breed non-stop, have their children stripped away, forced to breastfeed and rear the next generation of their owners, marry and then have their husbands and children sold to other plantations to never be seen again, never have a day of peace until their literal death…
Fast forward- then the descendants of those enslaved women had to serve these ppl in their homes after slavery was over— where the same dynamics were at play: you were spoken to like an animal while serving white women, still rearing their children, possibly being groped or raped by the white man who was the one paying you, his wife knowing/suspecting it and treating you even worse because of it (akin to the type of shyt happening right now to many of the African women who traveled to the Middle East for domestic work— stuck in slavery getting raped by the husbands and beaten by the wives)………
There are men who say Black women enjoyed dealing with “massa”. There are men who reference those times as “what happened with the white man”, etc, as if Black women in those times possibly had any other choice. There are men who don’t detail what that lived experience was like for enslaved women.
Like I said— people desire whites because they are the “dominant” culture and they literally subjugated the globe and made themselves the image of all that is right. That’s why Asian chicks go crazy for white dudes here, but Asian women in their home countries…it ain’t as drastic. Because they aren’t surrounded by the messaging of White Supremacy.
Those simple ass broads on social media talking about that little boy/liking the tweet- those women are trash.
But we don’t have to bring up slavery and say that Black women are accustomed to being abused by white men so that’s why divestors exist and talk about Black men.
That is beyond extreme.
Are we able to call out negative behavior of some current day Black men and say “Oh, they’re like that because of slavery”?
Black men who like PAWGs (
) and disparage Black women, that’s because of slavery. Y’all know plantation owners’ wives had male slaves they were attracted to and the same way female slaves couldn’t turn down their owners, male slaves couldn’t turn down the white women either.
Would that NOT sound crazy to you? To blame it on that? To even reference that?
That was my point.
It has nothing to do with slavery. Some ppl are lame and they display it on social media. Black folks have a lot of pain that we need to sort through, but sometimes, sometimes the issue is a socialization problem. We can call them out without bringing up women who were living in time when it was survival or death.