Lena Horne to Nikki Giovanni Lena Horne “ I didn’t have the strength to be with a black man”.

[Jean Jacket]

At least she's honest and put the onus on herself.

She loves Black men enough to know she's not worthy of them.

This is what most of these women today are doing mental gymnastics around.

Good post.

 

[EndDomination]

I remember when this meme was going around a few yrs back

All em had a white husbands

Then further research that a good number of the Black Entertainment Industry from that era was in a interracial relationships/marriage..

Pearl Bailey
Diana Sands
Lorraine Hansberry
Nina Simone
Donyale Luna
Helen Williams
Naomi Sims
Hazel Scott
Eartha Kitt
Josephine Baker
Marpessa Dawn

I'm going to assume they shared the same reason as Lena

Check the men out too
IR back then with black celebrities was worse then it is now

 

[Counter Racist Male]

At least she's honest and put the onus on herself.

She loves Black men enough to know she's not worthy of them.

This is what most of these women today are doing mental gymnastics around.

Good post.

I don't think that is what she was saying.

She was saying a black mans life was too hard for her to tolerate. Therefore she couldn't see herself married to one.

 

[Stuntone]

Yall idiots didnt listen to her. She said married a black man when she was very young like 16 and didn't have the tools and wisdom to help him.

What 16 year old has that kind of wisdom?

 

[Jean Jacket]

I don't think that is what she was saying.

She was saying a black mans life was too hard for her to tolerate. Therefore she couldn't see herself married to one.

What I deciphered was that they had such complex struggles, she couldn't be an asset.

Society was patriarchal back then and women didn't have misplaced and inflated value like now.

I felt empathy in her tone. Unlike these hate filled bytches that call themselves swirlers.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Damn.

To think that white people was escape from a pain, that they themselves caused. Those black people (men and women) were too traumatized to do anything about it.

What she described was selfishness, weakness, and cowardice with herself. But that's still rooted in trauma.

 

[Vilify]

Somehow I don't think a black man would get this much sympathy if he said the same thing.

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

Somehow I don't think a black man would get this much sympathy if he said the same thing.

If Harry Balafonte came out and said this they would call him all types of c00ns, bedbucks, and being too weak for a black woman. These dudes are cucks. Aint no mjcry emojies or I feel his pain type of shyt. Because to judge a black man's character he has to be with a bw and anyone else then he is considered less of a man. A bw is not considered less of a woman if she is with a wm. She is never judged like a black man is.

 

[saturn7]

Even some of our best and brightest had to deal with identity issues and struggled with black love.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Did you watch the video? Or is that too much intellectual stimulation for you?

 

[3rdWorld]

Making it sound like black love must have pain to be endured, and think that white people are easier

It's the reason why Blacks in the UK only date cacs, they are too ashamed of themselves and by extension Black women. So they feel this pressure to date out to prove they're not some Black separatist militants..

 

[Sauce Dab]

Damn I hate what she said but I get it. She hated what she said too but she knew marrying a cac would probably make shyt easier for her and she had to do what she had to do

 

[Jean Jacket]

Somehow I don't think a black man would get this much sympathy if he said the same thing.

Expected.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Nope and you will see why soon enough.

"She's a bed wench blah blah"

People back then spoke their mind and even if others didn't agree they listened not faked outrage. People have forgotten how to listen to things they don't agree with and are more concerned with being upset rather than understanding

Bro they used to kill people hundreds of years ago for this exact same shyt.

Black people were butchered for not lock stepping under white only rule


What the fukk are you talking about

 

[Gravity]

Somehow I don't think a black man would get this much sympathy if he said the same thing.

You don’t even have to imagine the difference because we’ve already seen how it plays out for black men. A lot of black women still hate Wesley Snipes(who expressed similar feelings) to this day.