Alright. I wasn't planning on making another post about Will Smith's latest film 'Hancock.' However, some recent rantings have given me no choice but to make, yet another, post discussing this movie.
It seems if some Black women feel like the fact that Hancock's love interest in the film was a White woman was a front on their female Blackness. The women who fall into this category are in the small minority, but the idea that they are 'offended' by this shows their racial bias. After all, it's well known that the two biggest detractors of BM/WW relationships are White men, and Black women.
It's hypocritical however, when several of Halle Berry's latest films, her love interests where White men. Kerry Washington, a well-known Black actress, has a White husband in her latest film titled, "Lakeview Terrance." Will some of these bitter Black women complain about that film?
I doubt it.
It's a blatant double-standard where Black women can swoon over White men and be applauded as being "progressive and thinking outside the box." Yet, a Black man is unable to swoon over a White woman without fierce accusations of self-hatred and racial betrayal. If the interracial dating scene is ever going to be uncluttered then this biting double-standard must come to a close. Sooner rather than later.
If anything, the Black community should be concerned with is how AIDS is running rampant in some neighborhoods, young Black men murdering one another, and the education gap between Black students and White/Asian students. Jerome dating Becky should be the least of our concerns. We have other, more important, priorities.
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