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Jackie
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Username: Jackie
Post Number: 23
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 01:51 am: | 
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I'm reviewing Frederick Smith's novella "Down For Whatever" to be released in July 2005 with Kensington Books. It's about four gay men who are friends and what happens among their relationships. I'm about 3/4 through the book and when I read this passage I just thought of Kola's "Nigger Nirvana Dream" What ya think ?
Two of the main characters are black and one of them is Keith. Keith's dating situation is not going well, so he's thinking aloud:
"Problem number 3: no matter what people say, race matters in L.A. In the ethnic hierarchy of gay L.A, black and African American most often finishes last. That's unless you're one of the following 1) light enough to pass for being mixed with something other than black, even if you're just pretending to be biracial, which raises the value of your romantic stock dramatically, since being one hundred percent black is a liability and being mixed de-emphasizes blackness;2) thuggish enough to pass for a gangbanger or a rapper to being able to fulfill someone's colored boy/bling bling fetish and stereotypes of black men; 3) muscular enough to pass for a professional athlete, hopefully a basketball player, because everyone wants the long legs and torso pressed against their bodies;4) mainstreamed or assimilated enough to blend in with the majority of white crowds of West Hollywood, laugh, smile and buffoon yourself and your people for their entertainment, and spout off well-rehearsed lines such as "People are people and I don't see color" when they really do, or "I grew up around white people and I don't feel comfortable in all black settings" when they really grew up in South Central, South Bronx or South-side Chicago and know the only white people they grew up with were an occasional teacher, a mailman, or their mother's supervisor who gave them hand me down clothes for the next school year. I'm not about the join the Afro-Saxon clique to get a man.
And if you're African American or black-well let's just summarize it with my experience in L.A: too dark to be the tragic yet mulatto boy, and not dark (or homeboy")enough to be the black mandingo fantasy. Face it, I'm in the minority in this town. Except for the pockets of talented tenth in Baldwin Hills, Leimert Park, Ladera Heights, or even Altadena, there are not many black men to be found in L.A. I mean when has anyone seen more than five black men together in one setting in L.A? Especially black guys who like other black guys, whether it's in friendship or more-than-friendship context. This makes for a lonely and sad dating life for me. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1204
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 02:04 am: |
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LOL!
Girl, you are too much.
And too RIGHT.
Notice how this reads as though a Black Woman could have written it about her situation trying to find acceptance from black men.
ANNNNDDDD....my good friend Alicia Banks, who happens to be lesbian.....is ALWAYS lamenting the fact that it's SOOOO HARRRD in Little Rock to find a Black Lesbian Partner. All the Black Lesbians want WHITE GIRLS....and Alicia takes it further by noting how ALL the "lesbian novels" and "lesbian magazines" will only show black women if they're paired up with White Women.
I find it very true. The media is HELL BENT on Over-Representing images of "interracial" comportment...and the Perfect Mulatto now comes in at #2 behind that image. It's very sad.
Michael Jackson, by accident, tripped the light fantastic and made his dark skinned ass into a Mulatto!! LOL
3 Dates lined up for Kola in D.C.--ALL black Kings!:
LAMBD---Buff, fine ass black man and board member, BUT a player.
Chris Stevenson, Buffalo Times---Tall, buff fine ass black macho-sexist pig journalist who wants me to be his wife! (I'm totally serious)....luckily, Chris can only fly in long enough to be at my reading and have a drink in the mall.
"Dr. Blynd" (My brother, so doesn't count)--but I love him SOOOOOO much. He will be the most fun.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3113
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 08:37 am: |
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Ladies,
Isn't it amazing how Black/White foks no matter their gender or sexuality are hellbent on fetishing and caricaturizing each other?
Kola,
Enjoy DC! And make sure you wash up after having 'Lambd chops'. Cause they can at times be a little...gamey.
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Cynnique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 11:40 am: |
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Be sure and tell Lambd that Cynique sends "smooches." |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1206
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 01:36 pm: |
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Hi Cynique.
In 10 minutes I'm going to call Lambd at work. I promise to tell him.
He's mad at me because I said ABSOLUTELY "no sex, no fondling, no drinking other than wine, minor kiss". He's so hilarious.
He's pretending to be "SERIOUS" about me. LMAO!!!
He's coming to the hotel while I get dressed, taking me to my signing and then we're having dinner at my hotel! It's such a gorgeous hotel, too---I wish I could stay here a WEEK. LOL
I will try to coax Lambd into taking some photos and letting me put them on the net---but you KNOW he may not go for it.
ABM,
I only wish I could see you as well.
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Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1207
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 02:17 pm: |
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Cynique,
LAMBD says he loves you.
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BTW--
he gave me permission to talk our date on the internet, otherwise I wouldn't.
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