A question popped into my mind after I googled the definition for jungle fever . Why is jungle fever a reference about white women's attraction to black men? Why couldn't it have said "an attraction between people from opposite races" or something along those lines?
I find the connotations of the former definition rather racist. Within this definition a black man is synonymous with a jungle, which happens to be a home for wild animals. Is this to say that white women who find themselves attracted to black men are attracted to wild animals?
It was also interesting and infuriating to read that a one of the world's most respected scientists claims that black people are less intelligent than their white counterparts but that's a story for another day.
But really now, am I naive to believe that there is nothing wrong with interracial relationships? Why do people choose to get so caught up in race issues, when race itself is a social construct? It amazes me the speed at which people are so ready to turn up their noses to the mere mention of interracial relationships when we have fought long and hard to get to where we are as a people.
My best friend told me that I should basically quite whilst I'm ahead because white men only date black women in order to be well looked after. She said that white men date black women because black women cook, clean, take care of the kids and know how to take care of their men. She also mentioned that white men love the way black women are so primal - which takes us right back to the jungle fever definition. Suffice it to say she based her skewed observation on one experience gone wrong.
I'm sure to many I come across as one with a neo-colonised mind but quite the contrary. I am just an ambassador for the Kingdom of God where the distinction between black and white does not exist .
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My best friend told me that I should basically quite whilst I'm ahead because white men only date black women in order to be well looked after. She said that white men date black women because black women cook, clean, take care of the kids and know how to take care of their men.
Okay...this made me grin. I'm trying to picture the look on my brother's face if he read this.
He's white. His wife is black. Now I adore my sister-in-law, she's a great lady, a great mom...but I'm trying to picture her 'looking after' my brother.
They married each other because they love each other. That's as it should be.
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