Intermarriage and becoming White

"By Jonah Goldberg
May 31, 2011; Los Angeles Times

"Princeton's Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says that President Obama is afraid of "free black men." Because of Obama's atypical upbringing, West says, "when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow [sic] and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a de-racination."

I like this debate from Cornel West who is actually talking some reality and defining what Black is which is by two parents and telling Whites that their offspring is also White even if they look Black. Cornel West is saying Obama does not have the Black history and treatment as such when he alludes to Jim Crow. He might be Black looking but he's not Black, especially when mama is White. This is vital because he's saying apart from his Wall Street politics of favoritism that he's ignoring the job crisis which is what Civil Rights was all about but he's also challenging the White imposition of identity on Blacks. When Whites procreate with Blacks, Whites view the offspring as Black but the truth is that they are White and that is ignored. Cornel is saying to be Black means you must come from both parents and Whites should accept their kin and mixed Whites should comprehend that they are not the same as Blacks especially when history is thrown in. Torii Hunter was correct when he said that Carribbean baseball players were not Black in the US definition.

This made me think about Mexican Americans and in particular the women who marry out and have the highest intermarriage rates in the US according to National Geographic and as one Mexican American woman stated named Marlette Cortez, she knows a good number of Mexican American women who want their White male trophy. With these high intermarriage rates to Whites and men of other cultures their offspring must be viewed in the context of their reproduction, that their offspring become those peoples for blood, culture, appearance, philosophy, history. They do stop being Mexican American if they ever were because if they were Mexico born then they never were even if raised in the US but Whites like to consider them Mexican Americans without considering those of us by both parents who are Mexican Americans. I personally don't consider them Mexican Americans but what the parent married into because ultimately that is what woman wanted, to leave the skin she carried.

And because this is a phenomenon of women marrying out because under the human rule women chose and make themselves available to men, the same social context cannot be extended to Mexican American males because they on the otherhand chose what comes to them. In other words, Mexican American males can't be picky because there aren't than many options so they are very limited in availibilty and sometimes that means that the psychological personalogical test is ignored when shouldn't because there is a fear that another will not pay attention and that is fear to live by. A recent study in young people revealed that sex for males reaffirms and enhances their confidence so every time a woman says yes which wasn't very often for me in my early 20's, the feeling of not being wanted is a reality and now as near 50's, as my friend Ron said, imagine being 65, there is less loving.

The part I hate the most is the institutional racism visible in many places when White institutions use Whites with a Mexican parent to claim that they are being inclusive. It is the most dishonest, racist insulting practice spit at those of us who didn't benefit from that racial inclusion. That Whiteness and white name means better opportunities, no bad credit and the opportunity to hear all the bigotry first hand which is what Whiteness means and the White girls because they aren't looking at us dark black hair people. I can tell you from someone who grew up in Lennox-one of the most dense Mexican nieghborhoods where everything was outside of the unincorporated strips from the movies, to high school, churches and even the morgues. The only places that existed where two of the most dirtiest supermarkets that would make you vomit as you entered them and the ugliest post office in America. Anybody who lived here felt hell was a better place at least the she devils would pay attention.

So those Whites with a Mexican parent wouldn't live this because their mother procreated to get out for all love is economical. Therefore when institutions hire Whites and try to pass them off as Mexicans that is really one of the most disrespectful and racist acts because it maintains Whites in power and covertly discriminates against us Mexican Americans. And they get away with it. So Cornel is right, they don't know what it's like to live as vermin.

And for those that argue it wasn't their fault, they didn't chose to be born that way, I would say neither did I but I pay for that appearance and you benefit from that look.