ANTI-RACISM SURVIVES ON URBAN MYTHS | 2007-01-12
Mixed-blood children are likely to be ugly. At the University of Virginia in the early 1960s I agreed to discuss interracial marriage on one condition. The person stalking to me would, at my expense, drink Coca-Cola, the world's most popular soft drink, and the best been available.
MIXED.
I was known for keeping after people, so I would pay for the drinks and ask him, on a regular basis, whether that mix tasted good. If not, was he insulting the Coke or the beer?
No black man who marries a blond would date a girl who looked like the daughter they produce. In the real world, they try to find black men who are willing to date non-white girls. The reason the black man wants to pollute white blood is because he LIKES it.
As for the white girl, I have no more idea why she would want a black guy than I have about what homosexuals look for in a man.
But there are several points to make here. First, please don't hit me with the "THEY drink Coke mixed with beer" crap. "Shandies" are a myth. I have been given at least a dozen places where cola and beer mixes were "quite common." Unfortunately, I've BEEN to most of them, and nobody ever heard of such a thing.
"Shandies" were the Coca-Cola and beer mix British soldiers were supposed to be so fondof during World War II. I have talked to many, many, MANY Brits who were inthe service inthat period, and not one of them every even heard of an actual British soldier who ever drank such a revolting mix.
This reminds me of the media statement made for a couple of years that for every one time a householder held off an intruder with a gun, the brave and brilliant criminal took the gun away and show the terrified wimp FORTY-THREE TIMES! Like twentieth century history, when you just SAY these things out loud, you simply cannot believe anybody ever took it seriously. But this 43-1 bit was DOCTRINE for YEARS.
Then career police officers, not being WWII Generation types, FINALLY began to write letters to newspapers saying htey had never even HEARD of a case of a brave criminal grabbing the gun. Not ONE. As always, the press reaction to this exposure of oneof its urban myths was to forget anybody ever SAID such a thing.
The same is true of the "shandy." The Coca-Cola Company probably encourages this myth to show how popular Coke is in every form. Today Coke like every other major corporation encourages the myth that mixed-bloods are more beautiful than blonds, for a different reason.
But let us return to Mantra Logic: If there is a reason to say something other than because it is true, then is almost certainly NOT true.
It's like that "Everybody knows that the XX's are the most beautiful people on earth." But none of those x's show up on a Hollywood screen. The world's most popular and sudden TV series was Baywatch, and none of those girls looked mulatto when it hit the big time.
Every time I state something I get hit with some version of the same old urban myths.