{"id":3481,"date":"2007-06-25T20:39:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/25\/its-about-interracial-sex-folks\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:59:17","slug":"its-about-interracial-sex-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3481","title":{"rendered":"It's About Interracial Sex Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok,\u00a0I’d be remiss\u00a0if I didn’t say something about the latest crime to become a media circus.\u00a0 I’m sure by now most of you have heard about the\u00a0murder of Jessie Davis<\/a>, who was almost\u00a09 months pregnant and was likely killed in front of her two year old child by the child’s father.\u00a0 Since Davis and Cutts were a\u00a0black\/white couple and I am someone\u00a0who\u00a0studies black\/white interracial relationships and who is in a black\/white interracial relationship, I know many people are wondering what I think about this case.\u00a0 I’m not here to offer any opinions on the particulars of the case ((I also want to say that my heart goes out to the\u00a0family of Jessie Davis and her child.\u00a0 I hope they are able to get justice in this case.)) , but I do want to talk about the media coverage of the case.<\/p>\n

I went around to a few blogs, and I visited AOL Blackvoices and a couple white supremacist message boards to see what they were saying, and quite frankly it was horrible.\u00a0 Many people were saying that the victim deserved it; that she was “white trash;” that her child was ugly; and that she was a sleazy, homewrecking whore.\u00a0\u00a0Not surprisingly,\u00a0the accused murderer, who is the poster boy for anti-black stereotypes, was also being trashed as\u00a0a violent womanizer who\u00a0lusted\u00a0after white women.\u00a0 I can’t tell you how many racist and misogynistic comments I read;\u00a0and not surprisingly the white supremacists were giddy over this case. ((I have a policy of not linking to organized white supremacist sites, but you can check out the big ones to see what they are saying.))\u00a0<\/p>\n

Terrence Says<\/a> has a reasonable post, which anonymous bigots tried to take over in the comment thread, and in his post, Terrence engages with the question that many folks are thinking–is the media circus surrounding this case about race? Terrence cites a recent case of a white man who killed his white\u00a0wife and three children:<\/p>\n

Today, like Bobby Cutts, Jr. who was arrested in Ohio, Christopher Vaughn was also arrested. Christopher Vaughn was arrested two hours prior to the funeral of his family in St. Charles County, Missouri<\/font><\/a> (suburban St. Louis) where the family originated; yet, so far, there has not been a mention of Vaughn’s arrest that I have been able to observe on the weekend news shows.<\/p>\n

As sad and tragic as the Jessie Davis story is, I can’t help but wonder if this story had involved a missing pregnant black or Latina woman if it would have the same media traction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well several of the anonymous commenters went crazy, saying that the case received so much attention because Davis was pregnant, because Cutts was a cop, because the child was left in the house alone, and everything but race.\u00a0 I certainly agree that all of those things make the story more sensational, but I really can’t fathom that it is much more sensational than the Vaugh family case mentioned above.\u00a0 However, I find myself having a slight disagreement with Terrence.\u00a0 I agree that white women victims get much more attention than Black, Asian, Latino, and American Indian women, and I agree that race is a big factor in the media attention the case has gotten, but I would be more specific than Terrence.<\/p>\n

It’s about interracial sex.\u00a0 Interracial crimes make big sensational news stories, but crimes that involve interracial sexuality arouse the deepest passions of American bigotry.\u00a0 The OJ Simpson case, the Duke Rape, the Kobe Bryant rape case, and now this one–they all have tremendous sexual overtones.\u00a0 For a long time, I was surprised at how much attention the Duke case received, because I was focused on the fact that the accuser in the case was black, but I missed the mark.\u00a0 It’s more than the races of the people involved; if the crime is perceived as involving interracial sex, something snaps in people, suddenly they perk up.<\/p>\n

The truth of the matter is that the US is a culture obsessed with interracial sex, but nobody will say this in polite company.\u00a0 During the slave era and the Jim Crow era, white people spoke with repulsion and disgust at interracial sex even though many white men were routinely engaging in sexual encounters with black women.\u00a0In the colorblind era, people are still obsessed with interracial sex.\u00a0 However, they do not publicly<\/strong> say, “Wow, interracial sex is: bizarre, disgusting, exciting, adventurous, morally repugnant,” and so on.\u00a0 That’s part of the reason nobody in the mainstream polite media is going to openly\u00a0say–“Damn that negro had two white baby mama’s.\u00a0 He must have really been packing some heat below the belt.\u00a0 Why else would those white women be interested in him?”\u00a0 ((I don’t know if his wife is white or not, so I can’t comment on the third “baby mama.”))\u00a0 Nobody is going to say, “Those white women are white trash, whores for sleeping with this black guy.\u00a0\u00a0They probably only did it for his big dick.”\u00a0 Nobody is going to say, “Why can’t these black men just take care of their kids and stopping hopping from bed to bed.\u00a0 Only a white women with no self esteem will get with a guy like that.”\u00a0 They are not saying these dispargaing comments\u00a0publicly, but when they get home to their families and friends, they are saying it.\u00a0 When they go on line to search for interracial porn, they are thinking it.\u00a0 When they can leave anonymous comments on blogs, they are expressing it.<\/p>\n

I think my traffic at this site is evidence for the American obsession with\u00a0race and\u00a0sex.\u00a0 Within the last week here are a select few searches I have received:<\/p>\n