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Actress Issa Rae’s proposal that educated black women should start dating Asian men is creating quite a stir in social media. Judging from the responses, maybe it is not so funny after all.
Talk about a delayed response!
It took three years since the publication of Issa Rae’s memoir, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, before people started to respond to it.
“This is why I propose that black women and Asian men join forces in love, marriage and procreation,” Rae wrote. “Educated black women what better intellectual match for you than an Asian man? And I’m not talking about Filipino’s, they’re like the Blacks of Asians. I’m talking Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, et cetera.”
“So black women, after college, maybe it’s a good idea to settle in Los Angeles or anywhere else where Koreatown is a hotspot,” added the star and producer of HBO’s hit, Insecure.
Here the approximately two pages that’s created such a controversy:
It’s not like her comments weren’t discussed before. In an interview with Larry Whitmore shortly after her book was published, she was questioned about her controversial comments.
“I say that black women and Asian men are at the bottom of the dating totem pole,” the Stanford grad told Wilmore at the time. “It’s true—ask around. Go to Match.com, go to anywhere, and you’ll see the ‘least chosen’ is Raquonda and Lee.”
Apparently, Rae’s comments hit a sore spot. Not too surprisingly, those who are just discovering Rae’s satirical (or, maybe not) comments, took umbrage or came to her defense.
What stands out to me is (1) how much more straight forward Issa Rae can be about Asian women (saying they are “ditching” Asian men for white) than Asian women themselves, and (2) how there is a similar, unspoken diss of black men here as less intellectual than Asian men. pic.twitter.com/9MBSGw9mhg
— Five Alive (@Mont_Jiang) April 29, 2018
Y’all are taking this out of context . We LOVE black men , y’all just don’t love us . This is what Issa Rae was getting to .
— IDontReplyToDMs (@DamnSheBADD__) April 30, 2018
An influential black woman (Issa rae) is telling black women to procreate with Asian men because they will intellectually suit black women in her book…. Christ what have we done as black men to be shitted on like this?
— DreTookHer?? (@RealBeardedDre) April 29, 2018
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