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Issa Rae: Educated Black Women Should Match Up with Asian guys … But Not Filipinos

Issa Rae
Before she became famous, Isa Rae was interviewed by the National Film Society,
AKA Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco.

 

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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 Girlbefore 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:

Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl

Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl2

Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl3

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.

 

 

OH HEY! While rooting around the Internet, I found this interview with Issa Rae in her Youtube days before she was “discovered” by HBO. She was being interviewed by Filipino American filmmakers Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco, co-founders of the National Film Society. I thought you might enjoy this:

 

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