The story so far:
Ally sighed, another swing and another miss. Was she doing something wrong? She filled out all the questions, completed all the tests, and even wrote a semi-personal blog in the “About Me” section. Then, after hours of shifting through all the “seeking a W (White) C (Christian) female” entries, she managed to find one or two seemingly open minded males out there who don’t list themselves as “seeking a booty call with an exotic dark skinned woman.”
Where are all the good brothas? Ally laughed, like a good “brotha” would want her anyways. She allowed her mind to drift back into her childhood visits to her father’s hometown Black Baptist church. The adults petted her long “good” half breed hair, while the children laughed at her, calling her Oreo and coconut. They said she “talked like a white person” and acted “all proper.” They excluded her from their little games and stories, leaving her to play alone in the nursery.
Thankfully, those trips ended by third grade, when she and her brother converted to Catholicism. It was her brother’s idea.
“Listen,” he had said. “If we convert, they will quit leaving us out of activities at school, we get to taste the funny flat bread, AND we don’t have to where dress clothes to church anymore.”
Freedom from those nasty colored tights, plastic shoes, and matching purses? No more frilly, lacey dresses, and itchy underclothes?“Ally, in the Catholic church, people go to church in jeans!”
She was sold in a heartbeat; of course she also completely condemned herself to total exclusion from the black community at that point. Ally’s Catholic school was a predominantly Caucasian and she had very little communication with her relatives after that decision. So now here she sits the evidence of a mating between a bird and a fish. Where was she to live?
It is amazing the number of men in the year 2008 perfectly willing to ogle at a black woman’s form, desperately seeking “exotic” encounters with a robust black woman, and all completely unwilling to say “Hi Mom, Dad, this is my girlfriend.” When white men commit crimes, people say “Did you hear, two men broke in to the…” When black men commit crimes, people say “… two black men broke into the…” As if white were the norm and “black” were a special qualifier… Ok, ok , so we are a minority… Arrrgghhh! Why do I get off on these tangents!!! Oh yeah…Ø Chris123… seeking a good white Christian woman…. [MORE…]
Ø TomX seeking a strong Christian woman…. [MORE…]
Ø QuietKnight seeking a white woman…. [MORE…]
Arrrgghhh! Why can’t I just filter past these fools! Oh yeah… right I can go back to my list of five eager candidates. Hmmm… I better mark Paul as a “Bombed.”
