This Colbert I. King is a hypocrite. He denounces “white” males for supposedly exploiting “black” women but wants the products of this alleged exploitation to enrich his “race.” He denounces “whites” who reject mixed offspring but also denounces those who support their children, enabling them to surpass the achievements of “blacks,” especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The truth is that nothing would make a black like him angrier than a complete acceptance of part-black Anglos and Creoles into the “white caste.” He would lose his presumed “right” to off-the-record “miscegenation” with beautiful “white” women whose whiteness is denied. That’s the only thing that makes him REALLY angry, not the alleged “rape” of some poor, black teen. Black teenage girls are raped all the time in the ghettoes by black rapists, but King and his ilk would rather focus on long dead or mythological “white” rapists.
A Story Much Older Than Ol’ Strom
by Colbert I. King
The Washington Post
Saturday, December 20, 2003; Page A21
Cole Blease was speaking out in defense of lynching, a brand of Southern “justice” well known to black men, particularly those accused of getting too familiar with white women. Convinced of the enduring lust of black men for white women, and fearful of what might happen if the two ever got together, voices such as Blease’s in the patriarchal white South rose to the defense of lynching as well as of laws barring interracial marriage and cohabitation.
Okay, none of that is new, though a few die-hards still won’t admit it.
What makes that sordid history ironic is the story of 22-year-old Strom Thurmond fathering the child of a 16-year-old black girl — a household servant no less — in 1925. Since I’ve already had my say about Thurmond, the teenager, Essie Butler (aka “Tunch”) and their child, Essie Mae Washington (“No Party for Essie Mae,” Dec. 21, 2002), there’s no need to plow over that old ground. There is, however, more to be said about that era of rank hypocrisy, the “race mixing” that Blease and Thurmond so vehemently and publicly fought, and the profound effect such sexual exploitation has had on African Americans.