{"id":5407,"date":"2005-05-22T23:06:03","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T23:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:42","slug":"whats-up-with-dark-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/22\/whats-up-with-dark-men\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Up With Dark Men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/authors.asp?ID=15\">What&#8217;s Up With Dark Men? <\/a><br \/>\nBy David Yeagley<br \/>\nFrontPageMagazine.com<br \/>\nFebruary 26, 2002<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WHITE WOMEN ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, desirable creatures on earth, judging from the way dark men crave them.<\/p>\n<p>A black man loves white women, said Eldridge Cleaver, in Soul On Ice (1968) &#8220;Ain&#8217;t nothing more beautiful than a white woman&#8217;s hair being blown in the wind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But a black woman&#8217;s hair doesn&#8217;t blow in the wind. She only wishes it would.<\/p>\n<p>Black scholar Noliwe Rooks, in Hair Raising (1996), says ever since black women were brought to America, they&#8217;ve been trying to look &#8220;white.&#8221;\u009d They try to change their appearance through skin whiteners, hair straighteners, and even bright blond hair dyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s Up With Dark Men? By David Yeagley FrontPageMagazine.com February 26, 2002 WHITE WOMEN ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, desirable creatures on earth, judging from the way dark men crave them. A black man loves&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,63,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1pd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5531,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/5531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}