Hate On Me

[guest blogged by Univgurl]

Self-Hating Jackasses

I'm not even going to try to be impartial on this topic. I cannot stand people who hate themselves. Of all the things in the world to lash out vitriol upon, they can't find anything worse than themselves. It's one thing when they beat up on themselves and piss and moan about what they concieve to be their negative attributes, but people who defile their entire race or ethnic group are in a whole other category all together.

I don't understand it, many parts of me do not want to understand it, but I'd like to explore the allegations of one such individual, Erin a mother of three who appeared on an episode of the Dr. Phil program November 6th.

courtesy The Dr. Phil Show

"I have wished that I was white a couple of times, because I’m ashamed of the black people," says Erin, mother of three. "If I see a black kid at the park, I would not let my kids play with them. I would rather have my kids playing with white kids."

Why Erin? Because they smell like lemons and green bean casserole? (Somebody used to always say that and had me CTFU.)



SIDENOTE-THIS BITCH IS FUGLY. THERE, I SAID IT. Now she can hate big chicks with dreds.

Erin describes her experience with members of her own race. "Most black people that I know, they’re either: drug users, drug sellers, gangbangers, uneducated, live in the ghetto, loud," she explains.

To pharaphrase Katt Williams, Ph.D, "You need to figure out what's wrong [with your black ass] that keeps attracting these "ain't sh*t" [black people].

As she walks outdoors, she points out, "This is your typical black neighborhood. It’s filled with trashy people who are on welfare. It’s totally disgusting. I am way too good for this neighborhood." Ummm...but your dumb ass lives there. You can't be too great or white Jesus would've ushered you out of that long ago. (Forgive me, but I love The Boondocks.) Showing another section of town, she says, "This is the ideal neighborhood for me, because it’s all white. Look at this house right here. Do you see any broken windows? No. I don’t." Give me strength.

As Erin eats in a restaurant, she comments, "This is my kind of place because I see no black people here. They’re all white. I belong here, because I fit in with all these white people." Until you walk your black ass outta there. So, she's longing to be around white folks? So you hate these negroes you live around in the "ghetto", but you have decided that whiteism is what you want to practice. Why them? Why not Mongolians? Why don't you take your ass to Siberia and find out.

Erin's beliefs influenced her choice of soul mate. "I married a white guy, because he treats me like a queen. A black guy, never!" she shares. "People call me a racist, but hey, it’s working for me." But he has yet to save you from the ghetto you live in and whisk you away to the white haven that you can now only visit. You must've married yourself a fixer-upper.

[Referring to a member of Dr. Phil's staff] "The way he’s dressed, I would think he’s a piece of trash.”

Noting that Erin’s husband is white, Dr. Phil asks her, “So how do you feel about the fact that he married a black woman?”

“He made a great choice,” she says.

“How can that be?” Dr. Phil asks rhetorically, repeating Erin’s statements about black women.

“I am none of those things,” she says.

“But that’s what you assume of all of your African-American sisters,” Dr. Phil points out.

“They’re not my sisters,” she says, quietly. She points out that she often hears other black men and women referring to members of their race with slang terms. “I hear a lot of the black community refer to their girlfriends as, ‘Bitch, this. Bitch, you crazy.’ That doesn’t work with me.”

Another audience member asks her, “So you have never, in your life, seen any other race of people who act like that, other than black people?”
“I have,” she says. (Insert your thoughts here, please.)

You never see this attitude with other races. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but you never see it on the level of black folk.

There may be things that you may not like that are characteristic of your race (and sometimes thinking that way is pushing it), but to condemn and hate your own race on some shit some other race have pounded in your fragile mind, is unconscionable.

I don't want y'all to be as mad as I am, so please tell me how I could not be this upset at this woman. Is it just a personal problem Erin has that deserves no real attention from people like ourselves?

Does she hold any valid points?

Have you ever felt ashamed of identifying with your race and/or ethnic group?

Please talk to me.