Courtesy of Ebony.com
There’s an online petition leveled against EURWeb over writer Cory Alexander Haywood’s Black woman-bashing piece, “The Black Hat: Hey Sisters, Feel Free to Pursue White Men; They Don’t Want You Anyway.” The petition, which calls for FBI intervention, is a wee bit too hyperbolic for my linking and reads as one of those unfortunate forms of virtual protests that I have often complained about in the past. Still, even if I don’t agree with the petitioner’s methodology, the anger that spawned it is justified.
Haywood’s essay is more than worthy of public griping and deserving every form of damning reasonable people can think of. It’s a stupid piece of work from an ignorant man looking for the sort of attention he evidently didn’t get enough in other areas in his tragic life that has gave way to such hateful views of the women in his community. A Black man clutching patriarchy more lovingly than a Black woman is not a new concept, but the desperation many outlets have with regards to netting web clicks has given it a new life. If you told me I had six seconds to end that life, I’d say, “Hand me the knife.”
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