I've been talking about this issue with my younger brother lately. He's an Airman First Class in the US Airforce and his job entails that he's on flight crew. Here is a little background on the the Airforce (according to my brother). Of all the US Airforce roles/jobs only 1% of Airforce military personnel works directly in flight (ie, pilots, co-polits, flight personnel/crew). Of that 1% only 1% are African-American. So when my brothers hanging w/his co-workers Betty & Sue (excuse the generic names) are all up in his grill. I know this, not only because he told me so, BUT because of two instances:
1. He visited for the holidays last year & his phone rings. I was closer to it so he told me to answer it before it hung up. I answered it & some fresh thing answers the phone and says, "Do you want to F@@k"
I said what? She replied, "This is [____ ] & I got a text message saying so & so wanted to f@@K." (This dummy had to realize by now she was talking to a woman) I replied, "Well this is not so & sos #" I handed my bro. the phone & he put her on speaker phone (because he knew from my facial expressions, this wasn't the average phone call) & kindly explained to this girl (mind you this was before noon that day) that she had the wrong #. Do you know she replied, "Oh...well I still wanna f**k." He hung up the phone (because it was obvious nothing was getting through to her)...then called one of his Airforce friends and went smack off. It turns out he knew the guy the girl was asking for & he told homeboy to keep his "girls" in check. My brother told me the friend said, "Man she thought you was cute. I was just trying to hook you up." He replied NO THANKS and told his "friend" his sister had answered the phone & that he had better taste than that and he should too.
2. I went to his myspace (I'm not into myspace so this was my first time seeing his page) earlier this year. There was a photo of him w/one non Black girl on either side of him (two in total) dressed in vintage flight attendant uniforms while he was in his actual flight uniform, & his arms were spread over both their shoulders. The picture read, "I'm so fly I have my own flight attendants." I called him asap asking WTF he was doing taking any pictures with women esp. non-Black women as props. He replied it was harmless & those girls were there (in Afghanistan) to take pictures w/all servicemen who were done for that tour & and headed back to the US.
I guess these girls were eye candy? This is an example of what people have been saying about society idealizing European/anything but Black beauty. Why weren't there any Black women greeters?
Bottom line he knows what time it is...my brother is a catch and no matter how much I love him I will not accept anyone for him unless they are of African descent. Flash forward today. He has a live in girlfriend (she's Black) and he told me the girl was nervous about meeting the fam for the holidays (I have some crazy aunts). He told her, "Don't worry. I'll just tell everyone you're really white and I was ashamed to admit it. When I introduce you everybody will be so relieved they'll love you!" I couldn't help but laugh...