Unfortunately I knew this. The real shame is that very little has changed. I don't actually care who anyone loves, but I hate that historically Black women have been dismissed, abused and exploited by society and yet we are the mother's of our culture. Black women need to drop the false narrative of loyalty to those that don't respect them. Rise up Black Women ! Don't settle. Raise your children and keep men that aren't husband material out of sight.
Can l add my two cents ? I'm not even American, but l value black American women because l sincerely believe that things improved because of their contribution. So imagine my shock and disappointment when Judge Joe Brown said that Harriet Tubman could not be in the 20 dollar bill before a black man because...i dont know, he had some stupid misogynistic reason why. I was in my teens when l read that story. It changed me fundamentally, believe it or not. I didn't even know the term misoygnoir but indentified the injustice towards black women. I also watched the talk between Nicky Giovanni and James Baldwin. It was also shocking to see a gay black and open-minded man spout problematic views like he had. No one is perfect, but you just expect better from some people.
You forgot Eddie Murphy. He had a Black wife and Black girlfriends, yet now he's with his snow bunny and swears that he's a changed man because of her. Then James Earl Jones, Richard Roundtree, Ice T, Quincy Jones and this list could go on and on and on. Some Black men will ride with Black women while they're broke, but once they've made it, they'll divorce the Black women and then transition to snow bunnies and give them them the world.
This guy from Mississippi just said it’s a badge of honor to have a ww on your arm. He adopted yt children ( probably not legally it’s his ex’s kids) but never mentioned that he has a black daughter. When he shows pictures of his kids he only shows us the very pale yt ones but the kicker is, their real father is in their lives.
I'm still upset with what happened with Anna Murray Douglass. I mean, all these wives suffered with cheating husbands, but Anna Murray Douglass had her contributions erased along with Kathy Ambush. Like these men are bums when it comes to treating their wives, who are the same color as them!! Like??!!! You really gave don't like us or yourselves. I just. . . okay.
I understand black men's preferences in marriage can change as they progress professionally, for whatever their reasons. It is their choice. But, I don't understand them not crediting the black wives who contributed to their success. The black wives gave much support and encouragement to these men when they needed it the most. Only to be replaced with white women whom these men married as prestigious trophies.
@ yes but I can’t stand that they disparage BW as an excuse to be with other women. They do that because they know their actions are seen as treasonous. Just go and be with whomever you want, you don’t need a scapegoat to date Becky and ‘nem
I was today years old when I found out that Sidney Poitier had 4 children with his black wife! They constantly show him with the daughter he had with his Caucasian wife. Wow. Smh
@@terriw919fyi In this same book did he reveal the story about Harry telling him that he would never be more than a stagehand because he was darker skinned ?
And this is why the topic of hypergamy is becoming increasingly popular amongst bw. It's too much of a gamble being with someone that has "potential " or starting out, because once they're successful, they leave. Good commentary.
This isn't a 'have your own' thing. This is a vet wisely thing. Make sure the man you choose views you as his dream woman and never marry a colorist wich rules out most black men. There are tons of cases of women who out earn their husbands who end up broke,broken and or dead. So, vet them rigorously and if you're incapable of doing so, don't play the game.
@@ninawestlake5005 people also mask. According to what you have said, every one of these women must not have vetted properly. Some people are clearly red flags. Others dye their flags and it isn't until dye fades that they are revealed.
I was an adult (in my 30s) by the time I found out that Frederick Douglass had a 2nd wife! The only discussions we had (during African/black history month) were about his lovely first wife! I believe many were ashamed of his second marriage and didn't disclose it to us (as youth). Or, many were like me, completely clueless about it.
I just learned about it in the last three years and my guess is, if they revealed the truth about him, he wouldn't be so revered as he is now. In my day, we were only taught about the top five: Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, MLK, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. Malcolm X and others came later.
Thanks for sharing! I would love to see an expose on Earl Woods ex wife also. I was shocked to find out he had a Black wife for 18 years and had 5 Black children.
Yeah I appreciate him for his art. But he didn’t have to speak ill and generalize black women. He spoke ill of his black and Native American grandmother like it wasn’t yt folks fault she was that way.
Traditionally, the accomplishments of wives, whether Black or white, have always been diminished, discounted and glossed over, although I believe Black women have had the greater burden. Marriage is tough. I have the greatest respect for Denzel Washington, Courtney B. Vance, Samuel Jackson, and others in sports and music who made it work in the long run.
did u know denzel had an affair with sanaa latham when he made a movie with her she got pregnant but had a abortion and that young girl that was passed around at diddys partys mr goodie two shoes denzel slept with her she even said he did used to like him not anymore fing hypocrite
Especially Courtney because his wife is Angela Bassett and her fame and accomplishments have somewhat eclipsed his. He is her biggest fan and never seems jealous.
Didnt Fredrick Douglas bring two white women into his house whilst his first wife was alive, the two that looked down their noses at her? The same woman who worked her fingers for the bones to feed their kids whilst he glavanted round the world doing talks/ Pan Africanist stuff ?
Sounds like the Black Wife picked up the slack of the Black mother and then paid the price when the husband decided he wanted to prove him self with a woman who didn't know his past and that he needed a woman to financially and emotionally support him in anyway he was supposed to support her. The worst form of cowardice apparently specific to black men and black women relationships. No other group in poverty has this consistently happen.
Very interesting! I never knew Sidney had a black wife. All of them were very smart. Too bad their husbands couldn’t pass that success on them and uplift the image of the black family. Since people look to celebrities. One reason why women should make their own money. ❤
WELL, do not forget about Thurgood Marshall since we are on a roll!! So sad but true. I honestly had a hard time identifying with all the aforementioned men..... because I believe that when you love, wouldn't you want to marry yourself???? This is a product of self-hatred, according to noted black psychiatrist, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing.
"Douglass' Women," written by Jewel Parker Rhodes, is a splendid read, and details some of the things highlighted in this video. It is historical fiction, but it's accurately researched and written from the passionate perspective of Anna Douglass.
I think they’re all disgusting! Each of their wives contributed immeasurably to the success of her husband’s career, while making a home for them & raising their children.
Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Jordan, Kevin Hart. But it's harder to look back and see their black wives than it is to see who they generally gravitate to like James Earl Jones, Michael eric Dyson and Cornel West.
Sammy Davis went back to black after parading around with white women for years and he STAYED married to his black wife, he knew exactly what he was doing.
The quintessential placeholder or in-the-meantime life strategy. Why do people behave this way, and not just blacks? If you know you really don't want someone romantically, just leave. But...this game still continues today because people want their cake, and they want to eat it too. They don't care at all how they might destroy you. Will we ever evolve in this area as humans?🤔
Thank you for the great video and preparation it took, it’s extremely informative. I hope we learn to only give from what overflows from our full cups. Lesson for all of us, only give what you do not need for yourself…give what is excess and will not be missed or regretted if not reciprocated.
Just because their reasons were complex, doesn't make it right.... But what these women did wrong was that they were too sacrificial. Women, if they have good parents with good marriages, should listen to their parent's opinions and deeply consider what they say about their possible future spouses, that would've saved them alot of suffering.
I remember a UA-camr commeting how great it was that OJ wive NEVER lied on him. "Kudos to that sista" the youtuber said. They love celebrating that type of stuff.
The responsibility of uplifting the world is often on black women’s back, while we simultaneously accomplish things at a rapidly successful rate. Yet, the men of our same race have often taken us for granted and that’s a light explanation. With that being said, this is why hypergamy dating is on the rise for bw. Also, we gotta stop riding for these men and their potential. Go where you are respected and celebrated! *YOU DESERVE BETTER BW* 💯
Douglass stated. "This proves I am impartial. My first wife was the color of my mother and the second, the color of my father." His justification I imagine.
The more I studied Harry's life, his activism was amazing, his affair was deplorable. Harry and Marguerite were not compatible because she wasn't into being an activist wife. OJ and Clarence Thomas have removed themselves from the Black community, Harry and Frederick Douglas dedicated their lives to helping oppressed Black people globally.
Harry also told Eartha Kitt, a Black woman who was also an activist that a Black woman couldn't do anything for him after screwing her. The math isn't mathing.
The problem I had with Harry was that despite his activism, he was a major hypocrite who criticized other black people. He turned his back on black women, just like too many other successful black men.
im 61 a dark woman and i married a white guy back in 80s my mum especially my mother used to say to me an my sisters marry your own kind i did not understand what she meant i use to have crushes on michael jackson when he was black ha ha an wesley snipes in 90s but i thought i was all that til my marriage broke up in 90s my now adult kids son an daughter dont like me love their father well thats were they come from his loins i cant see the grandkids my 2 adult kids are terrible to me my daughter swears curses me out me an her do not have a mum daughter relationship ive helped her so much til last yr 2024 ive broken from her now i can see what my mum means they have different outlooks needs wants so ppls dont be a fool like me im stayin single til i hit the grave
All I hear and see from these mini bios is that All these Men were straight Users! of Amazingly Intelligent Hard working, loyalty to the most highest! Great Wives and Mothers and undeserving of low down husbands.
l thought Anna Murray, Frederic Douglass' first wife, had died before he remarried. As far as Sidney Poitier, while l don't appreciate how he mistreated his first wife, the real love of his life was Dianne Carroll, despite marrying his second wife. Please read Poitier's book, "This Life"... quite an eye opener into he and Dianne's love story.
@@fergieferg9192say it again for the folks in the back! Ray Charles can see what’s going on!!!!! 😂 In his defense, if you dig into the SOCIAL lives of a few of the men listed as well as some folks are recommending in the comments…it’s a lot of Tyler Perry’s in here…..
This is so annoying. They just took the black women for granted. The black women had to give them everything, but the white women didn't have to give much at all. I've always admired Sidney as an actor, but I was surprised to learn he married a white woman based on the roles he played and what I heard about him as a black man.
Frederick Douglass would have died a slave on that plantation if Anna didn't help him. Harry, Sidney and Clarence wives literally financially supported them, putting them through acting school and university. Imagine how OJ Simpsons life would have been if he had stayed married to Margurite, who himself said was a great wife who didn't want to be famous. He wouldn't have become a murderer and the most disgraced athlete in history. In the book "Raging Heart" which is about OJ and Nicoles marriage. OJs longtime maid said Margurite was always respectful and kind and she rarely saw OJ and her argue. But in his marriage to Nicole, they argued constantly and said Nicole would refer to OJs family as the N word and say she didn't want his kids visiting them. OJ was a fool.
What about Diana Ross,Diahann Carroll, Tina Turner, Whoopi Goldberg, Lynn Whitfield, Vanessa Williams, Lena Horne, Garcelle Beauvais, Tika Sumpter, Alfre Woodard, Ella Fitzgerald etc…………………
Smart women whom ;being in the business with many powerful bk men realised early on that blk men werent about community values or building resources.Diana Ross for example dated a few blk musicians/producers and was treated like trash. Thats like 0.01% of bw most bw are loyal and long-suffering .
That's cause they couldn't get a black husband because the famous wealthy black men all wanted white wives. Further more, they didn't leave anyone who helped them move up. And for Tina, if I'd gone through what she went through with that black man, I'd never look at another black man. An by the way, she didn't marry again until she became an old woman.
Tina I give props to. She went through years of abuse with Ike and raised his children. Her husband who was with her until the end, helped to revamp her career, stood by her through thick and thin and loved her when she was down before her career too off again. That true love, which she deserved particularly after all she went through. As for the others SMH especially Diana Ross who had a hair transplant to look more European. Vanessa Williams, she had dated and was married to black men in the past and has her children with them, she has so happened to find love with a white man, so happy for her. The rest went with white men to further themselves, sad really.
Frederick Douglas loved his BLACK WIFE dearly and was heartbroken when she died, that's when he married his white wife (not immediately) who was his assistant. don't lump him with the rest to fit your narrative.
Frederick Douglas lived with his Black wife (Anna) but the white woman (Helen) whom he would later marry wanted him so much that she and her Uncle lived in the house next to his in Rochester, so she had holes cut into BOTH houses so that a passageway could be placed between them. This way, she could intrude on the Douglases any time she wished. Helen’s family was Douglas’ benefactor, and as such, neither Frederick nor Anna could say no to her. Anna became sick with depression (I wonder why?) and Helen “nursed” her, but after some time Anna died anyway. Then, Helen married him. Coincidence? I think not…
No, Fredrick was in a relationship with the yt woman in their home while his wife was ill at that. Yes, of course he married her after the wife died because it was illegal to have two wives.
@@cocolyndon4604: Also at that time, adultery was a civil offense. That didn’t seem to stop either one of them, Fred or his rich white woman. Truly disgusting.
He showed his love to Anna by bringing 3 of his white mistresses into their home and made Anna serve them. He practically wrote 2 sentences about Anna in his autobiography and was lying to Anna telling her he wrote all about her, knowing she couldn't read to check. Anna even funded his studies and his newspaper. Let's also not forget his 25-year affair with Ottile Assing, who thought he would marry her after Anna died but he instead married Helen. Ottie killed herself because of that. His children HATED him so much for how he treated their mother Anna and wrote her out of his story that they wrote a biography for her called "My Mother as I Knew her." They said she was as involved as Frederick in the underground railroad and should not be forgotten. He also was against black women having the right to vote and called Sojourner Truth uncultured.
I am literally today old finding out Frederick was married to white woman. Unbelievable. Disappointing. Shame on his legacy. I will no longer admire. *I will add that I am not against interracial relationships, it just that this one and those like them hits differently
"He knew deep down he was never good enough for her" hardly a way to round up the great legacy that Harry Belafonte left to the world especially for African Americans.
Chicken or pork that's definitely going against food safety. That's a lot of food to take home and refrigerate. The cutting tool should have been taken home along with the meat and if they don't serve pork why order it. That place need a total inspection from the Health Department. I wonder what they're pass scores has been😮
Meh. Black women tend to be about struggle love. When you marry down don't be surprised if you end up getting dumped, regardless of what race of man you marry. Marry up but have your own life together before you even think about marriage and don't even consider having a child before you're married.
Didn't you say that Sidney Poitier have an affair with a black actress before marrying a white woman? I heard that their affair lasted decades. I feel bad for the black wives who got cheated on and pushed aside, for sure. No woman deserves that. But I also feel some racism behind your statement that these black men married "white women" because it implies that only white women broke up their marriages with black women and their own children. Who knows? Maybe the other black men also had affairs with black women. Why make this topic a divisive racial issue?
Because we constantly see this pattern over and over again of black men marrying white women when they gain fame and fortune. Let's say they have a black mistress, why don't they marry her then? It's always the white mistress that he goes on to leave the black wife for. I also hate when we discuss this topic and people fiend dumb like it isn't a thing. Hell I saw a list of African kings/presidents after their countries got independence from their colonizers and nearly all of them married white women. They made a whole movie about Botswana's king Seretse Khama quest to marry a white woman while his people suffered in poverty. Senegal just got their first ever black first lady because all the ones that came before her were white women. But as per usual when black women call this out, we get gaslighted or blamed. It is racial because it basically shows that white is seen as superior, a trophy and benchmark of success. I hope black women see this pattern and act accordingly. Stop investing in men who only use us to help elevate them, then abandon us for women they see as superior because of their skin.
Can you do a story of a few of the famous black female celebrity entertainers who divorced their black husbands to date or marry a white guy because they felt that it would help them boost their social status?
@dexkato7329,A few from a generation older than i am and that i read about come to mind.Pearl Bailey,Lena Horne,Dianne Carroll and Tina Turner.All of their last husbands were white men.Their social status were booster before these last marriages which in its self is interesting
This is very common place and required for any black man to advance in society whether it be sports, acting or politics! There is a very long list of men who choose that route! Today we have welfare to dismantle the black family, back then we had the wt woman!
how is welfare dismantling the blk family what they get is peanuts? ,if a working blk man has no plan b when theres job loss or separation its due to lack of education or inability to think outside of the box .Poverty and scarcity mindset is not just a blk issue neither
Welfare was created for yt people, black people could not even get it and today, as it has always been, yts are the largest demographics of people who use welfare. Stop believing the stereotypes and do some research, you don't have to dig deep either.
Wrong Samuel L Jackson and Denzel Washington are the most highly paid accomplished actors in Hollywood and they didn't need to have a non b w or leave their dark skinned blk wives to do it.
These men became famous and accomplished while with their black wives. The white women only wanted them after they had money. Something I notice is their careers actually don't get better. Like after Harry and Sidney married their white wives' what movies did they get? It's like their career accession actually stopped. OJ was already in his 30s and was a huge star when he met a teenage Nicole. His life and career didn't get better once they married it actually got worst (I read the book Raging Heart about their marriage, Nicole destroyed that man's life before he killed her.) I literally cannot think of any black man who got with a white woman and his life improved. Kanye was respected and huge before he got with Kim, look what happened to him after marrying her. White people receive the most welfare and their families are still intact, stop this lie that welfare took the black man out of the home. He didn't own the home and didn't want to be in it.
I take it with a grain of salt when a black woman makes a vlog on this particular subject , However in keeping with the narrative these rather unfortunate women would have better off marrying " ordinary " men instead of these men who became " celebrities " .
It sounds like you are in major denial and can't handle the truth about black men who covet white women once they become successful. The list is way too long...
These men were ordinary, I would even say, far beneath the black women they married. It was the black women helping them attain their fortune and fame. But as always, true to their nature and with the blood of Cain in them, they all used, betrayed and abandoned their black wives just to have a white woman on their arms. The black man is Cain.
I won't let NOTHING or NO ONE soil My Fredrick Douglas's reputation 🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚but the others well they did that to themselves 🤔 Fredrick was too busy fighting for freedom to be caught up in THIS mess🤔❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚
Really? The truth is true no matter who tells it. Douglass wasn't a god, just a fallible man who also did some good things -- like most people. Give him flowers, if you must, but please remember all roses have thornes.
Read his entire biography. He literally dogged his first Black wife, who helped him escape slavery. He was so flagrant with his worship of WW, he moved them into his home with his Black wife. Some of his own children shunned him because of the way he treated their mother.
Generally, this is a very informed, accurate history. But there are three points of serious historical and moral error in this otherwise illuminating, detailed, and troubling (in a good way) exploration. The first involves the implied moral equivalencies between Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Fredrick Douglass, on the one hand, and the likes of O.J. Simpson and Clarence Thomas on the other hand. But in fact, however very problematic as husbands Belafonte, Poitier were, both were artists and activists who bequeathed artistic, cultural, and political legacies of enormous moral, creative, and cultural power on a world-scale. BY CONTRAST, both O.J. Simpson and Clarence Thomas have left entirely and literally corrupted legacies in their chosen fields, acting and jurisprudence: Simpson performed, if that is the word, largely updated versions of minstrelsy via his one-dimensional stereotype Black roles and Thomas has almost literally prostituted himself before American Fascists and oligarchs at the expense of American democracy in general and Black people in particular. SECOND, while Belafonte, Poitier, and Douglass were philanderers -- as were Franklin Roosevelt, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Jr., the late Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison, and any number of other political and artistic leading men of the movement to expand democracy -- Belafonte, Poitier, and Douglass were NOT EVER the serial partner beaters/abusers as was Simpson to both of his wives ( for which he consistently received a free-pass from the White police and the White-dominated courts). The DNA evidence alone convicts Simpson of the murders he committed. But he had a long, ugly prior history of physical and psychological violence against his women, prior to his ultimate crimes, a history that both his wealth and DENIAL of and DISTANCING from those Black communities (plural) of less privilege and wealth than the "talented tenth" and his wealthy Black peers would afford him. THIRD, Clarence Thomas is an especially egregious figure, since he commands the most institutional power of all the aforementioned powerful, wealthy Black men. It is over this figure, Clarence Thomas, that the historian/host makes the most egregious of factual errors, and I will list them thus; a). Clarence Thomas was NEVER, EVER a "Liberal," Democrat or otherwise, in his college days. IN FACT, he was a stridently racialist SEPARATIST: an anti-integrationist, Black nationalist who fancied himself as something of a Marcus Garvey follower (although he was far closer in idéology and Fascist power admiration to the violently, sadistically misogynoirist Eldridge Cleaver) b). Clarence Thomas was notorious for harassing and threatening Black women-White men (bwwm) couples on campus, holding to the racist, misogynoirist view that Black women-White men couples (a) "betrayed" the rightful, exclusivist sexual domination of Black women by Black men and (b) that children of Black women-White men marriages/families "contaminated" the Black race -- an argument strikingly similar to White supremacist, Right-wing, Fascist ideation about the "need" to maintain the (entirely fictional) "purity" of the White "race" (Black nationalist ideology consistently mirrors, reflects, and echos White racist/nationalist themes, manias, and wholly invented racial myths of "superiority," a telling, damning irony that conveys a crypto-White fetishism among so-called Black "nationalists") c). Clarence Thomas's rank, rancid, and racist hypocrisy regarding his abject desire to forbid Black women/White men unions -- upon the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, he opined in his consent that SCOTUS should use the "logic" of the overthrow to "revisit" and thus likewise overturn both Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell v. Hodges, thus enabling Red States (and Red districts in Blue States) to render interracial and Gay marriage illegal once again. It does NOT and should NEVER escape any historian's discernment that Loving v. Virginia rendered interracial marriage legal throughout the land based on the case brought by the bwwm married couple, the Lovings, a fact that galls Thomas to such depths that he makes clear his racialist animus via his consenting ruling to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, a document, HIS official SCOTUS document of immense legal, state power -- and a conscious, loathsome invitation/ blueprint for the racist Right-wing/GOP to pursue the overturn of both Loving v. Virginia and Obergefol v. Hodges, which they WILL. The appalling racist inhumanity of Thomas is as staggering as his execrable patriarchal hypocrisy, given that he reserves for HIMSELF (and by extension other Black men) the sole "right" (i.e., privilege) to marry a White woman while using HIS institutional power of the federal state to limit Black women's (and Gay people's) choices to love and live their best lives. Overall, this UA-cam piece on the Black wives of very powerful, wealthy, and influential Black men both informs and raises disturbing questions that covers ALL men of power from ALL communities, regarding said men's public aspirations for expanding democracy versus said powerful men's actual practice of patriarchal privilege, sexual dictatorship, and betrayal of the women in said men's private, intimate lives. But however problematic a Douglass or Belafonte -- or a Roosevelt, Kennedy, or late Beatle, for that matter -- was in their treatment of their first wives, NEITHER a Douglass NOR a Belafonte was ever the monstrous abuser that Simpson was -- and no Douglass, Belafonte, or Poitier ever had the institutional power of state that Clarence Thomas has, a power that Thomas so sadistically, viciously, obscenely, and corruptly wields for the benefit of the of the sadistically, viciously, obscenely, corruptly privileged, wealthy few at the literal expense of everybody else.
@@MAAT1111 : Arch ironies aside, it is an irrefutable fact that OJ and Donald J. Serial Rapist are to "innocence" as the Kardasians are to the Shomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture (NYC academic centre of high intellectual production and culture) : complete alien, off-planet extraterrestrials with malign, hostile designs. CASES IN POINT: lest you have "forgotten," successive juries have found Donald J. Serial Rapist (a) liable for rape and slander therein (b) liable to the State and city of New York for defrauding same said of five hundred million dollars (c) GUILTY on all thirty-four felony counts of fraud and election interference and obstruction (d) liable for defrauding contributors to his "charity" foundation and banned for the entirety of his life and that of his family from ever again running any "charity" foundation in the State of New York. Given the enormity of evidence amassed against Donald J Serial Rapist for his conspiracies to (a) overthrow the results of duly fair state and national presidential elections (b) to incite a Hitlerian Beer Hall Putsch-on-the-Potomac, which (c) were the "United" States indeed a république under the Rule of Law instead of the Regime under the Law of Oligarchal and Racist rulers that it is, juries would have had the opportunity to review and surely would have convicted him of those aforementioned high crimes and misdemeanors IN ADDITION to those for which separate juries have ALREADY CONVICTED and/or held him liable. To claim so ludicrously that juries have found Donald J. Serial Rapist "not guilty" in his lifelong crime spree is to beg the placement of laughing, mocking emojis in response. As for OJ Simpson: his wealth and fame enabled him to skate almost entirely free of legal consequence for his decades -- decades--of extreme spousal abuse, and the "framing" gambit you float here has zéro credibility in that the institutionally racist LA police department and judicial system had, for decades, nonetheless given a free pass to Simpson's well-reported, court-documented domestic violence precisely because (a) Simpson had the wealth to pay for various "dream teams" (the execrable Kardashian family's initial wealth derives entirely from the late family patriarch, Robert Kardashian,Esq., a well-connected LA attorney of the rich and famous who was one of OJ Simpson's myriad "dream team" attorneys) and (c) the largely Black working-class women of OJ's murder trial jury took revenge on the historically racist White judicial system in general and White Karens and Beckies in particular by engaging in "Jury Nullification," i.e., giving a free pass to Simpson as a rebuke to hundreds of years of White racism and White women privilege. I merely state the irrefutable, damning facts. You post emojis. We'll leave it that.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 : To state the obvious: rendering to the states to make illegal interracial marriage would leave Clarence Thomas's marriage with a White woman legal in WA DC and, due to his institutional power and unbroken history of doing White racist, Right-wing and oligarchal bidding -- LITERALLY -- his interracial marriage would suffer little or no consequences even were he to visit and/or relocating in the South. His wealth, his high office, his own racist Black "nationalist" ideals --dovetailing perfectly with the racist separatism doctrine of White "nationalism" --and his decades of using his institutional power for upholding White racist, classist hierarchies would according dispensation (in caste/racial hierarchies, there are ALWAYS "exceptions"). Black men, targeted for extreme violence over the centuries over "miscegenation" strictures, nonetheless have carved out and retained odd, paradoxical powers that contradict racial caste but accord perfectly with PATRIARCHAL privilege, which would provide them protection for existing interracial marriages that Black women would not have, such as (a) White racist society considers and defines many White women in bmww marriages as less "desirable" in terms of class, sexual attractiveness, and social mobility, and thus as less or non-threatening to the social order (b) Black men have, with a high level of perhaps less-than-conscious collusion of strata of Black women, embraced and adapted White racist notions of beauty and hierarchy via colourism, texturism, featurism, according White women (and racially ambiguous Black women) within Black communities higher status. Additionally, Black men with the collusion of socially influential Black women have made until very recently Black women-White men (and other "outside-community") intimate relationships and marriages taboo, providing (c) community sanctuary for bmww marriages that do NOT exist in any similar, parallel degree for Black women. Clarence Thomas has wealth, the highest institutional power short of the presidency, and favour among the most powerful arbiters of White racist/classist rule in the "United' States. He knows this. Thus, he feels free and empowered to advocate and provide the legal blueprint/map (his written concurrence with the overturn of Roe v. Wade) for the overturn of both Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell, which he made absolutely clear in said concurrence. Further, Thomas, as an unreconstructed Black nationalist patriarchalist (with a notorious, infamous history of sexual harassment against his peer highly educated professional Black women under his direct patronage ) KNOWS full well both the (a) dispensations White racist power-structures and communities will accord any number of Black men with White wives, overriding the return of anti-miscegenation laws and (b) Thomas KNOWS full well the social taboo Black women of modest means face against their entering interracial marriages in general and bwwm marriages above all, social strictures enforced via targeted ostracism to outright violence. All of this makes Clarence Thomas worse than an odious hypocrite, a misogynoirist, and a racist ally of White supremacist. It makes him evil by the consciousness of his sadism and the power he freely uses in corrupting democracy in matters of state and personal lives.
Unfortunately I knew this. The real shame is that very little has changed. I don't actually care who anyone loves, but I hate that historically Black women have been dismissed, abused and exploited by society and yet we are the mother's of our culture. Black women need to drop the false narrative of loyalty to those that don't respect them.
Rise up Black Women ! Don't settle. Raise your children and keep men that aren't husband material out of sight.
Yup. OJ siad his wife was his sister. Imagine that.
Agree💯
Can l add my two cents ? I'm not even American, but l value black American women because l sincerely believe that things improved because of their contribution. So imagine my shock and disappointment when Judge Joe Brown said that Harriet Tubman could not be in the 20 dollar bill before a black man because...i dont know, he had some stupid misogynistic reason why. I was in my teens when l read that story. It changed me fundamentally, believe it or not. I didn't even know the term misoygnoir but indentified the injustice towards black women. I also watched the talk between Nicky Giovanni and James Baldwin. It was also shocking to see a gay black and open-minded man spout problematic views like he had. No one is perfect, but you just expect better from some people.
Black women simply need to do the same! they may be VERY pleasently surprised
@@siriusjones956 But, I'm glad she liberated herself from that man and the black woman wasn't the one who died JS
You forgot Eddie Murphy. He had a Black wife and Black girlfriends, yet now he's with his snow bunny and swears that he's a changed man because of her. Then James Earl Jones, Richard Roundtree, Ice T, Quincy Jones and this list could go on and on and on. Some Black men will ride with Black women while they're broke, but once they've made it, they'll divorce the Black women and then transition to snow bunnies and give them them the world.
Then snow bunny run off with their money, one way or another.
@@sd247...and get with a white man😆
Man, the bitterness and hate needed to perpetuate this narrative.
Eddy Murphy likes black transwomen so that ought to count for something lol 😂
This guy from Mississippi just said it’s a badge of honor to have a ww on your arm. He adopted yt children ( probably not legally it’s his ex’s kids) but never mentioned that he has a black daughter. When he shows pictures of his kids he only shows us the very pale yt ones but the kicker is, their real father is in their lives.
I'm still upset with what happened with Anna Murray Douglass. I mean, all these wives suffered with cheating husbands, but Anna Murray Douglass had her contributions erased along with Kathy Ambush. Like these men are bums when it comes to treating their wives, who are the same color as them!! Like??!!! You really gave don't like us or yourselves. I just. . . okay.
Me too. His story is the biggest slap in the face on our history. Just a bum NAB
I'm just grateful that these women survived though. Nicole Simpson died.
I understand black men's preferences in marriage can change as they progress professionally, for whatever their reasons. It is their choice. But, I don't understand them not crediting the black wives who contributed to their success. The black wives gave much support and encouragement to these men when they needed it the most. Only to be replaced with white women whom these men married as prestigious trophies.
@@ruthienelson3682 Time for the black wives to give support to other non-black males
@ yes but I can’t stand that they disparage BW as an excuse to be with other women. They do that because they know their actions are seen as treasonous. Just go and be with whomever you want, you don’t need a scapegoat to date Becky and ‘nem
I've always felt some kind of way about sydney, portier and harry bellafonte. This is why.
They left out Sammy Davis Jr 😊
They left out Quincy Jones 😊
@@robinprescod ,Sammy Davia,Jr.`s last wife was black,so 2 of his 3 wives were black.
They left out Jamie Foxx😑
Kobe Bryant
I was today years old when I found out that Sidney Poitier had 4 children with his black wife! They constantly show him with the daughter he had with his Caucasian wife. Wow. Smh
Im just learning too. Didn’t know he was married before
Same
Which daughter is that because I've only seen him with Shari?
I read his book and was aware of his first wife and his affair with Dianne Carroll.
@@terriw919fyi
In this same book did he reveal the story about Harry telling him that he would never be more than a stagehand because he was darker skinned ?
And this is why the topic of hypergamy is becoming increasingly popular amongst bw. It's too much of a gamble being with someone that has "potential " or starting out, because once they're successful, they leave. Good commentary.
This is exactly why blk men get so mad when bw talk about hypergamy, because in the blk community THEY have been the ones to practice it.
Love it.... ladies young and old.... make sure you have your own...
True that!
This isn't a 'have your own' thing. This is a vet wisely thing. Make sure the man you choose views you as his dream woman and never marry a colorist wich rules out most black men. There are tons of cases of women who out earn their husbands who end up broke,broken and or dead. So, vet them rigorously and if you're incapable of doing so, don't play the game.
@@ninawestlake5005 people also mask. According to what you have said, every one of these women must not have vetted properly. Some people are clearly red flags. Others dye their flags and it isn't until dye fades that they are revealed.
I was an adult (in my 30s) by the time I found out that Frederick Douglass had a 2nd wife! The only discussions we had (during African/black history month) were about his lovely first wife! I believe many were ashamed of his second marriage and didn't disclose it to us (as youth). Or, many were like me, completely clueless about it.
Had No Clue.
I just learned about it in the last three years and my guess is, if they revealed the truth about him, he wouldn't be so revered as he is now. In my day, we were only taught about the top five: Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, MLK, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. Malcolm X and others came later.
@@bbills4186 notice how they only want you to know those important people.
Let’s Not Forget James Earl Jones & Richard Roundtree Said in Magazine Publications Vilified BW Vs Being Married To WW.
I wish our men would confront their inferiority complex and heal. We can't help we're STRONG WOMEN. We weren't given a choice.
Unapologetically me🩷
💯 Thank you! Well put.
They’re not ours. It’s time for BW to move on and leave BM behind.
Thanks for sharing! I would love to see an expose on Earl Woods ex wife also. I was shocked to find out he had a Black wife for 18 years and had 5 Black children.
What?!? 😮. Wow!
James Earl Jones stated on a TV talk show that he did not like black women. That is why I never really cared for him even though he was a good actor.
I don't care how good they are,I'm not supporting anyone that hates me
So did John Legend. It’s one thing to love who you love. It’s another to exclude a race that you are and your mother is.
I had a feeling about him. Morgan Freeman looks like one of those, too.
@@ninawestlake5005- you can find the interview with James Earl Jones here on UA-cam. He actually had his yte wife sitting right there beside him too.
Yeah I appreciate him for his art. But he didn’t have to speak ill and generalize black women. He spoke ill of his black and Native American grandmother like it wasn’t yt folks fault she was that way.
Traditionally, the accomplishments of wives, whether Black or white, have always been diminished, discounted and glossed over, although I believe Black women have had the greater burden. Marriage is tough. I have the greatest respect for Denzel Washington, Courtney B. Vance, Samuel Jackson, and others in sports and music who made it work in the long run.
did u know denzel had an affair with sanaa latham when he made a movie with her she got pregnant but had a abortion and that young girl that was passed around at diddys partys mr goodie two shoes denzel slept with her she even said he did used to like him not anymore fing hypocrite
Marlon Jackson been married to his black wife Carol Parker for 49 years and still going strong. They married when they were both 18 years of age.
Don't bragg to quick,Denzel I don't trust him at all!
@@VanessadoraHill. Regarding Denzel’s marriage, he married black, and it’s still married to a black woman. Your personal distrust…that’s you! 🤷♀️
Especially Courtney because his wife is Angela Bassett and her fame and accomplishments have somewhat eclipsed his. He is her biggest fan and never seems jealous.
the ww can have them.
and a bag of chips!
First-time listener. I found my new favorite channel. Thank you for your content.
Thank you so much!! I hope you enjoy ☺️
Didnt Fredrick Douglas bring two white women into his house whilst his first wife was alive, the two that looked down their noses at her? The same woman who worked her fingers for the bones to feed their kids whilst he glavanted round the world doing talks/ Pan Africanist stuff ?
Yup.
Thanks for sharing. We need a Part 2. What about basketball legend Michael Jordan’s first wife- Juanita?
She's Latino I think 🤔
What a great job! You did your thing on this one.
Thank you so much!
Great work. Very informative. Thank you
Leading the civil rights movement for rights to marry a snow bunny is SCANDALOUS AF!
Excellent commentary 👌 I'm glad I found you.
Sounds like the Black Wife picked up the slack of the Black mother and then paid the price when the husband decided he wanted to prove him self with a woman who didn't know his past and that he needed a woman to financially and emotionally support him in anyway he was supposed to support her. The worst form of cowardice apparently specific to black men and black women relationships. No other group in poverty has this consistently happen.
Very interesting! I never knew Sidney had a black wife. All of them were very smart. Too bad their husbands couldn’t pass that success on them and uplift the image of the black family. Since people look to celebrities. One reason why women should make their own money. ❤
WELL, do not forget about Thurgood Marshall since we are on a roll!! So sad but true. I honestly had a hard time identifying with all the aforementioned men..... because I believe that when you love, wouldn't you want to marry yourself???? This is a product of self-hatred, according to noted black psychiatrist, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing.
I lost respect for Sidney P…..he played Diahnn Carrol
"Douglass' Women," written by Jewel Parker Rhodes, is a splendid read, and details some of the things highlighted in this video. It is historical fiction, but it's accurately researched and written from the passionate perspective of Anna Douglass.
“I’ll tell you what “ , great info. Thank you 😊
I think they’re all disgusting! Each of their wives contributed immeasurably to the success of her husband’s career, while making a home for them & raising their children.
Ohviously they didn't appreciate it.
Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Jordan, Kevin Hart. But it's harder to look back and see their black wives than it is to see who they generally gravitate to like James Earl Jones, Michael eric Dyson and Cornel West.
Dyson is married to a black woman
Sammy Davis Jr. had white women before he married his Black wife they were married for 20 years until his passing.
@@lamontbradford4630 He was forced to marry her.
Kevin Hart? I thought his second wife is black or half black.
Sammy Davis went back to black after parading around with white women for years and he STAYED married to his black wife, he knew exactly what he was doing.
I have lost respect for most of them at this point. smh (No one can touch Malcolm X to this day).
This comment may be deleted after careful review of Malcolm. He wasn’t any better.
@@JO-fk5ho sad, I had no idea.
The difference is Malcolm x woke up from his self hate thanks to becoming a Muslim. And he married Betty shabazz a great black woman.
Thank you for putting the accuracy of their lives front and center. Most Excellent.
An Henry Louis Gates, who is a Professor of Black History at Harvard, has only been married to his white wife
What, I had no idea.
That's why that beer summit at the Whitehouse was so pointless to me.
@@Butterfly-sp4hr Cornell west too
He acts white to me.😊
Don’t forget Cornel West. All his wives have been non black.
The quintessential placeholder or in-the-meantime life strategy. Why do people behave this way, and not just blacks?
If you know you really don't want someone romantically, just leave. But...this game still continues today because people want their cake, and they want to eat it too. They don't care at all how they might destroy you.
Will we ever evolve in this area as humans?🤔
They are opportunists,
Excellent!! Thank you!
Par excellence. First time viewer, Subscribed. Enjoyed your commentary and presentation style very much. Aisle be watching. 🎉
Thank you! You are now an aisle runner ☺️
You could have added another 'Juanita'; Sugar Ray Leonard's 1st wife. He later married a white woman.
No. He married a creole.
Very educational, thank you mam.
Do a story on Bryon Donald and Tim Scott. I think you'll find s pattern......
@healthyprosperityhappiness Tim Scott has never been married though. And even this marriage looks questionable.
Well done.
Wow...... just wow.
Don't forget michael Jordan
@misty28882,and Kareem Abdul Jabbar`s first wife was black.
Thank you for lifting these Sistahs…we speak their names.❤
Forgot Brian McKnight and Wanye Morri, Kevin Heart list so long...
Thank you for the great video and preparation it took, it’s extremely informative. I hope we learn to only give from what overflows from our full cups. Lesson for all of us, only give what you do not need for yourself…give what is excess and will not be missed or regretted if not reciprocated.
❤🎉❤🎉❤ ALL THAT ^^^ Right There!!! 😊
@@MJoale Very wise words, thank you.
Yep, still like Clarence the least & Frederick Douglass, just da#*, all I ever even heard about was Adrienne, his wyt wife, they make me SICK!!!
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Thank you!
Then they left them for white women.
Like Katt Williams said, the industry will give you a wife, it's in the contract.... smdh
I like the music.😊
Just because their reasons were complex, doesn't make it right.... But what these women did wrong was that they were too sacrificial. Women, if they have good parents with good marriages, should listen to their parent's opinions and deeply consider what they say about their possible future spouses, that would've saved them alot of suffering.
This is vicious cycle that just keep repeating itself, but people wonder why black women don't want to help build a man...
Not people, BM and pick me BW. Other races commend the BW who put their foot in BM azzez and refuse to be their help mules.
Guess who’s coming to dinner 😂😂😂😅
I remember a UA-camr commeting how great it was that OJ wive NEVER lied on him. "Kudos to that sista" the youtuber said. They love celebrating that type of stuff.
Sammy Davis, Jr
The responsibility of uplifting the world is often on black women’s back, while we simultaneously accomplish things at a rapidly successful rate. Yet, the men of our same race have often taken us for granted and that’s a light explanation. With that being said, this is why hypergamy dating is on the rise for bw. Also, we gotta stop riding for these men and their potential. Go where you are respected and celebrated! *YOU DESERVE BETTER BW* 💯
Wow! Who knew?!?
This is the marriage go round of life !!!! Choices
Douglass stated. "This proves I am impartial. My first wife was the color of my mother and the second, the color of my father." His justification I imagine.
😮😅😮
@@createyourworld365 People talk their way out of any accountability, in any era. Amazing lol.
You are right
MAaguerite earned a pHD! I never knew that
The more I studied Harry's life, his activism was amazing, his affair was deplorable. Harry and Marguerite were not compatible because she wasn't into being an activist wife.
OJ and Clarence Thomas have removed themselves from the Black community, Harry and Frederick Douglas dedicated their lives to helping oppressed Black people globally.
Yeah and married to the same people that got them lynch and etc. Defeats the purpose. That is why Black Men aren’t taken seriously
Harry also told Eartha Kitt, a Black woman who was also an activist that a Black woman couldn't do anything for him after screwing her. The math isn't mathing.
The problem I had with Harry was that despite his activism, he was a major hypocrite who criticized other black people. He turned his back on black women, just like too many other successful black men.
im 61 a dark woman and i married a white guy back in 80s my mum especially my mother used to say to me an my sisters marry your own kind i did not understand what she meant i use to have crushes on michael jackson when he was black ha ha an wesley snipes in 90s but i thought i was all that til my marriage broke up in 90s my now adult kids son an daughter dont like me love their father well thats were they come from his loins i cant see the grandkids my 2 adult kids are terrible to me my daughter swears curses me out me an her do not have a mum daughter relationship ive helped her so much til last yr 2024 ive broken from her now i can see what my mum means they have different outlooks needs wants so ppls dont be a fool like me im stayin single til i hit the grave
Don't worry sis,they will get their biracial called.Her teeth would have been slapped out cussing at me!?
And these black men are not to intermarry with other nations of women as the true Israelites - Ezra 10, Deutetonomy 7:3, Tobit 4:12 KJV.
OJ lied like Father Abraham lied on his wife Sarah...
Add Smokey Robinson
For what?
I believe his wife is black.
All I hear and see from these mini bios is that All these Men were straight Users! of Amazingly Intelligent Hard working, loyalty to the most highest! Great Wives and Mothers and undeserving of low down husbands.
l thought Anna Murray, Frederic Douglass' first wife, had died before he remarried. As far as Sidney Poitier, while l don't appreciate how he mistreated his first wife, the real love of his life was Dianne Carroll, despite marrying his second wife. Please read Poitier's book, "This Life"... quite an eye opener into he and Dianne's love story.
Yup! They both married yt partners that they didn’t love that much. Wonder why they couldn’t love each other out loud.
It reminds me of Tyler Perry as well how he treated his baby mama. After he made his money he bounced. She wasn’t good enough to be married.
Or maybe he didn't need a beard any longer.
Tyler Perry is 🌈, allegedly. 😔
TP is never going to marry a woman.
I think Tyler's case is a bit different 😅
@@fergieferg9192say it again for the folks in the back!
Ray Charles can see what’s going on!!!!! 😂
In his defense, if you dig into the SOCIAL lives of a few of the men listed as well as some folks are recommending in the comments…it’s a lot of Tyler Perry’s in here…..
Well Damg Clarence did a whole 180° 😂😂😂
Lionel Ritchie…Nat King Cole?
This is so annoying. They just took the black women for granted. The black women had to give them everything, but the white women didn't have to give much at all.
I've always admired Sidney as an actor, but I was surprised to learn he married a white woman based on the roles he played and what I heard about him as a black man.
This makes no sense, these men would be the person they are even if their black wives wasn't in their life
How
@@aisletell Oj simpson would still be a famous footballer with or without his black wife, or you implying that's not the case?
Frederick Douglass would have died a slave on that plantation if Anna didn't help him. Harry, Sidney and Clarence wives literally financially supported them, putting them through acting school and university. Imagine how OJ Simpsons life would have been if he had stayed married to Margurite, who himself said was a great wife who didn't want to be famous. He wouldn't have become a murderer and the most disgraced athlete in history. In the book "Raging Heart" which is about OJ and Nicoles marriage. OJs longtime maid said Margurite was always respectful and kind and she rarely saw OJ and her argue. But in his marriage to Nicole, they argued constantly and said Nicole would refer to OJs family as the N word and say she didn't want his kids visiting them. OJ was a fool.
What about Diana Ross,Diahann Carroll, Tina Turner, Whoopi Goldberg, Lynn Whitfield, Vanessa Williams, Lena Horne, Garcelle Beauvais, Tika Sumpter, Alfre Woodard, Ella Fitzgerald etc…………………
Smart women whom ;being in the business with many powerful bk men realised early on that blk men werent about community values or building resources.Diana Ross for example dated a few blk musicians/producers and was treated like trash. Thats like 0.01% of bw most bw are loyal and long-suffering .
@lab5896 this is about gas-lighting black men do not care how famous the black and women of color are.
@@lab5896 which one left their black husband while they were not wealthy for a yt man when they became wealthy?
That's cause they couldn't get a black husband because the famous wealthy black men all wanted white wives. Further more, they didn't leave anyone who helped them move up. And for Tina, if I'd gone through what she went through with that black man, I'd never look at another black man. An by the way, she didn't marry again until she became an old woman.
Tina I give props to. She went through years of abuse with Ike and raised his children. Her husband who was with her until the end, helped to revamp her career, stood by her through thick and thin and loved her when she was down before her career too off again. That true love, which she deserved particularly after all she went through. As for the others SMH especially Diana Ross who had a hair transplant to look more European. Vanessa Williams, she had dated and was married to black men in the past and has her children with them, she has so happened to find love with a white man, so happy for her. The rest went with white men to further themselves, sad really.
Frederick Douglas??
The White Women.
After his Black wife died, Frederick Douglass married a White woman.
Harry’s 2nd wife was Latin
She was a Jewish white woman. Eartha said they tried to pass her for an indigenous woman.
So like she said, "white".
@@tiffanysmith2407 Latin is not white. I’m light but not white.
Frederick Douglas loved his BLACK WIFE dearly and was heartbroken when she died, that's when he married his white wife (not immediately) who was his assistant. don't lump him with the rest to fit your narrative.
Really, he loved her so much to cheat.
Frederick Douglas lived with his Black wife (Anna) but the white woman (Helen) whom he would later marry wanted him so much that she and her Uncle lived in the house next to his in Rochester, so she had holes cut into BOTH houses so that a passageway could be placed between them. This way, she could intrude on the Douglases any time she wished. Helen’s family was Douglas’ benefactor, and as such, neither Frederick nor Anna could say no to her. Anna became sick with depression (I wonder why?) and Helen “nursed” her, but after some time Anna died anyway. Then, Helen married him. Coincidence? I think not…
No, Fredrick was in a relationship with the yt woman in their home while his wife was ill at that. Yes, of course he married her after the wife died because it was illegal to have two wives.
@@cocolyndon4604: Also at that time, adultery was a civil offense. That didn’t seem to stop either one of them, Fred or his rich white woman. Truly disgusting.
He showed his love to Anna by bringing 3 of his white mistresses into their home and made Anna serve them. He practically wrote 2 sentences about Anna in his autobiography and was lying to Anna telling her he wrote all about her, knowing she couldn't read to check. Anna even funded his studies and his newspaper. Let's also not forget his 25-year affair with Ottile Assing, who thought he would marry her after Anna died but he instead married Helen. Ottie killed herself because of that. His children HATED him so much for how he treated their mother Anna and wrote her out of his story that they wrote a biography for her called "My Mother as I Knew her." They said she was as involved as Frederick in the underground railroad and should not be forgotten. He also was against black women having the right to vote and called Sojourner Truth uncultured.
0:43 white women
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I am literally today old finding out Frederick was married to white woman. Unbelievable. Disappointing. Shame on his legacy. I will no longer admire. *I will add that I am not against interracial relationships, it just that this one and those like them hits differently
Connie Parrot, you say?
Malcolm X, the only real one.
"He knew deep down he was never good enough for her" hardly a way to round up the great legacy that Harry Belafonte left to the world especially for African Americans.
What great legacy did he leave to us.
@@cocolyndon4604 I stated my opinion and you can do the research or not...
Marry who you love
Never marry the people who oppress you though.
That includes BM@@brimontXP
Chicken or pork that's definitely going against food safety. That's a lot of food to take home and refrigerate. The cutting tool should have been taken home along with the meat and if they don't serve pork why order it. That place need a total inspection from the Health Department. I wonder what they're pass scores has been😮
Meh. Black women tend to be about struggle love. When you marry down don't be surprised if you end up getting dumped, regardless of what race of man you marry.
Marry up but have your own life together before you even think about marriage and don't even consider having a child before you're married.
Didn't you say that Sidney Poitier have an affair with a black actress before marrying a white woman? I heard that their affair lasted decades. I feel bad for the black wives who got cheated on and pushed aside, for sure. No woman deserves that. But I also feel some racism behind your statement that these black men married "white women" because it implies that only white women broke up their marriages with black women and their own children. Who knows? Maybe the other black men also had affairs with black women. Why make this topic a divisive racial issue?
Because we constantly see this pattern over and over again of black men marrying white women when they gain fame and fortune. Let's say they have a black mistress, why don't they marry her then? It's always the white mistress that he goes on to leave the black wife for. I also hate when we discuss this topic and people fiend dumb like it isn't a thing. Hell I saw a list of African kings/presidents after their countries got independence from their colonizers and nearly all of them married white women. They made a whole movie about Botswana's king Seretse Khama quest to marry a white woman while his people suffered in poverty. Senegal just got their first ever black first lady because all the ones that came before her were white women. But as per usual when black women call this out, we get gaslighted or blamed. It is racial because it basically shows that white is seen as superior, a trophy and benchmark of success. I hope black women see this pattern and act accordingly. Stop investing in men who only use us to help elevate them, then abandon us for women they see as superior because of their skin.
Can you do a story of a few of the famous black female celebrity entertainers who divorced their black husbands to date or marry a white guy because they felt that it would help them boost their social status?
It's definitely only a few compared to the many BM. However, I suspect you know that.
@dexkato7329,A few from a generation older than i am and that i read about come to mind.Pearl Bailey,Lena Horne,Dianne Carroll and Tina Turner.All of their last husbands were white men.Their social status were booster before these last marriages which in its self is interesting
@@auntiemeemaw3885or maybe he don’t
Who’s done that?
Name one
Harry Belafonte didn't marry the white women til later in life -
This is very common place and required for any black man to advance in society whether it be sports, acting or politics! There is a very long list of men who choose that route! Today we have welfare to dismantle the black family, back then we had the wt woman!
how is welfare dismantling the blk family what they get is peanuts? ,if a working blk man has no plan b when theres job loss or separation its due to lack of education or inability to think outside of the box .Poverty and scarcity mindset is not just a blk issue neither
Welfare was created for yt people, black people could not even get it and today, as it has always been, yts are the largest demographics of people who use welfare. Stop believing the stereotypes and do some research, you don't have to dig deep either.
Wrong Samuel L Jackson and Denzel Washington are the most highly paid accomplished actors in Hollywood and they didn't need to have a non b w or leave their dark skinned blk wives to do it.
These men became famous and accomplished while with their black wives. The white women only wanted them after they had money. Something I notice is their careers actually don't get better. Like after Harry and Sidney married their white wives' what movies did they get? It's like their career accession actually stopped. OJ was already in his 30s and was a huge star when he met a teenage Nicole. His life and career didn't get better once they married it actually got worst (I read the book Raging Heart about their marriage, Nicole destroyed that man's life before he killed her.) I literally cannot think of any black man who got with a white woman and his life improved. Kanye was respected and huge before he got with Kim, look what happened to him after marrying her. White people receive the most welfare and their families are still intact, stop this lie that welfare took the black man out of the home. He didn't own the home and didn't want to be in it.
I take it with a grain of salt when a black woman makes a vlog on this particular subject , However in keeping with the narrative these rather unfortunate women would have better off marrying " ordinary " men instead of these men who became " celebrities " .
🙄 they were ordinary men when they got married.
This is totally disingenuous
It sounds like you are in major denial and can't handle the truth about black men who covet white women once they become successful. The list is way too long...
They were ordinary until they got their come up.
These men were ordinary, I would even say, far beneath the black women they married. It was the black women helping them attain their fortune and fame. But as always, true to their nature and with the blood of Cain in them, they all used, betrayed and abandoned their black wives just to have a white woman on their arms. The black man is Cain.
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Really? The truth is true no matter who tells it. Douglass wasn't a god, just a fallible man who also did some good things -- like most people. Give him flowers, if you must, but please remember all roses have thornes.
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2 things can be true at the sane time
@jujubee2761 ......you can't reason , with a " sheeple " mentality , it's just not going to happen..............
Read his entire biography. He literally dogged his first Black wife, who helped him escape slavery. He was so flagrant with his worship of WW, he moved them into his home with his Black wife. Some of his own children shunned him because of the way he treated their mother.
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Generally, this is a very informed, accurate history. But there are three points of serious historical and moral error in this otherwise illuminating, detailed, and troubling (in a good way) exploration.
The first involves the implied moral equivalencies between Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Fredrick Douglass, on the one hand, and the likes of O.J. Simpson and Clarence Thomas on the other hand.
But in fact, however very problematic as husbands Belafonte, Poitier were, both were artists and activists who bequeathed artistic, cultural, and political legacies of enormous moral, creative, and cultural power on a world-scale. BY CONTRAST, both O.J. Simpson and Clarence Thomas have left entirely and literally corrupted legacies in their chosen fields, acting and jurisprudence: Simpson performed, if that is the word, largely updated versions of minstrelsy via his one-dimensional stereotype Black roles and Thomas has almost literally prostituted himself before American Fascists and oligarchs at the expense of American democracy in general and Black people in particular.
SECOND, while Belafonte, Poitier, and Douglass were philanderers -- as were Franklin Roosevelt, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Jr., the late Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison, and any number of other political and artistic leading men of the movement to expand democracy -- Belafonte, Poitier, and Douglass were NOT EVER the serial partner beaters/abusers as was Simpson to both of his wives ( for which he consistently received a free-pass from the White police and the White-dominated courts).
The DNA evidence alone convicts Simpson of the murders he committed. But he had a long, ugly prior history of physical and psychological violence against his women, prior to his ultimate crimes, a history that both his wealth and DENIAL of and DISTANCING from those Black communities (plural) of less privilege and wealth than the "talented tenth" and his wealthy Black peers would afford him.
THIRD, Clarence Thomas is an especially egregious figure, since he commands the most institutional power of all the aforementioned powerful, wealthy Black men. It is over this figure, Clarence Thomas, that the historian/host makes the most egregious of factual errors, and I will list them thus;
a). Clarence Thomas was NEVER, EVER a "Liberal," Democrat or otherwise, in his college days. IN FACT, he was a stridently racialist SEPARATIST: an anti-integrationist, Black nationalist who fancied himself as something of a Marcus Garvey follower (although he was far closer in idéology and Fascist power admiration to the violently, sadistically misogynoirist Eldridge Cleaver)
b). Clarence Thomas was notorious for harassing and threatening Black women-White men (bwwm) couples on campus, holding to the racist, misogynoirist view that Black women-White men couples (a) "betrayed" the rightful, exclusivist sexual domination of Black women by Black men and (b) that children of Black women-White men marriages/families "contaminated" the Black race -- an argument strikingly similar to White supremacist, Right-wing, Fascist ideation about the "need" to maintain the (entirely fictional) "purity" of the White "race" (Black nationalist ideology consistently mirrors, reflects, and echos White racist/nationalist themes, manias, and wholly invented racial myths of "superiority," a telling, damning irony that conveys a crypto-White fetishism among so-called Black "nationalists")
c). Clarence Thomas's rank, rancid, and racist hypocrisy regarding his abject desire to forbid Black women/White men unions -- upon the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, he opined in his consent that SCOTUS should use the "logic" of the overthrow to "revisit" and thus likewise overturn both Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell v. Hodges, thus enabling Red States (and Red districts in Blue States) to render interracial and Gay marriage illegal once again.
It does NOT and should NEVER escape any historian's discernment that Loving v. Virginia rendered interracial marriage legal throughout the land based on the case brought by the bwwm married couple, the Lovings, a fact that galls Thomas to such depths that he makes clear his racialist animus via his consenting ruling to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, a document, HIS official SCOTUS document of immense legal, state power -- and a conscious, loathsome invitation/ blueprint for the racist Right-wing/GOP to pursue the overturn of both Loving v. Virginia and Obergefol v. Hodges, which they WILL.
The appalling racist inhumanity of Thomas is as staggering as his execrable patriarchal hypocrisy, given that he reserves for HIMSELF (and by extension other Black men) the sole "right" (i.e., privilege) to marry a White woman while using HIS institutional power of the federal state to limit Black women's (and Gay people's) choices to love and live their best lives.
Overall, this UA-cam piece on the Black wives of very powerful, wealthy, and influential Black men both informs and raises disturbing questions that covers ALL men of power from ALL communities, regarding said men's public aspirations for expanding democracy versus said powerful men's actual practice of patriarchal privilege, sexual dictatorship, and betrayal of the women in said men's private, intimate lives.
But however problematic a Douglass or Belafonte -- or a Roosevelt, Kennedy, or late Beatle, for that matter -- was in their treatment of their first wives, NEITHER a Douglass NOR a Belafonte was ever the monstrous abuser that Simpson was -- and no Douglass, Belafonte, or Poitier ever had the institutional power of state that Clarence Thomas has, a power that Thomas so sadistically, viciously, obscenely, and corruptly wields for the benefit of the of the sadistically, viciously, obscenely, corruptly privileged, wealthy few at the literal expense of everybody else.
They still suck. Better in many ways, but still suck.
That DNA was planted & OJ was found innocent as well as Trump😂
@@MAAT1111 : Arch ironies aside, it is an irrefutable fact that OJ and Donald J. Serial Rapist are to "innocence" as the Kardasians are to the Shomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture (NYC academic centre of high intellectual production and culture) : complete alien, off-planet extraterrestrials with malign, hostile designs.
CASES IN POINT: lest you have "forgotten," successive juries have found Donald J. Serial Rapist (a) liable for rape and slander therein (b) liable to the State and city of New York for defrauding same said of five hundred million dollars (c) GUILTY on all thirty-four felony counts of fraud and election interference and obstruction (d) liable for defrauding contributors to his "charity" foundation and banned for the entirety of his life and that of his family from ever again running any "charity" foundation in the State of New York.
Given the enormity of evidence amassed against Donald J Serial Rapist for his conspiracies to (a) overthrow the results of duly fair state and national presidential elections (b) to incite a Hitlerian Beer Hall Putsch-on-the-Potomac, which (c) were the "United" States indeed a république under the Rule of Law instead of the Regime under the Law of Oligarchal and Racist rulers that it is, juries would have had the opportunity to review and surely would have convicted him of those aforementioned high crimes and misdemeanors IN ADDITION to those for which separate juries have ALREADY CONVICTED and/or held him liable.
To claim so ludicrously that juries have found Donald J. Serial Rapist "not guilty" in his lifelong crime spree is to beg the placement of laughing, mocking emojis in response.
As for OJ Simpson: his wealth and fame enabled him to skate almost entirely free of legal consequence for his decades -- decades--of extreme spousal abuse, and the "framing" gambit you float here has zéro credibility in that the institutionally racist LA police department and judicial system had, for decades, nonetheless given a free pass to Simpson's well-reported, court-documented domestic violence precisely because (a) Simpson had the wealth to pay for various "dream teams" (the execrable Kardashian family's initial wealth derives entirely from the late family patriarch, Robert Kardashian,Esq., a well-connected LA attorney of the rich and famous who was one of OJ Simpson's myriad "dream team" attorneys) and (c) the largely Black working-class women of OJ's murder trial jury took revenge on the historically racist White judicial system in general and White Karens and Beckies in particular by engaging in "Jury Nullification," i.e., giving a free pass to Simpson as a rebuke to hundreds of years of White racism and White women privilege.
I merely state the irrefutable, damning facts. You post emojis. We'll leave it that.
How would Clarence Thomas make interracial marriage illegal for Black Women but not Black Men?
@@rejectionisprotection4448 : To state the obvious: rendering to the states to make illegal interracial marriage would leave Clarence Thomas's marriage with a White woman legal in WA DC and, due to his institutional power and unbroken history of doing White racist, Right-wing and oligarchal bidding -- LITERALLY -- his interracial marriage would suffer little or no consequences even were he to visit and/or relocating in the South. His wealth, his high office, his own racist Black "nationalist" ideals --dovetailing perfectly with the racist separatism doctrine of White "nationalism" --and his decades of using his institutional power for upholding White racist, classist hierarchies would according dispensation (in caste/racial hierarchies, there are ALWAYS "exceptions").
Black men, targeted for extreme violence over the centuries over "miscegenation" strictures, nonetheless have carved out and retained odd, paradoxical powers that contradict racial caste but accord perfectly with PATRIARCHAL privilege, which would provide them protection for existing interracial marriages that Black women would not have, such as (a) White racist society considers and defines many White women in bmww marriages as less "desirable" in terms of class, sexual attractiveness, and social mobility, and thus as less or non-threatening to the social order (b) Black men have, with a high level of perhaps less-than-conscious collusion of strata of Black women, embraced and adapted White racist notions of beauty and hierarchy via colourism, texturism, featurism, according White women (and racially ambiguous Black women) within Black communities higher status. Additionally, Black men with the collusion of socially influential Black women have made until very recently Black women-White men (and other "outside-community") intimate relationships and marriages taboo, providing (c) community sanctuary for bmww marriages that do NOT exist in any similar, parallel degree for Black women.
Clarence Thomas has wealth, the highest institutional power short of the presidency, and favour among the most powerful arbiters of White racist/classist rule in the "United' States. He knows this. Thus, he feels free and empowered to advocate and provide the legal blueprint/map (his written concurrence with the overturn of Roe v. Wade) for the overturn of both Loving v. Virginia and Obergefell, which he made absolutely clear in said concurrence.
Further, Thomas, as an unreconstructed Black nationalist patriarchalist (with a notorious, infamous history of sexual harassment against his peer highly educated professional Black women under his direct patronage ) KNOWS full well both the (a) dispensations White racist power-structures and communities will accord any number of Black men with White wives, overriding the return of anti-miscegenation laws and (b) Thomas KNOWS full well the social taboo Black women of modest means face against their entering interracial marriages in general and bwwm marriages above all, social strictures enforced via targeted ostracism to outright violence.
All of this makes Clarence Thomas worse than an odious hypocrite, a misogynoirist, and a racist ally of White supremacist. It makes him evil by the consciousness of his sadism and the power he freely uses in corrupting democracy in matters of state and personal lives.