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As with almost everything, it depends on how you were raised. If he grew up in a home where womanhood as it pertains to sexual pleasure wasn't discussed or was looked down upon for whatever reason, a black man may turn his nose up at oral. It is not ingrained in the race not to perform oral sex on a woman, or universally verboten, as some people (mostly lazy and or intimidated men) claim. We aren't taught about women's bodies by people who should know better (their owners themselves), and many of us grow up believing that women are naturally unclean because of various reproductive myths and half-truths that come from clinical ignorance borne of shame or the idea of 'being proper' (whether religion-based or not). No one goes there with us verbally, so we don't go there physically. But frankly, a lot more black men perform oral than will admit it to anyone other than the woman whose knees he's between. If you'd ever made love with a black man, you probably wouldn't ask the question. Notice I said 'made love' - few men, black or otherwise, will go down on a woman they don't love.

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I have only thought of interracial (video) porn as being racist when its marketing (most noticeably on web sites and video boxes) directly implicates the black male performers as ravagers of 'little white girls.' Such ad copy has an undeniably racist connotation, invoking still-potent Reconstruction-era stereotypes about the black man being a savage beast who lives only to brutalize 'innocent' white womanhood. Both the idea of the black man as a sexual brute and the white woman as sexually pure by nature are the oldest racist notions used to render blacks animalistic and whites morally and mentally superior, but these notions are also tools for cultivating the interracial porn viewing audience. I think of it more as 'using' racism than practicing it, if that makes any sense.

A longtime porn viewer may get bored watching the same type of people perform, and eventually venture into different genres, but to grab the attention of a person who may not be inclined to watch people who don't all look like him having sex (and may even be vehemently opposed to it in 'real life') you have to use something that everyone knows (besides the bodacious body parts), if not understands, when they see it. I think the majority of interracial porn is produced for white viewers in general who are curious about what blacks' bodies look like, and white men specifically who fantasize about catching, preventing, watching or being(!) black men raping white women (whether the viewers or performers would use that terminology or not).

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[Randy]

The quasi-violent terminology of the ad copy helps foster the idea that there is a bit of suffering to be had by white female performers (remember, the black male is little more than a well-hung beast to the porn marketer), and 'rightfully so,' as a white woman who willingly has sex with a black man can be perceived as a transgressor of the (once-written) rules of race relations--even as that transgression attracts a fantasizing audience. There doesn't seem to be an element of pity or a manipulation of interracial fear when the males are white and the women are black--the guys are just blessed to be having 'really hot sex'--they are not simultaneously 'paying for it' as their female counterparts are. Strangely, the videos I have watched don't extend this 'use of racism' into the proceedings. In my viewing experience (limited by budget and other pasttimes), there doesn't seem to be a racist demeanor in the sexual encounters as filmed. (Admittedly I might be missing something.) I don't know anything about porn before the '90s. I would assume it was more openly racist in the past like a lot of entertainment, especially behind the scenes.

(Ironically, while racism can be used to directly market porn, one can ignore it and literally use his own form of...discrimination. I find myself watching interracial porn more than any other genre for two reasons: Some of it is better produced than a lot of all-black porn, and as far as 'all-white' videos... well, I don't find white men's bodies [OK, the knick-knacks] aesthetically pleasing--to say the least--so anything I watch has to have a brother in it!)

A little more off the subject: Although I'm not Latin, I cringe any time I see a Latina performer called 'spicy' or her body parts referred to as some Mexican food item...now that's racist.

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[Randy]

The only significance to where I put my Afro pick is that it's my personal preference. Where better to put it than in my hair? I'm gonna use it again! Carrying it in my front pocket is rather uncomfortable. Carrying it in the back is not only impractical but sort of silly lookin'. Should I keep it in my shirt pocket with a plastic protector? Leave it at home? I can't do that, because then you'd be asking, 'Why do I see so many black men with uncombed Afros?'

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It is very possible for your child to be darker than your fiancée, maybe almost the same complexion as her maternal grandfather. But a lot is riding on you, too. Are you light-skinned, blond, a redhead? My half-sister is biracial. Her husband is white (Irish/Italian). Their son is as dark as our two-black-parent mother with curly hair, while her daughters are fairer skinned with straight hair. Racial features can skip kids, and a biracial person's color can, of course, be supplemented by their sun exposure. Don't let yourself be fooled come June. The color your child is at birth may not be anything like what it will be as an adolescent. In fact, it sometimes goes "light at birth/dark for life (or vice versa)." Congratulations and good luck.

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[Randy]

It's 'easier' for black men to have interracial relationships because as men, we generally do the pursuing, at all costs. I don't think a white man attracted to a black woman would consider that she could be interested in him unless she approached him first. The legacy of black womanhood intimidates white men. Guilt or apprehension about African slavery, the present-day racism of others and cultural fear probably discourages white men who want to get to know black women romantically from doing so. To be in a long-term relationship, a white man will eventually have to deal with black men—fathers, brothers, friends, etc. A white man may not want to deal with all that, especially if he is not comfortable with blacks to begin with. Being attracted to a woman of another race doesn't mean it's easy for you to commune with the men of that race.

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[Randy]

Surfing isn't as popular among blacks as it is among whites because of access. Not as many blacks live so close to a beach that daily surfing is advantageous. You have to surf every day to be any good, or keep at it if you're not. There are more baseball diamonds and more blacktop where we live—even if we live on Pacific coasts—and more people nudging us toward them.

Surfing seems to be a very nepotistic pastime and sport. Most people I know who surf learned from a parent or sibling who knows the ocean and how to take care of a board. None of the blacks I know who surf learned within their family; they had white friends to inspire them. The people who consider it a 'white boy sport' cause indifferent blacks to reject it, so there is a cycle of non-participation. There are surfing classes, but no one's going to sign up if he's been 'brainwashed' into thinking the sport is not for his race. Kids of all races boogie board and body surf out here, but which kids are going to be 'allowed' (by parents, peers or whomever) to continue into adulthood and possibly take whatever skill they may have to another level?

Surfing can become a way of life, almost religious to those who become good (and not so good) at it - but not to a person who doesn't grow up in a culture that glorifies it.

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