You got Jungle Fevah!

"Oh lawds! Dem der white guls done caught da jungle fevah!"

Aight, let me stop joking around...sorry, when I googled jungle fever that picture (the first one) came up and I automatically heard that sentence in my head...then I had to find a picture to match **rambling** Anywho...this blog topic has been something I wanted to write about for MONTHS...like sometime last year I came up with the idea...but I knew some of my readers were involved in interracial relationships and I didn't want to offend any of them...it's never my intent to offend...well not on here anyway. But then I said to myself...

"Epitome...just write the damn thing, you write about everything else"

And I replied...

"Epitome you shole is right."

Okay so that didn't really happen, but if my life were a movie or a sitcom (which sometimes I imagine it is) that's how it would have played out...I'm off topic again...sorry.

So...interracial dating...I used to have a serious problem with it...I take that back. I had no problem with it until my brother inadvertently knocked up a white girl...

"She's Italian and Puerto Rican" he said...no the bitch was white...her last name was Barney for goodness sakes...now my brother went to a basically white college to play ball and there the few black women that were around were on some angry black women shit according to him and the white girls were always down for a football player...saw them as their ticket out of the little town I guess, I remember him telling me how he had a couple of white girls in rotation, one would suck his dick while the other cooked him dinner...real sick shit, personally I didn't care, they were stupid girls...period. But then my brother began to talk that talk that so many black men (not all but ALOT) do when they hook up with a white woman...

"Black women all fucking angry"

"They don't wanna hold their man down"

"All black women do is argue"

The list goes on...I can remember him saying something about 'black bitches always want a man to fill in something that was a completely reasonable request here' to which I replied you say that like it's something out of the ordinary, I would want that. And he smirked and said to me...

"You a black bitch just like the rest of them"

EXCUSE ME MUTHA FUCKA?! I flipped...me and my brother who were really tight all throughout our lives kinda fell off after that...I remember telling him he was gonna end up with a black woman who wasn't gonna be some timid little wimp like the white women he was dating...and I was exactly right...and he married her.

Anyway (off topic again) I didn't have a problem with interracial dating until that happened...even still when he brought his white tramp (and I say that because she's indeed a tramp...not because she's white) I didn't let my distaste for their relationship stop me from being nice, I wobbled my 8 months pregnant ass to their house almost daily, when they didn't have power because of a storm I took her and my niece to the mall to cool off (and on the ride there she complained about how my brother (who was working 3 jobs at the time) didn't help her around the house (even though she was unemployed and not looking for a job) and always wanted a meal cooked when he finally got home)...long story short some shit transpired and they broke up and she took my niece back to her home state, that was over 6 years ago...I haven't physically seen my niece since.

So that whole fiasco left a bad taste in my mouth on interracial dating...of course I would love to see every black man I come across with a black woman but that's not realistic so fuck it **shrug** Now in my older age it's just not something that's important to me, seeing an interracial couple on the street has no bearing on me or my life so carry on.

And no, I would never date outside of my race...I can look at a man of another race and say "yeah...he's attractive" but I have never ever had my coo coo jump or flutter at the thought of one...I'm just not sexually attracted to any other race...I rides for my brothers, so no, I will not be getting my Something New on a la Sanaa Lathan