Educating the Asian Male about Asian & Black Relationships

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So I've been catching up with what's being happening in the asian and black world both as separate and combined communities. What I've been seeing has made my head hurt. While in some areas there's been some improvement, in other areas I feel people are still stuck.  But I also discovered something else.  There's some spilling over of interest for the asian black community.  What interesting about this is it's from those who support asian/asian relationships or asian/white relationships. Could this type of interest be a good thing?



Well, for me the jury is still out on this.   I'm not even sure what the interest is about. I do think that the increased awareness has something to do with the media coverage the asian black communities have been receiving.  In movies, TV shows, print and magazine ads, music videos, etc there's been an increase of images of  black and asian couples or families. Woot!

Still I think some people are at a loss on how to "process" this information after being "taught" that black women are not dating material and they should seek out women of other races, especially *ahem* white women. Case in point...let me introduce you to icysparks2007, who I discovered on youtube. I've been meaning to make a reply video to him about the "look" of a black and asian child.  He made a comment that blasian children would have dark complexion and fuzzy hair.  Umm, yeah.  Like I said I've been meaning to address that but ya know I've been busy people!

Anywhoo, he recently posted a video sharing some of his thoughts why asian men/black women relationship are so rare. His three main points where location, education and media portrayal. Ok folks, take a deep breathe while you watch this video.



So of course I have some issue with his points. We all know my thoughts on media portrayal of black women so I'll spare you a re-rant. But seriously with the no black people in the area point. Just because he doesn't know any black people doesn't mean we're not living in all parts of the world. But the irony is that he doesn't think a lot of Asians live in other parts of the world either.

Also what is he saying that there's NO movies that show a black women/asian male couple? Did he use Google? Cause I'm sure there's a list out there. Hell I have a list of movies. Which reminds me that I need to update cause there's been a bunch more movie, tv shows, etc since I first made that list.

As for education, where is he getting that info that black women aren't in the science fields? Did he really try and reference the Black in American documentary?!

As I watched his video I started to get upset but then I had to stop myself. I should not get upset with someone who clearly has not been educated. Clearly he doesn't know the reality. The fact that he's making these videos and commentary shows his need to connect and understand.

I also think it might be a little about getting more video views and interaction. Just saying. It's interesting to me that an asian guy who supports white and asian relationships is all of a sudden interested in asian and black relationships. Also dude is on youtube, where there's tons of videos that show asian black couples and families. But still he claims not to know many. Hmmmm

But moving on with my point. I started wondering how many other asian men need educating about the reality of a asian and back relationship? I'm thinking many. I think many asian men not connected to the black community thru living in the neighborhood, having coworkers or class mates don't know where to go with their questions and interests. Now they're seeing asian/black pairing and they're trying to figure what happening and why.

But the interesting thing is none of this asian and black combination is new. It's been happening since the dawn of time and from all the blasian babies I keep seeing within my community...it's going to keep happening. So when I hear people who are not educated about this community using terms like rare, it's shows me they didn't do their research.

Before taking the position of expert who will "explain" something about a certain group of people at least make contact with the community and learn. All dude needed to do was reach out to any of the many advocates of the asian and black community. Any of us would have been glad to educate him. There's no shame in being educated about others before speaking out of turn. It's a good lesson to learn.

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