1968 THROWBACK: " JAMES EARL JONES EXPLAINS WHY HE MARRIES WHITE WOMEN"(ORIGINAL UPLOAD)

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happens at 14 should not happen first of all the man should uh should uh pursue the kind of woman that e either is in his dreams or is is in his uh you know reality or whatever um now you get to how do you mean a war well um I'm S I cut it all right let's let's cut really Jim where does the black man stand today in relation to the black woman to the White woman and why in other words do do black men marry white women because of the nature of some black women today well uh uh me sitting here she's actually not uh not Caucasian she's a she's a mongoid and she comes from the Maga uh strain right right but she passes his white now um I I'm I don't particularly care I would of course be very interested if people uh wanted to have inter inter marriages and were denied that right though now uh the so who who your question was what is the I'm going to do it again we're going to do it again you're still going up because you Jim the black black men marry white women because of the nature of black women I know in some of our earlier conversations you mentioned that black women you've met have been uptight what do you mean by that well uh I'll answer the one question what do I mean by up type going toward a more militant uh attitude about their own identity um and in in many ways are way ahead of the black man because uh um I don't know why but uh uh in many ways I replacing the black man there's a whole uh there an almost an un unfeminine aspect of the the uh the black militant woman do you find that uh some black women you've known out of your personal experience uh blame the black man for for what happened to them in slavery even today of course uh you know if if if the black man regardless of of the the causes failed to protect her left her in in in a position where she had to sell herself or bar a bargain with with her body and so on yes she she had there there's a resentment about that but um it it's very complex now you see uh I I think in in in another generation you you you you'll get a whole crop a whole generation Jim where does the black man stand today in relation to the black woman the white woman why you hear it said that some black I bet do that again I'm sorry you want come okay Jim do black men marry white women because of the nature of black women you've said in some of our earlier conversations that black women seem to be uptight uptight about what upside about their position in society uh there are uh many cuz I'm General generalizing now many are overreacting against ant Jima the ant Jima image the submissive um mother earth type uh unselfish uh all giving especially all giving to the white man sexually and uh in the kitchen every other way and uh uh she's also overreacting against the uh the problem of having to be the bread winner uh the matriarch of the house the the myth of the black matriarch is a is really a myth cuz she is not it wasn't her choice uh many many black women I'm sure once they found this job had a certain uh uh social and uh political uh dignity to it uh relished it and wheeled the rolling pen you know like any minority group mama would do uh but no matter how much she might relish it it wasn't her choice to begin with um he would always have preferred the black male to have run the house to have saved her from White rapists white slave owners you know um is the black woman po uh but I I I recognize that this this uh reaction can can exist you see ask me another question why did you marry Julian I married uh Julianne because she's Julian jul nothing to do with race at all really no not at all um uh if if if I looked at it from a social standpoint uh I I can say that uh she outshone as a person most women I met of any race thank you all right Julian why did you marry Jim but first do you know what Jim means by by the uptightness of black women you've been in the theater I've felt it I've sensed it with almost every black woman that we know uh whether they accept me or not you know whe there's always a tolerance but there's always hostility uh behind it uh I can understand it intellectually thank God I I didn't have to go through the know the process that made it occur I happen to think it's a good thing that they're showing hostility I think it's the only thing they can show at the moment and I think out of the hostility I think that's a healthy sign I think out of that