THE SEXUAL PRACTICES OF BLACK MALES AND SOCIETAL MYTHS ABOUT THEM: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AND CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS
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....Ex-college professor and diplomat Herbert L. Calhoun in his book review of White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812, states:
“Negroes as slaves were always morally problematic, and American Whites were forced to continue fashioning, revising and updating the rationalizations needed to justify their mistreatment and continued enslavement of them. The most stable result was an ideology of racial superiority that melded together the sailors' myths and attitudes about Blacks, and a self-serving rendition of White, mostly Protestant, religion. This ideological concoction was so successful that over time maltreatment of Blacks was pretty much taken as normal.” (Amazon.com)
Ayn Rand in Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979) said, racism "is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage — the notion that a man's intellectual and character-logical traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. This means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors."
Molefi Asante, one of the most published contemporary African American scholars of our generation and the man credited with coining the term, ’Afrocentric,’describes racism in his work, Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation (2003) as, a "Wall Of Ignorance" that hides the long history of racial injustice from public consciousness. He argues that most White people view racism as a thing of the past; a problem that was solved by civil rights. “Eckhardt in Prejudice: Fear, Hate, or Mythology (1968) suggest that a mythical but pervasive belief in the superiority of the White race is a primary factor in racism. One aspect of this myth is that Blacks are more primitive and animalistic than Whites, and are therefore more sexual. Several Black writers (Clever, 1968; Fanon, 1967; Hernton, 1965; Malcolm X, 1966) suggest that a common denominator of racial prejudice among Whites is the attribution of sexual potency to Blacks. Black females are thought to have near insatiable sexual appetites and Black males are thought to have an oversized penis and to be more sexually potent than White males (Fanon, 1967; McCray, 1967).
This investigative inquiry theorizes that the perceived libido, Black male sexual energy and vitality have always been a source of contention for White men. Herein, White fear of Black sexuality from ancient history to the present is approached as a discourse on White sexual insufficiency, trepidation, malfunction and underlying psychosis.
Throughout history several writers and social scientists have discussed the practical implications of the mixing of sex and racism. Hernton (1965) suggests that the sexual stereotype of Blacks may be the most important single factor maintaining racism. Dollard (1957) discusses what he calls the sexual gain of slavery and racism as being the availability of both Black and White women to White men, and Smith (1963) indicates that segregation meant ‘an empty bed and a pain in the heart for many White woman in the south.’ (Davis and Cross, 1979).
....With the ultimate goal of uncovering the many myths surrounding Black male sexuality, in this volume we examine Black racism from the earliest African interaction with the European to contemporary times. In so doing we reveal unfounded sexual propaganda, uncover sexual falsehoods; study the results of self-fulfilling prophesies and false fears; examine behavioral insecurities and their impact on both the oppressor and the oppressed; and are forced to conclude an underpinning of rampant psychological societal dysfunction....
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