Hal H. Harris
Jun 8, 2021

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This. makes me think about what I said about Chidi when writing about "The Good Place:" (https://medium.com/established-in-1865/the-problem-of-chidi-76e240b76056)

Chidi is African born, living an expatriate life, has Black friends and Black romances. He had loving and attentive parents. He had romantic partners who loved him. None of those relationships matter save as a path to Eleanor, the white woman who did for him what all of his Black relationships failed to accomplish. She cured him of indecisiveness that, because of the harm it caused others, became elevated to the level of sin.

Again--there is nothing inherently wrong with interracial relationships! But white culture tends to push them in advertising and media to make Black people more palatable.

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Hal H. Harris
Hal H. Harris

Written by Hal H. Harris

Black on Both Sides. Medium Writers Challenge Winner. The founder of Established in 1865. I Tweet @Established1865. E-mail is hal.harris@est1865.com.

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