(Part 2 of my explosive interview with author Rajen Persaud)

Lorrie Irby Jackson: Some folks say that who (Tiger is) attracted to is because his mother wasn’t black.

RAJEN PERSAUD Rajen Persaud: But a black man is a black man, period. When you’re out there in this life, whether or not your mother is black, your journey is that of a black man. If that’s a valid argument, why didn’t Tiger marry or date Asians, since his mother is Asian? Every woman he cheated with is a white woman. He’s repulsed by black women—he’s got the malady so bad that black women aren’t even good enough to have sex with. No men, black or white, has been impressed with his choices (of women). He just needed them in his system, he may not have even liked them. What’s a vaccine? It has the virus itself inside. He’s got to constantly got to be vaccinated for his lust of white women. Its’ like schizophrenia and paranoia— hate and self-hate are maladies that has never been given a proper diagnosis.

LIJ: Some black men say that the rich businessmen, athletes and entertainers who end up with non-blacks simply don’t find a lot of black women where they happen to be, so they happen to meet, date, and marry more whites. Would you say that’s true?

RP: I would say to them, “In order to be in love, you first have to have that attraction. Your entire cosmetic aesthetic has been determined for you by your slave masters.” So all of the media hype about white women has been so ingrained into them and the ignorant, fat booty black ghetto chick that has been thrown at him since the invention of American media, coupled with self-hate, will determine who he’s attracted to. So these decisions are not conscious decisions, he doesn’t know why he dislikes black women no more than he knows why he likes white women. These black athletes are partying with Jay-Z, Chris Brown….these guys are hanging out in the same clubs that P. Diddy is in, the same clubs your husband was hanging out in his younger years. There may be corporate parties for the sponsors, but there are lots of black women everywhere they go. And this is a legitimate problem for the sisters, because with over 1 million black men behind bars, how are the women who prefer brothers expected to marry? I understand their concerns and that’s what I set out in my book to address.

LIJ: In your opinion, Mr. Persaud, how do we get the next generation of kids on the right track?

RP: First of all, we as a people have got to stop thinking about hair color, texture—-they’re little kids who will become stigmatized and grow up perpetuating this sick cycle. Be thankful that your children are healthy and can function in this world! If you don’t regularly discuss the toes, their fingers or how their ears look, don’t discuss the skin color. It ain’t about skin….it’s about the value of who they are and who they came from. We need to give them as much information as possible about who they are, and get them to understand that there’s pride in being black. Believing stereotypes about any other race doesn’t make them any better. They are the founding mothers and fathers of the universe and most importantly, black women should understand that it’s called Mother Africa, not Baby Mama Africa: we cannot continue to allow the children of Mother Africa to run around creating more children who are disconnected and fatherless. It’s really part of self-worth and self-hate, seeking values in things that are expensive and don’t matter: getting diamond earrings instead of an education. Black people are destroying each other. Some of these black guys are telling these women ‘I don’t wear a condom,’ playing grown man’s games with kindergartner’s pockets and getting away with murder. Kids should get a glimpse of the life that real black men have to live, struggling to provide for his family and working hard from day to day. We have to offer another value system besides the one of being the hip-hop hoodrat. And if you’re a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, whoever, never let up, because even when you send your kids to college, it ain’t over. When he or she is 50, you still might have to tighten them up. You gotta constantly reinforce what you teach. But even when he or she becomes the teacher for their own children, you are now the sage who you can teach the teacher and create more teachers. So it never ends.

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