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June 11, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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🔴 Viral TikTok Trend 'Black Wife Effect' Sparks Debate on Racial Stereotypes and Misogynoir
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Over the past couple of weeks, there has been this incredible trend on TikTok indicating something I find fascinating.
I want to highlight it and point it out to you.
It's called the...
Black wife effect.
And immediately you might be saying, I've never heard of that.
Well, there's a good reason for that.
The idea is that there have been testimonials from white men who have either said this or they've been complimented for this, but their style, their panache, their elegance, that hard to say, that je ne sais quoi.
Whatever.
Has been elevated.
They've enjoyed a certain degree of glow-up by virtue of their affiliation with their black girlfriend, their black wife.
And this, of course, inspires a cacophony of reaction and people being upset, as you know, because why?
It deals with race.
And whether it's true or not, whether there's anything at all involved with it, doesn't matter.
The question is, it involves race.
And nobody can ever talk about race.
You've got to understand that.
Race is off topic, no matter what.
Now, the videos that have been posted, and I have been perusing them, show the benefits to white men who have the black woman as their style, perhaps bellwether.
You know, they're sartorial and cultural, you know, captain, so to speak.
But with that comes a lot of other problems.
The so-called misogynoir, the disdain for black women, the mammy effect.
And this really gets interesting because you would normally...
Think of this as being positive, right?
Black women adding a degree of style to some basically uncultured feller who doesn't have or possess the pizzazz and the social wherewithal and the sartorial and cultural panache and the veneer and the flat, in any event.
But you have seen This, of course, because it deals with race, causing problems.
Now, to the response of this, to the response of the black wife phenomenon, the black wife effect, is the white man-savior complex, which is a counter.
This is a number of, perhaps, black gentlemen saying, oh, no, no, no, no.
This has nothing to do with the phenomenon of black women juicing up, glowing up the affect of their white mates.
It's the fact that the white mate basically allures and pulls the black woman because he is the savior.
Economically, financially, whatever.
These aren't my ideas.
Please, do not attribute this to me.
I'm merely commenting on it because I'm fascinated by them.
Anything that deals with race, I love because it's that third rail.
And any subject we can't talk about, count me in.
Now, it's interesting because black men, according to the various studies, are twice as likely To marry someone of a different race compared to black women.
And this is incredible.
In fact, I've got some research here which is fascinating.
According to various Pew research, in the United States, and I quote, black adults marry later in life, have the lowest marriage rate, the highest divorce rate.
And are most likely to never marry.
I mean, you talk about covering all of the various demographics.
At the same time, the most successful relationships are between black women and white men.
These relationships are substantially less likely to end in divorce than those between white couples, according to the Pew Research Center.
As a black woman, And by the way, there's a wonderful piece, and I refer you to her.
It's an article out of PopSugar by Daria Yazmiene.
Y-A-Z-M-I-E-N-E.
An excellent, a most fascinatingly scholarly piece.
I love this stuff.
Now, there's also called the Mammy Effect.
And this is another one too.
Do you remember a while back when...
Drew Barrymore had on Kamala Harris that says, we need a mamala.
We need a mamala.
Well, what does that mean?
That's the story that says that in addition to all of this, there is this stereotypical aspect.
Of black women being the strong mammy types, the ones who the white families and antebellum and other, you know, during the darker parts of American history in the South where they became,
I don't know if that's necessarily a darker part or a bad part, but when black women were domestics and the quote mammy, and obviously you can do any of the slave references you want, but the idea was that We revered and enjoyed the black,
strong woman who held the family together, who oftentimes were given the role of mother and disciplinarian to the children of white, I don't want to say plantation owners, I'm really dating myself, but you know, we see it here.
All the time here in New York.
You can call them nannies.
We don't say au pairs anymore.
But there is a proliferation.
And it may not be the mammy effect per se.
It just may be that black women and others, many of them from Caribbean areas of the world, show a particular fiery refusal to brook You know, nonsense from children.
And maybe that's it.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this.
So, either way, it's a fascinating subject.
Why do I love this?
Because we, I'm not going to say conversation, we never talk about race.
Never.
We never talk about the interracial problems of what is looked down more upon within the black community.
A black man dating a white woman?
Or a white woman dating a black man?
Or a black woman dating a white man?
That's about it.
And I guess now we can get into all kinds of permutations of non-binary this and that.
Fascinating.
And the majority of the problems are not necessarily racial, it's cultural.
And if you talk to people, if you talk to men and women who marry, let's say, Asian American or Latino, and I don't mean somebody who is necessarily Asian American or Latino American, but somebody, let's say, from a foreign country marrying an American male, you'll see the same things too.
Now here's something interesting.
What if this is true?
What if, what if there is something to the fact that black women may, by virtue of whatever reason, jazz up the social and physical and sartorial accoutrement of their menfolk?
I find that fascinating.
What if there is something about the white savior syndrome?
When people look at black NBA stars, NFL stars, do they prefer?
I don't know this.
I'm asking the question.
Is there a preponderance?
Of the women that they have selected, let's say the black players, to be white?
Is that considered preferred?
I know nobody wants to talk about this.
And you can never talk about this if you are non-black or if you are white or whatever it is.
But there are intraracial distinctions and aspects regarding skin color, hair, looks.
Tone.
There were wonderful tones of either sepian or sepian, different phrases.
There was a wonderful word a while back, you don't hear anymore, negritude.
And they would refer to, and this was when the word negro was not considered at all racial, but the negris.
I mean, it was Interesting.
It's that subject that we love to swear we don't want to talk about.
It's the subject that we swear we don't want to talk about.
And I think it's fascinating!
Especially as the elections near, round the corner.
Because the bottom line is simply this.
Is there...
A difference between black folks and white folks?
Not necessarily organically, not in terms of right, but in terms of culture and attitude?
Are you kidding?
Of course there is!
And I find it fascinating.
Is there anything to this?
The black-white effect?
Anything?
Do you think this is at all even remotely true?
I find it fascinating.
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