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Stephgirl
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Username: Stephgirl
Post Number: 72
Registered: 09-2005
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 - 11:50 am: | 
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What do you think of the book, White Men Can't Hump by Todd Wooten?
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http://www.whitemencanthump.com/default.asp |
Grind
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Username: Grind
Post Number: 141
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 4 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 18, 2006 - 03:12 am: |
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It sounds stupid. Have you read it? |
Stephgirl
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Post Number: 73
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Votes: 4 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 11:52 am: |
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Book Review: White Men Can't Hump
By Kam Williams
Not only can’t white men jump, but they apparently can’t hump either. And Todd Wooten has so much to say on the subject that it took him a couple of volumes totaling over 500 pages of painstakingly-researched analysis to make his case. Wooten, an ex-Marine, worked as a bouncer, a prison guard, a mall cop, a paramedic and a firefighter before embarking on a new career as a self-appointed expert on mating habits across the color line.
To his credit, the sagacious, salacious sex historian makes up for his lack of credentials with an infectious enthusiasm for his material and a colorful ability to turn a phrase, even if he is prone to profanity. Overall, White Men Can't Hump happens to be quite an entertaining page-turner which rests on the thesis that the legacy of slavery has left black males both devalued and blamed for their collective lower station in life.
Sisters, he says, fare far better than brothers, specifically because they have always been desired by the white male. As proof, he points to the 1860 U.S. census which classified 588,532 individuals as mulattos, virtually all fathered by whites.
He further argues that liaisons between black males and white females are still taboo to this day, which he illustrates by looking at how romance has been portrayed in mainstream movies. Very rarely was Wooten able to find black actors in explicit embraces with white actresses.
Yet, he encountered innumerable instances of the flip side, most notably, Halle Berry’s Oscar-winning soft-porn performance opposite Billy Bob Thornton in Monster’s Ball. The author even goes so far as to give a breakdown of all of Halle’s onscreen love scenes, concluding that she has been far more intimate and shown more skin with her Caucasian leading men than with black ones.
White Men Can't Hump delineates similar data for dozens of other thespians, and, assuming its statistics are legit, it becomes hard to disagree with the book’s basic conclusion that American culture, with the help of Hollywood, is intent on neutering the black male. Why? Because of what Wooten calls WMD, White Man’s Dread, namely, fear of a black penis.
This timely tome devotes considerable space to some other concerns, such as African-American self-improvement. In this regard, he lambasts the BET network whose programming he describes as “atrocious” in an eloquent, if expletive-laced, tirade which reads as follows”
“It consists of 20 hours of b*llshit and 4 hours of infomercials. Learn to rap and say ‘b*llshit.’ That’s quite an educational message to send to black youth. The network is a disgrace and I don’t care who owns it or runs it. It’s f*ckin’ terrible, period.”
Mr. Wooten is just as blunt when assessing rap music, which he likens to a fad destined to fade away, ala the big bands, doo-wop and disco. “Hip-hop is not a culture,” he states emphatically.
“Hip-hop is not a way of life, hip-hop is enter-f*cking-tainment, period. To say that hip-hop is a way of life is like saying video games are a way of life. Video games are nothing more than a form of entertainment that leads to nowhere, just like hip-hop. The only value these forms of entertainment offer to the masses is a temporary escape from reality.”
Taking no prisoners, White Men Can't Hump is an equal-opportunity offender, and an admirable effort by Todd Wooten to close the human divide by addressing a litany of uncomfortable issues with the goal of eradicating both intolerance and low self-esteem because as stated in the catchphrase printed at the bottom of the book’s every page, “Life is too short to hate.”
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Nuuon
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Username: Nuuon
Post Number: 28
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 01:25 pm: |
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The issues discussed by Todd Wooten in his book, WHITE MAN CAN'T HUMP, was covered back in March of 2006 by a poster called "Super Mann":
http://blacktown.net/messageboardfresh/viewtopic.php?t=7
The post included an analysis of Halle Berry's on-screen sex exploits with white men. |
China_b
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Username: China_b
Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 01:47 am: |
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Nuuon, I suggest you visit: www.whitemencanthump.com ,and then revisit the discussuion of this book. Frankly, I'm stunned by the lack of disscussion about this book. This book is the best book on race and sex in America ever written, period. Kam Williams (aalbc's most prominent book & movie reviewer) selected this book as the 4th BEST BLACK BOOK OF 2006 and it wasn't released until the year was nearly over. I think this author rolled the dice with the silly book title, but there's nothing silly about this book at all. He chose the title to show how wrong it is to judge a book (or a person) by its cover (or its title). The basic premise of the book is that racism against black men stems from fear of the black penis. The evidence he provides is concrete solid, abundant in volume, and overwhelming in its description. He shows how heinous historical events such as: Scottsboro, Rosewood, Anti-Miscegenation Laws, Lynching, and Castration, shape the very attitudes that mis-portray black men in today's media and Hollywood. I've read both books (500 pages) twice, and I still skim thru them from time to time because I keep them next to my bathtub. This book will make you laugh-out loud, CRY, cuss, and scream. He mixes his real life experiences with history, Hollywood, the media, the Iraq War, immigration, prison life, and dozens of other truths, lies, myths, and events. This book and the author's name are all over Google, and what I find confusing is the fact that Black Radio won't touch him, but White Shock Jocks love him. White Shock Jocks love him even though he consistently tells them: "All I'm saying is that, if these things whites have said about the black penis and the black male sexual prowess are true, then that means we're better in the bedroom than you." I heard him drop this bombshell during a radio interview, and the host no longer thought Flavor Flav's "Flavor of Love," or Tim Meadow's "The Ladies Man" was so damn funny. His book takes the white love for creating black sexual buffoonery and put's a Bush-like Whitehouse spin on it that shuts white folks up and turns them into quiet little grade school students. He shut these host up and politely lectured them uninterruppted for 15 minutes. After the interview they said they couldn't wait to buy the book. Unfortunately, black folks seem to be missing out. That's pretty sad. |
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