Hope You Caught Me
I hope everyone got the chance to see me on the show! If you didn’t, there are some videos of the show on Anderson Cooper.
Here’s a video of an audience member who says it makes her sick to see IR couples together, particularly Black men and White women and vice versa. Though she feels o about it, she’s not wrong for having an opinion. I got to talk with her and understand more of what she had to say backstage.
Here’s an IR couple’s response. I got to talk with them backstage as well – very nice and funny people:
My part isn’t in any of the videos, but all of them are interesting to listen to.
I’m also going to upload an album of pictures, hopefully when my computer stops giving me trouble.
In my next post I’m going to be blogging about the “language barrier” between cultures and me facing a fear I have been avoiding for the past few years in my relationship.
Update
Just started my new job and working on the transition. Haven’t forgotten to post about what I said I would be posting – just working on it this week and should be up some time soon!
Also pics from my NYC trip were on my laptop, which is now in the shop for repairs and so editing my pics to make an album on here is prolonged even more now. Hopefully the shop doesn’t take too long before these pics become irrelevant 🙂
Interesting clips. If you are a member of a minority group that feels itself disfavored, then when a member of your group marries outside the group, it feels like a rejection or a betrayal. This is less of an issue for Asian – white couples than for couples in which one member is black. One hopes this will become less true in time.
They only posted certain clips on their website. The only way to have seen me was to have watched the episode last Friday. Don’t know if they’ll ever show a rerun either. My part was very brief and I’m assuming that’s why they didn’t include mine or the Indian woman next to me. I wish they would post entire episodes on their site but they don’t.
True, the pool for Black men does becomes smaller because of interracial dating and therefore I see why Black women feel rejected or betrayed or none of the above. (This was all expressed on the show, I am not in any way speaking on behalf of a Black female). But I too hope this becomes less true over time. I honestly don’t feel the need to poke and prod at any one person for dating outside of his or her race or saying that the opposite race is “taking” one member of the race from them. If they don’t want to date the same race, then they don’t have to, they’re not betraying anyone.
Where is your clip from the show? I can’t find it.
YOU CAUGHT MEE RED-HANDED IN VANDERBILT JEANS!
HONG,
I LOVE ANDERSON COOPER! His Shows are sooo interesting! LIFE LIKE DOLLS that actually TAKE THE PLACE of REAL BABIES??, HUSBANDS WHO KILL, FRAUDBOOK MEN WHO LEAD DOUBLE LIVES, etc.! I feel LIKE this man has had a ring side ticket to view life and the crazy individuals that I have watched and known all along as I HAVE!! I AM A HUGE FAN ANDERSON!! NEVER A DULL MOMENT WITH YOU! THAT IS WHY HE FEATURED HONG! He is on the CUTTING EDGE of the NEWS! BTW LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT GLORIA VANDERBILT and GUESS WHAT?? THE BRAT PACKER THAT I AM, I STILL HAVE MY OLD VANDERBILT JEANS!! YEP! Believe it or not, I USED TO STICK MY ASS OUT ALONG WITH MY LITTLE GROUP OF GIRLFRIENDS AT THE TIME and IMITATE the COMMERCIAL after I SPENT ONLY ABOUT ONE HOUR SQUEEZING INTO JEANS THAT WERE AT LEAST 2 SIZES TOO SMALL FOR MEE! I think I am going to WEAR THEM DOWN NOW for old times sake! I AM A FASHION TRENDSETTER TOO AND THEY ARE SOOO COOL! VANDERBILT, GLORIA VANDERBILT-THEY’RE BACK and THAT’s A WRAP (AROUND MY ASS!) 🙂 WINK
Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans ad 1980
I once had a girlfriend who told of having to use a clothes hanger to put in the zipper tab to yank the zipper up on her too tight jeans. She didn’t have saddlebags and was a hard body, but it was the only way she could get into her jeans. By the way….I couldn’t get into those jeans either. Needless to say, she’s someone elses problem now.
I agree with the first guy. I’m a black woman and I went to Tokyo 3 months ago and the guys are ralely into black woman and black culture in general. They have great respect for all kinds of cultures and I must have seen like a hundred interracial couples and most of them were black woman with Asian men.