God's Little Joke
Dean
I have a friend I work with named D'Wayne. He's one of the few people who've read the book I've been working on the last year and a half with my spiritual brother John. He is a big fan. And for that, I thank my brother D'wayne.
But aside from that....
D'Wayne (who I often call "dee-wayne") is black. He's also one of the smartest cats I know, and is also creatively one of the most interesting people I know. One day--I know in my heart--he will produce either a novel or a screenplay that will rock everybody's world.
Interestingly, he has a son--a beautiful son whose picture brings us both joy every time he shows it to me--he made with a white girl whom he loves (and who you ought to marry, D'wayne, you stupid s**t!).
But aside from that, he has more than once had a conversation with me that matches a conversation I have had more with my beautiful Polish queen. That conversationt goes something like this:
"Have you ever noticed that mixed-race kids, they're almost always beautiful?"
No, seriously, have you ever noticed? Because it's true.
Mind you, I have some black friends who say, "Yeah, that's because black goes with everything." And to an extent they're right about that. The classic black features: the ebony skin, the broad nose, the sensuous lips, the lanky frame:
They're beautiful all by themselves.
Well yeah. They just are. No doubt.
But if you look at some of the mixed-race stars in Hollywood, really now: they're just beautiful all by themselves. They just are.
But then D'wayne laid the line on me that I really loved, that I wanted to share with you all--the line that rocked my world:
Mixed-race kids: they're so beautiful because it's God's way of telling you that you're looking at the whole "race" thing wrong.
Well damn: ain't it the truth?
It's almost like God's own little joke on all of us, ain't it?
Well I think so anyway.
Oh, and by the way, have I ever mentioned that aside from The Queen, I have often thought that Halle Berry may just be the most beautiful woman who ever lived?
Marilyn Monroe never had s*** on her.
Now, Kristin Kreuk is beautiful. She's half Dutch/half Chinese.
Take a vacation man. It sounds like your flame-thrower is out of juice. This post is just so politically correct. It's not like you.
I think beauty is primarily a product of the parents' genes. Although I think it was Red Foxx that said, "Beauty is skin deep. But Ugly goes right to the bone."
Those are two that jumped out at me right away.
But as my father is hispanic and my mother a Casper-The-Ghost Class Whitey, I was considered a 'mixed' child. Really, WTF is that? People say mixed like races are genetically incompatible or something.
Guy + Girl = baby (or Tube + Syringe = baby ;) there's nothing 'mixed' about that. It's a stupid term.
And by the way, I'm an exception to your rule. I'm quite the dorky looking sumofabitch.
Seriously though, it is my prediction that in the next 200 years there won't even be such thing as different races. Everyone will be mixed. And if that means all women will look like Halle...well man I hope I'm somehow alive to see that.
Randomly, this reminds me of a complaint I heard from somebody over a fantasy book, because "all of the princes and princesses are beautiful." Thinking about it, that's not only possible but likely, since the rich folk would be at the top of the heap for good food and health care (such as it was); good health leads to symmetry and symmetry is beautiful.
Of course you’re not going to see these people in Hollywood. You’re more likely to find them on street corners and in trailer parks. These are people who have a hard time fitting in anywhere. I really feel sorry for some of them as they are growing up.
I have some “mixed race” relatives. In their case, it came out pretty even. 1 is beautiful, 1 is average, and 1 is ugly.
I, personally, am about 99.9% white, traced back to the mid 1700’s. There’s a big mix of “whities” in there though. Scots-Irish, Irish, lots of German, and French. There’s one drop of American Indian blood in there, where my great great great grandfather married an Iroquois squaw. Those genes must still have an effect, because nobody can ever figure out what I am by looking at me. I could pass for an American Indian, or an Asian Indian, or Italian or middle Eastern, Hispanic, or whatever.
I guess my bottom line is that you just never know what those genes are going to do, or when they are going to do it.
The most spectacularly beautiful woman I ever saw was Chinese-Dutch, so this "beauty in crosses" isn't limited to any racial group. But again, it's all in the eye of the beholder.
That being said, I do think that generally mixed-race children are more attractive. I'd probably agree with the "outbreeding" hypothesis above.
It's one of the greatest consolations of my life. I've always wanted cute little Asian babies of my own, which would be impossible, as I'm white. At least I can be happy that someday I could have gorgeous half-Asian, half-white children if I marry an Asian guy.
But yeah. I saw a baby in an airport once who was the child of a mixed (black/white) couple and the baby looked just like a miniature Halle Berry. I mean, literally, she could have been Berry's little sister. So I'm all for that even if it is a cliche.
body types favorite seems to be voluptous asian (whatever mix of Asian and whatever gets the right parts a little bigger while keeping the small frame) for women, and hawaiian/haole for men (tall and a little thick, generally hairless...
Lot of generalities thrown in there of course.
And yes, the examples are very good. But for lasting beauty, look up Lena Horne. I saw a pic of her that showed her, then in her mid-eighties, still head-turning beautiful.
Hmm, perhaps she associated it with discrimination against darker-skinned blacks vs. lighter-skinned blacks, which is said to be fairly widespread.
All is well though.