Introduction
Race is one of the most vexing problems facing America today. Civil strife in our urban centers has been growing at an alarming rate with the black and white races viewing one another with increasing fear and disgust. While there have been many advances made to cure this racial illness blacks and whites in America are finding that they can no longer communicate and two separate societies seem to be evolving in the United States, one for each major racial group. Even though blacks and whites may work and play together the tensions between them is very real, boiling just below the surface. Nothing brings these tensions out as much as inter-racial sexual affairs. Hate and love have always been closely allied but the addition of race to a sexual relationship narrows the gap even more.
Calvin Hernton, in SEX AND RACISM IN AMERICA, claims that every inter-racial affair is a confused love-hate relationship with both parties flaying one another with racial slurs each time they have even the mildest disagreement. More often than not these inter-racial affairs are comprised of white females and black males but, lately, there has been a sharp rise in the number of white male-black female matches. Mr. Hernton maintains that the majority of these affairs are started in business offices where white men are being exposed to black girls for the first time in there lives. This book is about these girls who have found that they are objects of white lust the moment they are hired.
BLACK MANHATTAN, by James Weldon Johnson, inter-racial affairs in the world of business are explored deeply. According to the author many white employers consider having black secretaries as status symbols. By having an attractive Negro girl in the office a white man can prove his "Liberal" political views. At first black girls were hired as token "house niggers" by major companies under the pressure of militant black groups but now a large number of white employers find that they prefer these females of a different color over their own kind. Sex, very often, is the basis of this new demand for black secretaries and other office workers.
When a beautiful Negro girl is hired by a white firm she is aware that all too many white men will think of her as an easy mark because of the racial myth of black sexual superiority. While whites may think that blacks are inferior in every other way a surprising number have the false notion that Negroes have much stronger and more powerful erotic drives than they have. Carter Woodson, in THE NEGRO IN OUR HISTORY, claims that this myth was accepted by whites from the time the first black slave was brought to America. It remains, today, as one of the more lasting racial beliefs even amongst supposedly sophisticated whites, males and females.
Not all Negro women resent being chased by white men. In a book by Charles Silberman called CRISIS IN BLACK AND WHITE, the author says that some Negroes, having grown up with a feeling of racial inferiority, reject the idea that they can be happy with members of their own race so they turn to whites in hopes of getting both love and success. During my own investigation into the affairs between black girls and their employers I've found this to be true and I've included some of these stories in this book. I am also including the racial hate that seems to be a part of every love affair between blacks and whites.
Robert Rehbein, Ph. D.