On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> We are also interested in historical differences and causal explanations
> of them as well. When and how did the myth of black men's sexual
> rapacity arise?
For what it's worth, it seems to go along with racial hatred. If you read the stuff that Nazis wrote about Jews and their sexual rapacity, it reads exactly like the stuff that American whites wrote about blacks. Even though almost everything in their racist checklists seems the opposite.
After all is said and done, racial mythology is about who slept with who to make you who you are. It's the prime defining line to be defended if you want to defend this mythical thing called a race. And sexual rapacity is just the will to violate raised to a higher pitch, justifying greater ferocity to defend the line. (Because if "they" aren't interested in crossing it, "we" don't have to worry about defending it.)
Michael