I have taken the most common definition and modified them to what I believe they are in this day and age.
Coon: A person of African(Black) descent in the public eye (Entertainer, Politician, Athlete, Radio personality, YouTube personality etc..) who goes out of their way to elevate white European society and denigrate Black or African people, cultures & societies.
Tommy Sotomayor is a good example of a coon. He routinely goes out of his way to put down Black women and elevate white women. He does all of this for money and attention.
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Kerry Washington
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Kerry Washington is another example of a coon because she promotes the idea through her acting on the television show Scandal that being the mistress of a powerful white man is better than being the wife of a powerful Black man. She disrespects her real life husband tremendously by continuing in this role.
House Negro: A person of African (Black) descent who empowers and supports the white power structure to the detriment of their own people and is completely unwilling to divorce themselves from white people & white society.
Malcolm X defined the House Negro as living in the masters house, wears the masters hand me down clothes and sees everything from the perspective of the master. So whenever that house Negro identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself.
When his master said, "We have good food," the house Negro would say, "Yes, we have plenty of good food." "We" have plenty of good food. When the master said that "we have a fine home here," the house Negro said, "Yes, we have a fine home here." When the master would be sick, the house Negro identified himself so much with his master he'd say, "What's the matter boss, we sick?" His master's pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master's house out than the master himself would.
Black people who marry white people are in this category whether they like it or not. They are House Negroes because they live with a white person, wine & dine a white person, and have sex with a white person. The reason they give for being with a white person might vary but the truth is they do not like their skin tone, hair texture, or "African" features. If they truly loved how they look, wouldn't they want to preserve their features in their children? The only way to preserve those features you love in yourself is to be with someone like you.
My opinion is that there are plenty of beautiful Black people from dozens of nations in the Americas and Africa. There is such a large variety of skin tones & features from the light brown to the dark brown that any Black man or woman who loves themselves should not have a problem finding the right person to date or marry.
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My Dream Woman |
There are a lot of House Negroes present in this day and age. A lot of well known politicians are House Negroes because they strive to uphold this establishment in one form or another. I have rambled on for long enough but in this post you have my definitions of Coon and House Negro.
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Allen West
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