The African and the Sissy: Redneck Domination of the Promiscuous

The Southern slave owner's obsession with the female African's fertility is not a symptom of simple sexual perversion, but an obsessive product of the American post-colonial economic system. By playing the role of sewer and reaper, the White plantation farmer, in a warped logic, "aided" the African woman. He harvested human capital that would otherwise be feeble and improperly reared. The idea that darker people were not capable of sewing and reaping themselves is still prevalent, i.e. the image of "welfare queens" and rough inner city areas.

At the root of a system where the African uterus is treated like a field of wheat by White men lies the dangerous presupposition that Africans, who supposedly reside genetically in that gray area between humanity and the animal kingdom, are more "natural," and therefore more promiscuous (Collins, 2004, p. 121). Though chattel slavery does not exist in the U.S. currently, the obsession with the maintenance of fertility persists.

Promiscuity, as a perpetrated evil, has been used as a Biblical vehicle of marginalization against Blacks and all other "inferior" groups by Christian, White hegemonic males to maintain a crumbling social order in Southern America. Through tools of emasculation and accusations of incompetency, the Southern hegemonic male denigrates others through these metaphors of promiscuity. The strongest and most widely-available forum for this activity of disparagement is modern "pop" country.