Issa Rae Riles Up Fans Over 3-Year-Old Book Calling on Black Women to Date Asian Men
The best-seller, “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girls” — which Rae wrote before rocketing to fame on her HBO series — includes a passage that proposes “black women and Asian men join forces in love, marriage, and procreation. Educated black women, what better intellectual match for you than an Asian man?”
For context, here are pictures one fan tweeted of the book’s intro and the section that has fans both attacking and defending Rae on Twitter:
On Issa Rae.
Because context matters. And because I read her book. And because I taught her book.