Racist love

Racist love is a term used to describe a dominant racial group approving of racial minorities, but only under the condition that the minorities behave according to racial stereotypes that make them easy to control.

The term was coined by Asian American authors Frank Chin and Jeffery Paul Chan in a 1972 article entitled "Racist Love". Chin and Chan differentiate between the terms racist hate and racist love. They distinguish between "unacceptable" stereotypical behavior, which characterizes people of color who cannot be controlled by whites, and "acceptable" stereotypical behavior, which characterizes people of color who can be controlled by whites. Hence, "acceptable" stereotypes form the basis of racist love. Chin and Chan write:

White racism enforces white supremacy. White supremacy is a system of order and a way of perceiving reality. Its purpose is to keep whites on top and set them free. Colored minorities in white reality are stereotypes. Each racial stereotype comes in two models, the acceptable and the unacceptable. The hostile black stud has his acceptable counterpart in the form of Stepin Fetchit. For the savage, kill-crazy Geronimo, there is Tonto and the Hollywood version of Cochise. For the mad dog General Santa Ana there's the Cisco Kid and Pancho. For Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril, there is Charlie Chan and his Number One Son. The unacceptable model is unacceptable because he cannot be controlled by whites. The acceptable model is acceptable because he is tractable. There is racist hate and racist love.

If the system works, the stereotypes assigned to the various races are accepted by the races themselves as reality, as fact, and racist love reigns. The minority's reaction to racist policy is acceptance and apparent satisfaction. Order is kept, the world turns without a peep from any nonwhite. One measure of the success of white racism is the silence of that race and the amount of white energy necessary to maintain or increase that silence.

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