they’re baaaaaack

although he’s the consensus best ball player of all-time, a global icon, and the worst front-office executive in the history of the nba, you can argue that michael jordan’s most resonate impact in the black community has to do with the fact that he, more than any other one person, brought dark-skinned black men “back in style.”

you see, before mj became popular, black america was mired in a hilarious rut where male light-skinned points were freely and indiscriminately passed around like a paper football or luvvie’s panties, regardless of how awkwardly maned or aesthetically unfortunate (read: “richie, lionel”) the person happened to be.

a young champ even felt the effects of this, having once been deemed “too dark and crispy” in 4th grade by the object of the young champ’s affection, passed by and discarded for a 10 year old doppleganger of kid from kid n play. to this day, the champ refuses to watch “house party”.

jordan’s ascension in the late 80’s started a wave of darker-skinned black male affirmative attractiveness action, allowing men such as wesley snipes, kadeem hardison, and the notorious b.i.g. to be deemed sex symbols. this phenomenon has continued today, a dynamic which has also made it cool for women openly question the perceived “manhood” or “blackness” of our lighter-skinned brethren.

with the leader of the free world being a paper-bag test passing brotha with weed lips the color of the sacramento kings (purple and gray), its safe to say that the balance of p*ssy procuring power has shifted (damnit!!). the al b. sure’s and el debarge’s of the world will be back with a vengeance, infesting nightclubs and happy hours across the country in their s-curled and baby haired glory. the light skinned brotha is officially back in style.

i have a few more but, people of vsb.com, what say you? what changes (if any) do you think an obama presidency will bring to our courting/dating/boning dynamic?

-the champ