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I don’t care what your feelings are about the magazine. Came up with an idea for a magazine at a time when everyone was running away from print and flying to the Internets. The next time I spoke to Datwon, the preview issue of KING was making the rounds.ĭude was twenty-something years old.

I remember walking back to The Source after lunch and thinking to myself, that boy’s got some big dreams.

It felt like the equivalent of me pitching a black women’s magazine directly to Clarence Smith and Susan Taylor. Why on earth would Harris launch a magazine pitched by a fellow twenty-something writer with just a few more years of experience than I had? But honestly, I didn’t think he had a chance. “Oh,” I said, “and lots of tits and ass, too.”ĭatwon told me he was pitching the concept to Harris Publications, which published XXL. Something that would be irreverent, smart and witty. Datwon told me about his plans to start a magazine, from scratch. And every once in a while, we’d break bread to catch up and talk shop. We had a friendly rivalry since I was at The Source and he’d recently left XXL to work for. Ten years ago, I had lunch with Datwon Thomas, a fellow editor.

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All that said let me explain where he is coming from because I feel just as he does where it comes to sexual desires… I grew up not attracted to black women, They might have been pretty they might have even had a wonderful figure but the idea of actually having sex with a black woman was just not something I wanted, Not because they were black but because of the porns i had seen in my younger years which showed black women to have beat up skin, a ton of bushy hair down there and more often than not it aint all pink inside as they say… I then got an image in my head of black women in general having these features, great in clothing but once that skin is bared out is gonna come the beat up sun tattered flesh and all that coarse bushy hair thats gonna tear my shit up lol it was not an attractive idea… I married a white woman and that didnt work out I ended up marrying my now wife of over 8 years together over 10 with 2 girls one just turned 8 the other just turned 1… We have been through a ton of shit together but always managed to beat it and come out on top, I have never cheated on her and I never will! She is my Queen, even when she irritates me lol… One does not have to be racist to not be attracted to someone of another race… For another example these bollywood chicks, 99.999% of the time they look horrible out of their clothing but there are those super rare exceptions as there are always exceptions to every rule every group every anything.So the thing is, KING magazine was always more than just a place where I wrote stuff. We go to work to provide for ourselves and we all die from basically the same shit. We also have 2 beautiful little girls together! 🙂 I state all this first to assure you that there is not one racist fraction of marrow on any of my bones that is racist! I am in fact a very vocally anti racist person if you will, I detest it, I fail to understand it because to me we are all human we all bleed red and we all come from Earth so wtf is the difference really? we all eat to live sleep to regenerate make love the same way in order to perpetuate our species. I had her pegged immediately cause of the nose hair and freckles. Relax onxy lol I can feel him on what he’s saying and maybe explain it a little better so you may understand that where he was coming from was not that of a racist or anything like that… I myself am married to a 1/2 and 1/2 Black and white woman who appears for the most part to be white just not light skin as she does have that half black in her, She has the Black nose and the Black hair and the freckles, She states that only Black men have ever been able to notice that she is black everyone else thinks she is Italian or something except that is of course for me.

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