Summary:
Black mom is drawn into her daughter's white gf's racial play.
Note 1:
Thanks to Breezy for suggesting this racial role reversal story.
WARNING:
Please note that unlike most of my interracial stories, where a white man or woman submits to a black man or woman... this time a black mother and daughter submit to an 18-year-old white girl.
Racial play and taboo terms like the 'N' word are prevalent. If these offend you, please stop reading now.
I should note this story was requested by a black woman who finds this kind of taboo racial roleplaying arousing.
Note 2: Thanks to Tex Beethoven for editing this novella.
Taking Liberties
It took me some time to deal with learning that my only daughter Keisha, my only child for that matter, was a lesbian. Not because I'm some homophobic woman... or some 'Karen'... or some wing nut politician attempting to inflict laws upon people about their sexuality... no... my difficulty was for two reasons: one of them selfish, and the other one motherly.
1. The selfish one: I wanted grandkids, or at least a grandkid. I know adoption is possible, or artificial insemination, but they're just not the same.
2. The motherly one: we lived in the South, and in an area where even in the so-called enlightened 21
st
century, being gay could still provoke unfavorable attention and mistreatment.
Two years later, I'd gotten over the first issue (mostly), but I was still concerned about the second one... exacerbated by some hate crimes recently committed against some gay people... and then a third concern arose when I met Keisha's new girlfriend... and much to my surprise... they were already living together. The surprise including: her girlfriend Amber was white (my daughter and I are black) and she was three years younger than my daughter, at just eighteen. Christ, the girl had only graduated from high school six weeks prior!
And even though I'd been gearing myself up to give her the benefit of the doubt, her first impression wasn't at all positive, when she showed up for our extended family's annual 'Last Weekend in August Family Picnic' in my backyard wearing a crop top, jean shorts, and for reasons no sane person would ever comprehend, black thigh high stockings. Now I have nothing against stockings, although I myself would never wear them in public. I'd worn pantyhose only for funerals, and not even for my wedding, until my newest boyfriend of eight months had a thing for nylons, so now I wore them sometimes, but only in the bedroom. They were sexy, but only suitable for when I was getting dicked. No black woman ever wears pantyhose or nylons in casual public settings. As I watched this girl arrive while shaking my head in disapproval, not yet realizing this white trash bimbo was my daughter's girlfriend, I looked up and saw my daughter also entering the backyard.
That disapproval shifted into astonishment when I saw my daughter wearing a sundress... not at all strange... with white nylons underneath... very strange... since no black woman
ever
wears white nylons... if they wear any at all... and no black woman would
ever
wear pantyhose in the summer... in the South. And... throughout her entire life, I hadn't once seen Keisha wearing nylons of any sort.
As I was trying to process my daughter's strange new fashion choice at our family barbecue, I watched her walk up to the pretty-enough-to-be-a-model-but-with-disastrous-fashion-sense blonde white girl and kiss her... on the lips... with tongues... and at length!
My eyes went wide.
The white girl I was judging had to be the new girlfriend Keisha had told me she was bringing along.
Fuck!
She hadn't mentioned anything about the girl being white.
Or that she looked like a child but dressed like a prostitute.
3. I know this sounds racist, but she was white... drop dead beautiful, and white
.
Meaning that now my daughter was in danger of not only provoking slings and arrows for being gay, but also for being biracially gay. In the South!
Keisha walked towards me, now holding hands with this white girl, and upon reaching me, dropped her hand momentarily to give me a big hug.
"Mama, this is my girlfriend Amber," Keisha introduced, looking very happy.
I turned on my very best (but totally fake) smile, which I often needed to do around certain white people, while I thought to myself,
of course her name is Amber,
"It's nice to meet you, Amber."
"Nice to meet you too, Liberty," Amber responded with a warm smile.
Yes, my given name is Liberty. I don't know how many people know that the Statue of Liberty was modeled from a mixture of mostly black women, possibly including the Colossus of Rhodes, a Nubian goddess and various Egyptian peasant women. In any case, my parents named me after Lady Liberty, which I'm rather proud of, even though I've carried that name for forty-four years and counting.
However, I was aghast that she was addressing me as Liberty instead of Ms. Black (having reverted to my maiden name after my divorce). Yet I didn't correct her. Instead I asked politely, "How long have you two girls been together?"
"All summer," Keisha said.
"I see," I nodded, trying to appear interested and non-judgemental as I added, "And may I ask how old you are, Amber?"
"Eighteen," she said. "I know I look younger."
"She graduated from high school at the top of her class," Keisha said proudly, clearly knowing her mother and the plethora of questions that would be spinning through my head. "Just like I did three years ago."
"Very impressive," I said, although from looking at her, that didn't seem overly realistic, unless she'd fucked her way into her top grades. But then I felt a little bad about being so judgemental. In spite of our history of being persecuted, or maybe because of it, we blacks need to hold ourselves to a high standard when it comes to displaying even a hint of racism in ourselves; since if we step across some ill-defined line, there are people who'll be quick to shout, "See? You're just as racist as you always accuse us of being!"
"And I'm rooming with your daughter, since we'll be attending the same college this fall," Amber added.
"You're what?" I asked, my façade of propriety crumbling in an instant.
"Yes, Mama," Keisha jumped in, knowing I wasn't happy about that. I was paying for Keisha's small but lavish house a block from the campus. She had a scholarship good for all four years, but it only paid for her tuition and textbooks. Coming from a well off successful family and doing very well in the divorce, I had lots of money, so I made sure Keisha had all she needed to be successful in college, and she wouldn't need to worry about money. My daughter, sweetheart that she is, had decided to attend a college just three hours away, even though she'd been offered scholarships to schools all over the country. I know she would have preferred Stanford, but she chose to matriculate a fairly short drive away from me, so I wouldn't be totally alone after her father had left me three years ago for his secretary... his white secretary, who was much younger than I was... shortly after I'd walked in on her bent over his desk while he fucked her.
"I think we need to talk," I said, trying to retain my warm persona while also being a little terse, and unavoidably revealing I wasn't happy with this revelation. As I hope I've made clear, I always did my best not to be at all racist, but I assumed this white girl was having sex with my daughter, which normally might not be an issue, except that a part of me was still feeling pretty raw from my husband's betrayal.
"Okay Mama, but please not here and now," Keisha urged in a whisper.
"Yes Liberty, it was very generous of your sexy daughter to allow me to move in with her," Amber said, making me cringe at her continuing use of my given name. "I really appreciate it. I didn't know how I was going to be able to attend college and also find a place to live, since my parents can't afford to pay for both the tuition and my living expenses."
"Oh, okay," I said, not really thrilled by this arrangement, but being well aware of my sweet daughter's generosity. She'd always been a people pleaser, always putting other people ahead of herself. (I'd also noticed Amber had called my daughter 'sexy'.)
"How did you two meet?" I asked, still trying to process how my daughter could possibly have hooked up with someone so different from her, not to mention younger.