Dennis Rodman has been on my mind lately. I remember when I was in high school a black man was killed by some white supremacists in Texas. One of my cousins claimed Rodman sent money and condolences to the victim’s family. I don’t know if this kind act can truly be attributed to Rodman, but just hearing a rumor that he did that gave me some respect for Rodman.

Last week, I watched ESPN’s documentary Rodman: for Better or Worse. It’s part of their 30 for 30 series in which they profile various athletes and teams. Anyway, I DVR’d the program and was half-watching it while lying on the couch dozing off when I heard a white woman being interviewed. This woman is someone close to Rodman, the matriarch of a family Rodman lived with when he was an adolescent after his own mother kicked him out of her house. Anyway, the white woman being interviewed said Rodman didn’t like black women, which disappoints me. What have black women ever done to Dennis Rodman?

I did a half-assed search on the web a few days ago to see if Rodman had publicly slurred or dissed black women. I found an article online from years ago in which he told a magazine that black women wouldn’t date him when he was poor. But is that a good enough reason to dislike all of us, especially considering that many white women probably wouldn’t have dated a poor version of Rodman either. The white woman in the 30 for 30 documentary openly admitted to calling Rodman the n-word when she grew angry at him, and Rodman said himself that growing up in Oklahoma in a white community he was often slurred and mistreated by whites. So why would he turn around and say that it’s black women he doesn’t like?  In the other part of his magazine interview, he claimed dating white women as an NBA player is popular, which we know already, but why turn against black women? The other thing he said is that dating white women brings something different, which makes it sound like he is aroused by taboo or fetishism, which is well within his rights, but it still doesn’t explain why no love for black women is given.

Anyway, I don’t like him anymore.