see now sistah, we are speaking the same lingo. i dont understand black people tearing down one another either. I love my black people, especially when they are acting right, but I cant stand negroes(like chris rock says) when all they do is play a victim(white man did this to us, this country is racist, etc).
I am old enough to remember the old days when there was no affirmative action. black folks owned businesses in Jim Crow South, black folks when to college and universities in Jim Crow South, black folks had our own in Jim Crow South, Black folks loved one another in Jim Crow South and we were proud and we still did the right thing. Then came integration and our schools went to secular humanist hands and all was lost. Now all we depend upon is a handout from rich whites(called Scholarships) or even worse, Government Programs. we were independent once and now we think the Democratic party is our new savior, liberalism our new God.
We have forgotten to treat the black elderly with respect. we have forgotten that black women are beautiful and need our protection as men, we have forgotten(BW) that you are women first, you are nurturers, made to be feminine and soft, not to try to be hard like men. we have forgotten that it is not white liberal handouts that take care of our children or the socialist democratic party government, but it is US, We take care of our own.
If I have made a desparaging remark about any black woman I beg your forgiveness, i personally apologize. I love black women, but because of the state of society black people have lost our way. and we no longer share the sme community space and ideals we once did. Now, it is WW who are being more nurturing and feminine(not all and not all sistahs are hard). But many brothers feel that they have to compete and fight with a sistah, when they want to be loved and cared for. sistahs feel that the black man has let them down and they have been emasculated by the welfare state(black victimhood perpetuates the ghetto and welfare state mentality and white liberals love to see us as Projects to save) and cant support, stand up and protect and raise their children. We let white Liberalism/socialism turn us from men to sex objects and addicts, we let liberalism/socialism turn us into refugees and lost souls.
I agree with all that you have said and i will retract what I have said about what you were writing before. I see your point now. I wish that there were more sistahs out there who could speak to this deadly divide and start a dialog with the community, not competing but communicating.
in grad school I had two wonderful black women as apartment mates, and i could have these convos with them--but we drifted because they wanted to date thugs, who ultimately let them down, impregnated them, beat them up or used them(probably because they didnt have positive male role models) and because I was seen as a nerdy brother and sistahs dont dig that.
the dialog should start with trying not to control each other, not trying to say who is black enough and who isnt. I was born to a black mother and a black(multiracial) father. I am as black as they come color wise. history wise, knowledge of my family, and peoples history, I am blacker than most, especially the bros and sisters who dont know their own family history, never owned anything solely black and dont know where they come from in the motherland or here.
then we can move forward to a brighter day
