Can Black Women Get Out of Their Own Way?
An open letter to Black women:
Don't Blame White women for the failures of Black women!
I watched a video editorial posted on Linkedin.com posted by a human resources professional, and therefore, this individual should be, must be well aware of AA/EEO and that words have meaning. Unfortunately, I'm not playing the race or sex card - it is what it is; the video was posted by a stereotypical 59-year old obese Black woman. Here's exactly what she said word-for-word:
Hey guys, happy a . . . Wednesday, day after Election Day. Um, at first I posted that 52% of White women um . . . voted for Trump and I corrected it with 69%, thank you, Michelle.Black women . . . White women have shown us time and time again that they are not for us; and I didn’t say all White women, but so if it doesn’t apply let it fly. White women have been the major contributors for upholding racism. Entire communities of Black people have died, lost everything due to White women’s lies. Baby Emmitt Till . . . White woman’s lies. Lake Lanier . . . White woman’s lies. Tulsa, Oklahoma . . . White woman’s lies. Rosewood . . . um . . . White woman’s lies . . . and I can go on and on and on and on and on.
Even today . . . corporate America . . . a ha . . . White women . . . they are the biggest abusers; and then they start their White woman tears, and they are victims; but when Black women, when our tears, or Black men, we don’t have the emotional intelligence – make it make sense . . . a ha. But White women showed us yesterday that they don’t give two “F’s” about Black women. They used us in the feminist movement to get what they want and continue to discriminate against us.
Black folks, let me tell you something, let me tell you now. We got to stand together and stop adding people to our fight, or fighting for other people, because nobody is fighting for us, we saw that yesterday!
Even our own kind don’t fight for us, but you know that’s another thing, “everybody that’s skin folk ain’t kin folk.”
So when they finish using you up, and throw you away, stay over there with them, because you wanted to be so close to Whiteness, and to White privilege that you would harm your own people even more so than White people or other non-Black people.
So today I see, which I’ve always known, that White women – they don’t give a damn about Black women . . . and it seems like other minorities don’t either.
I said what I said. I don’t care who likes it or not. The proof is in the pudding. Your actions showed it. Your actions showed it.
And Black women, because we supported them, and you’re getting ready to get pissed at me and I don’t care. Un-follow me. I don’t care about likes, comments, and shares; I really don’t, I’m gonna say what I'm gonna say. We should have stayed out of the feminist movement, because if we had Black people would be much further than we are if we had of stuck together like our ancestors did, but so many of you want to be close to Whiteness and greed and classism that you harm your own people. I have no respect for you. I have no respect for anyone that puts harm on Black people.
See, we have to sit and take our feelings, our emotions . . . if we say something that offends us, and that’s discriminatory we can get over it, but it’s another community who’s genocide didn’t happen here in the United States . . . but say something about them . . . or even you look like you’re gonna say something about them you lose your bank accounts, your careers, your homes, your livelihoods . . . so, does America care about Black people or not.
You answer the question.
Be blessed.
The original video remains on LinkedIn.com
Would the aforementioned statement be "acceptable" if a Korean woman said similar comments about Black women they frequently encounter while servicing the fingernails, toenails, wigs, hair weaves and extensions of Black women? Would the aforementioned statement be "acceptable" if a White woman said similar comments about Black women they frequently perceive as aggressive, temperamental, and obese? Well???
Again, the "human resource professional" who wrote the above diatribe said, "I don’t care about likes, comments, and shares; I really don’t, I’m gonna say what I'm gonna say." However, after she reviewed my original editorial which included her video and identity, on December 20, 2024 around 3:30 PM CST, she contacted me and expressed her "displeasure" for referencing her "publicly posted video," as the initial source for this editorial. Oh, the hypocrisy. Clearly, despite her statement to the contrary, she did care how people responded to her video declaration, which like the transcription above was not edited by me or taken out of context. I conveyed during our telephone conversation her "public" video did not address the "bigger picture" clearly addressed in this editorial. In fact, as posted in this editorial and literally dozens of editorials posted on this website over the past three-(3) decades, I agree with many of the points she raised. Of course, I offered her an opportunity to post a response, or even better, to provide me with another video and to comment specifically on the key points detailed in this video. She informed me should would NOT do so, and then hung-up on me.
So, why did I remove "her" unedited video and identity from the "intro" of this updated editorial? To be clear, this update was not based on any real or imagined threat of legal action. FACT: "Truth" is an absolute defense to claims of libel, slander, defamation, etc., because one of the elements that must be proven in a defamation suit is falsity of the statement; if a statement is true, it cannot be false, and therefore, there is no prima facie case of defamation. Again, she said: "I said what I said. I don’t care who likes it or not. I don’t care about likes, comments, and shares; I really don’t, I’m gonna say what I'm gonna say."
However, in my role as a seasoned human resource professional with robust subject matter expertise in all HR disciplines, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), in hindsight, during our telephone conversation "she" told me "she" experienced a "mental breakdown" earlier in 2024, which allegedly had something to do with White women. Perhaps, her video should be perceived as an emotional rant due to severe mental trauma and related debilitating psychosis. Accordingly, given her "mental issues," and although the ADA doesn't actually apply in this instance, nevertheless, this empathic HR professional removed "her" unedited video and identity from the "intro" of this updated editorial; but it still remains particularly inappropriate for any competent human resource professional to intentionally categorize and assail any race, ethnic group, or gender with language that is clearly offensive, racist, and discriminatory.
Statements have authenticity and greater value when presented with FACTS to validate such "opinions." The "Big Picture" of what "Being Black" actually means has very little to do with White women. Given the aforementioned, as you continue to read my editorials, please keep in mind, my "opinions" are not based on emotion or conspiracy theories or whatever, but anchored on readily available FACTS from both public and private sector organizations, owned and/or controlled by both White and Black people. Simply put, I don't search for facts to support my beliefs, I capture facts independent of my real or imagined biases. Get it?
For Black men AND Black women to exercise blind, obedient, and perpetual political patronage to either the Democratic or Republican parties is just STUPID! Where's the Black Political Party (BPP) designed to achieve political objectives specifically designed to improve the socio-economic status of Black people? Please read this:
http://www.tripoetry.com/Letters/Agenda.htm
THE BIG PICTURE
(of "Being Black")!
#1 - Make Black People Black Again (MBPBA)I've been monitoring the perpetual decline of Black people over the past 50+ years, and I've actively conveyed such to Black and White "key decision makers" without any success. Statistically, the greatest period of economic success and unity for the traditional Black family happened between 1950 to 1960 - while Black people were physically and culturally segregated from White people!
But, as Black people fell prey to White-engineered welfare, legalized abortion (which has always killed more Black male infants than any other racial or ethnic group), high unemployment, high crime, highest rates of divorce, and especially the folly of integration, Black people were no longer "Black and Proud." Instead, Black people just got stupid and cowardly . . . stupid and cowardly . . . while embracing Uncle Tom's, entertainers, and sports personalities as "leaders."
"Being Black" has absolutely nothing to do with being a Republican or Democrat, because these White-owned and White-controlled political organizations have NEVER improved the socio-economic status for the overwhelming majority of Black people. Wake up! As sustained by both political parties, are Black people really too stupid to grasp the "Bigger Picture"?
Given the FACT that "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, which includes White women, created and sustain the racist, discriminatory, and oppressive socio-economic status perpetually endured by the overwhelming majority of Black people, it's stupid for Black people to look to Republicans and Democrats as "saviors."
"How long are you gonna sit around begging White people to do for us when we have the power to do for ourselves?"
Minister Louis Farrakhan
Tavis Smiley's 2010 Black leadership conference, "The Black Agenda."When "Elite," politically powerful and affluent White people make Black people as rich as Oprah Winfrey, or Michael Jordan, or Berry Gordy, or Robert Johnson and so many others, and these rich Black people fail to align themselves to create dynamic business enterprises to uniquely advance the socio-economic status of other Black people and create generational wealth, then yes, these Black people, Black women, are not just Uncle Tom's, egotistical, stingy, and narcissistic, they are also stupid . . . and weak . . . cowards . . . and not deserving of any respect or idolatry.
READ - Are Black people stupid? Part 5: Blame Black People!
http://tripoetry.com/Letters/reynoldsrap-blackpeople5.htmWATCH -(THE VIDEO) Are Black people stupid? Part 5: Blame Black People!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_yx9LE6qd0READ - DO SOMETHING! Are most Black attorneys scared, or indifferent, or lazy?
http://tripoetry.com/Letters/reynoldsrap-DO-SOMETHING.htmStatistically, even before the far-left-leaning cultural shift of this country as represented by the pseudo-Blackness of Kamala Harris, the Black race was and is a doomed race! Frankly, it was just stupid for the overwhelming majority of Black women to support and vote for the extremely well-documented hypocrisy, deceitfulness and incompetence represented by Kamala Harris! An "objective assessment facts" easily predicted Donald Trump's landside victory!
READ - The Hypocrisy of electing the deceitfulness and incompetence represented by Kamala Harris!
http://tripoetry.com/Letters/reynoldsrap-trump2024H.htm
CHANGE
BLACK MEN recognized Harris' deceitfulness and incompetenceNO CHANGE
BLACK WOMEN accepted Harris' deceitfulness and incompetenceCLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO ENLARGE CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO ENLARGE The good news . . . a few Black women were actually "objective" and embraced "critical thinking."
There's some smart folks
out there with darker skin, like me!"My message to all Americans,
especially to Black Americans,
DO NOT trust Kamala Harris!"
Cheree Peoples"Black people (for Harris)
are voting to abort our bloodlines!"
Angie StantonThink about it, why wouldn't Black men, in particular, be less likely to engage in criminal activity if "elite, politically powerful and affluent" Black men and Black women BUILT Black-owned and controlled companies and economic growth specific to Black people, for Black people, in Black neighborhoods, etc. But "Uncle Tom's like President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Berry Gordy, Robert Johnson, Jay-Z and other "Black elites" refuse to do that.
THE BIG PICTURE (of "Being Black")!
#2 - "Identity Politics" versus "Black and Proud"For nearly fifty-(50) years, I've captured and I've conveyed FACTUAL data on the perpetual demise of Black people, and it's been very easy because "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people constantly track, publish and report all aspects of "Being Black" in order to succesfully control and sustain the "status quo." Keep in mind, the overwhelming majority of graphic images, illustrations, photos, audio, videos, films, etc., of Black people are owned and/or controlled by "elite" politically powerful and affluent White people. Why would politics be any different?
QUESTION: If you don't own and/or control the print, photo, audio, and video images of yourself and your race how can you possibly control the character, scope, and accuracy of the "narrative" of what you say, and what people say about YOU, which includes your "political identity"?
ANSWER: You don't.
Imagine for a moment a different kind of history.
What if Cameroon (it’s in western Africa) and other African nations had conquered and colonialized the world, including the United States, and made White people slaves.
Realizing that the dominate ethnic group defines cultural standards, imagine that the majority of White women in the U.S. have their hair processed/curled in order to look acceptable to the ruling class of Black people!
Now, flip back to reality: The overwhelming majority of Black women straighten their hair, or wear wigs, or wear extensions, or dye their hair to be more "White-like," not to be more "Black-like."
In 1966, Donyale Luna became the first black model to appear on the cover of Vogue. When Luna was asked whether or not her appearances in Hollywood films would benefit the cause of black actresses, Luna answered, "If it brings about more jobs for Mexicans, Asians, Native Americans, Africans, groovy. It could be good, it could be bad. I couldn't care less."
Lil' Kim
by Colin Bell/Retna from
"Black Beauty: A History and a Celebration," © 2000 by Ben Arogundade
Mary J. Blige,
third-Blonde on the right.
Serena
"Blondes Have More Fun"
Williams
Black and Proud?
You've got to be kidding!While researching the evolving state of Black hair care where better to look than, of course, the legendary icon for Black identity, Jet Magazine. Frankly, it makes sense to review the February 21, 2000 issue of Jet Magazine because the feature story is “The Hottest Females In Rap Music.” Rap, as I’m sure you’re aware, is yet another branch in the evolution of Black music and, given the backdrop of 1960s “Black Is Beautiful” movement, just how far have Black women come to embrace their ethnicity? The cover featured (at right):
• Eve, her hair is dyed platinum blonde;
• Lil’ Kim, appears to be wearing a platinum blonde wig;
• Foxy Brown, has her hair processed and it looks greasy; and
• Solé, with her bi-racial half-Indian origins (like Kamala Harris) has her "stringy" split-ends hair processed or, perhaps she has “good hair!”
If Jet Magazine is a mirror of Black society, then surely it must be publishing a fair representation of contemporary Black America. Therefore, looking even closer at this issue, page by page, every article, every advertisement, should provide a snap shot to how we look and how Black people define themselves. Unfortunately, the images of Black women as presented by Jet magazine bear little resemblance to the prideful “Black Is Beautiful” spirit of the 1960s.
White women let Black women down by voting for Donald Trump, really?
Clearly, the greater desire, the greater commitment for many Black women and Black men is to be more "White-like," not to be more "Black-like." Consider the evolution of Michael Jackson . . .
The Evolution of Michael "White Boy" Jackson
From ComicsTrip®, "It's a Bad Hair Day"
Psst! As validated in Chris Rock's 2009 documentary,
"Good Hair," here's a Black cultural fact and warning:
Never, never ever try to run your fingers through a Black woman's hair!Conversely . . .
At the height of the civil rights movement, taken directly from the © December 1967 issue of Ebony Magazine, the overwheming majority of Black men wore their "Natural Hair," and did so proudly to define the Black male image!
“Natural Hair” was recognized and accepted as “The New Symbol of Race Pride!” Notably, no women were featured - intentionally! As stated in the article, the (civil rights) phenomenon that caught on with thousands of Black men was not duplicated by Black women who have, “...not been free to doubt the pervasiveness of the blond-haired, blue-eyed White woman as a sex symbol.”
READ - Black Ain't Beautiful! - How Black Women Are Killing the Black Race
(with their hair, and why Black men can't do a damn thing about it!)!
http://tripoetry.com/Letters/REYNOLDSRAP/RR-PDF/How-Black-Women-F.pdfAs robustly documented in the book, "A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters," concurrent with the dawn of the White film industry, Black people also produced original films, which were produced, directed, edited, distributed by and starring Black people. These Black produced films with all-Black casts included silent films, talkies, and color films. Just like White films, the genres included westerns, mysteries, dramas, romance, action, comedies, etc. Unlike White films that intentionally limited Black actors and actresses to menial service-oriented roles such as laborers, servants, maids, etc., the stories and roles in Black films mirrorred the self-sufficiency of the Black "segregated" community, which ranged from service to professional, including doctors, lawyers, pilots, newspapermen, politicians, business owners, and civic leaders. So, why are successful Black stage and film directors, producers, actors, musicians, and music executives unable or unwilling to "pool" their collective creative and financial resources to create a Black owned and controlled theatrical enterprise comparable to Disney, Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, MGM, etc.?
In "Hollywood" ultimate control has been and continues to be primarily dictated by White Jewish men. As published in the LA Times article, How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? C'mon - "When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the (Jewish) Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah." Source: Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2008, by JOEL STEIN
In response, Black people have Black women like Caryn Elaine "(wanna-be-Jew) Whoopi Goldberg" Johnson, who uses a Jewish surname "Goldberg," to consistently bend over backwards, with or without a big smile on her face, to acquiesce to the dictates of "elite," politically powerful and affluent White men, especially Jewish men.
Why is Caryn Elaine "(wanna-be-Jew) Whoopi Goldberg" Johnson, and her skewed left-leaning political views a lousy "role model" for supporting Kamala (married to a White Jewish man) Harris for President of the United States? You do see the problem? Here's what happens when people "own" you!
Whoopi Goldberg
disciplined by White Owned media for her comments about Jewish peopleYe (Kanye West)
disciplined by White Owned media for his comments about Jewish peopleKyrie Irving
disciplined by White Owned media for his comments about Jewish peopleCLICK ABOVE PHOTO FOR INFO CLICK ABOVE PHOTO FOR INFO CLICK ABOVE PHOTO FOR INFO Smile! We own you!
Getty opens access to 30,000 images of black diaspora in UK and US
Although hosted by Black folks (DJ Envy, Charlamagne tha God and Jess Hilarious), White-owned and controlled iHeartMedia, Inc. does not broadcast The Breakfast Club to make money for Black people, or to promote an exclusive "pro-Black" agenda, but to make money to sustain White-ownership and control.
Likewise, White-owned and controlled iHeartMedia, Inc. did NOT recently create its "Black Information Network" to make money for Black people.
The newly established philanthropic business model for White-owned and controlled States Newsroom was not created to focus on the socio-economic status of Black people, but to focus solely on the "generic" status of state politics and policy, which was abandoned due to severe staffing cuts and business closures by traditional mainstream newspapers and broadcast media.
I can "name drop" many Black people I've contacted in politics, entertainment, sports, and business about building Black businesses, but "those people" are often worse than White people. Yes, worse!
In 2024, Forbes published its assessment of the richest Black and African (yes, there's a big difference) people in the world.
Sugar, Cement, Flour 13.9
Venture Capitalist 9.2
3. IT Provider 7.6 USA
Oil, Telecoms, Real Estate, Banking 6.9
5. Refining, Real Estate, Steel, oil, gas, etc. 5.9 6. Product endorsements, Hanes, Gatorade 3.2 Television, Media 2.8
8. Mineral processing 2.7 9. Music, Entertainment, etc. 2.5 10. Mobile Phone, Telecom Technologies 1.9 11. IT Software 1.9 12. Banking, Investments, etc. 1.4 13. Music, sleepwear, lingerie, etc. 1.4 14. Actor, director, producer, media mogul 1.4 15. Product endorsements, Nike, Rolex, etc. 1.3 16. Product endorsements, Nike, Rolex, etc. 1.2 Of course, it's smart for "elite," politically powerful and affluent Black people to "diversify" their financial portfolio via investments, including real estate, but . . . where's evidence of "elite," politically powerfjul and affluent Black People partnering with each other to create and grow Black neighborhoods and Black businesses, and to establish and sustain generational wealth within the Black community?
But "some" Black women want to blame White women for the failure of "elite," politically powerful and affluent Black men and Black women to "coalesce their business and economic might" to improve the socio-economic status of Black people? Well, isn't that a rather arrogant and deceitful tactic to avoid holding Black people responsible for the own failures and indifference?
(AGAIN) QUESTION: If you don't own and/or control the print, photo, audio, and video images of yourself and your race how can you possibly control the character, scope, and accuracy of the "narrative" of what you say, and what people say about YOU, which includes your "political identity"?
ANSWER: You don't.
Equally . . . disappointing, when some Black men achieve great success, they ultimately provide the absolute worst possible examples of "Being Black." Instead of using their creative and business acumen for the benefit of others, especially to improve the socio-economic status of Black people, all Black narcissists have the same "look and feel," because they value: wealth; self-indulgence; sexual perversion; fidelity (as Uncle Tom's) to "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people; and dictating their power and vindictiveness over the helpless, especially over Black people they deem inferior.
Sean "P Diddy" Combs Jonathan Majors R. Kelly Bill Cosby Jussie Smollett Rev. Wayne M. Reynolds Everyone pictured above has committed adultery, or physical abuse upon women or men or children, or engaged in illegal acts of sexual perversion, or worse! When making decisions its always been my practice to embrace FACTS, to value intellect over emotion, and I realize many people have great difficulty with such thinking. My mother and father taught me to engage "critical thinking" and they appreciated my insightful assessments. For example, prior to the deaths of Michael Jackson and Prince I told my father that, based on the lifestyles and deaths of entertainers of similar wealth and popularity, both Michal Jackson and Prince would not live past 50-years-of-age. Yep, I was right, because when you see a train coming down the tracks (full of drugs, lousy personal relationships, religious fanaticism, etc.), and you refuse to get out of the way, the train will kill you! Yes, race is important, but "common sense" is equally if not more important. Although those White-owned and White-controlled Republican and Democratic "political trains" have NEVER improved the socio-economic status for the overwhelming majority of Black people, NEVERTHELESS, most Black people, and especially Black women continue to blindly ride in Republican and Democratic "political trains" that have NEVER arrived to the depot of "Social and Economic Justice."
THE BIG PICTURE (of "Being Black")!
#3 - Black women and Black men are no longer on the same page.With regard to "common sense," as a healthy heterosexual Black man I'm "statistically" (intellectually, physically, sexually) far more likely to desire and to have a relationship with a Black woman than a woman of another race, but alas, at best, that's a ridiculous pipe dream. I'm not being negative; just conveying a factual assessment of the current and future status of Black heterosexual relationships.
As a career athlete in track and field, it's disappointing the overwhelming majority of Black women I encounter, even those who are younger or older than my age demographic are morbidly overweight or obese. As validated by the CDC, 82.1% of all Black women over 30 years of age are morbidly overweight or obese. For decades the life expectancy of Black women (currently 74.8 years) and Black men (currently 66.7 years) has continued to drop; and in some cities there are 6-to-10 single and available Black women for every single and available Black man. These "thick," morbidly overweight, BBW, and obese Black women consistently attack and ridicule me for having disciple and commitment to maintain my personal fitness (http://www.reynos.com/Resume/Track/awards.htm).
FACTS I've experienced:
1. Throughout the past 45 years, I've consistently trained every week on Mondays, Wednesday, and Saturdays on a 400 meter track at a local high school or college in metro Chicago, Dallas, Denver, or Omaha OR I've competed during the indoor or outdoor season at local, state, or national track and field championships, and I've NEVER seen or met an "eligible" Black woman of my age "demographic" walking, running, or competing. Conversely, except at track meets, I've only seen 2 or 3 Black men at locations where I consistently train.
2. Throughout the past 30 years, as a single Black man, I've roller-skated typically at Midnight Rambles or on Sunday nights in metro Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Detroit, Atlanta, San Diego, and only TWICE did I encounter a BLACK woman of my age "demographic" who was fit, able to actually skate, and NOT obese. Conversely, the few Black men in my demographic who come out to roll are not obese.
3. Throughout the past 30 years, as a single Black man, I've cycled during the spring, summer and fall in metro Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Omaha and other cities, and I've NEVER encountered a BLACK woman or Black man of my age "demographic" cycling on a bike path.
The overwhelming majority of Black women have made themselves "unattractive, undesirable, and unavailable" to Black men who value being "fit and healthy" and "Black and Proud" and "common sense!"
READ - No, Women Are Not the Men They Wanted To Marry!
http://www.tripoetry.com/Writing/Marriage/Relationships.htm#blackrelationshipsREAD - WHY ARE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BLACK WOMEN, SO FAT?
http://tripoetry.com/Letters/reynoldsrap-obese.htmREAD - Just How Obese will Whoopi Goldberg Become? Key word: Intervention!
http://tripoetry.com/Letters/reynoldsrap-whoopi.htm
If Black people truly resent the constant decline in the health of the Black race, then it’s incumbent upon “responsible Black men and women” to lead by example.
IF BLACK PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ALLOW THE CONSTANT PROMOTION OF NEGATIVE IMAGES OF BLACK PEOPLE, then they have no one to blame but themselves for the decline of the Black race. It’s incumbent upon “responsible Black men and women” to identify the hypocrisy of so-called Black intellectuals, athletes, politicians, entertainers, etc. (the Oprah Winfrey paradox), who allow themselves to be perpetually "branded" as negative examples of Blackness:
1. as the morbidly overweight and obese, big titty, loud-mouth whining and complaining “Aunt Jemima-esque” Black woman (i.e., 82.1% of Black women will see this reflection when they look in a mirror);
2. as the wig-wearing, extension-wearing, receding hairline, hair-falling-out, wanna-have-that-White-girl-hair-flip clone, instead of being Black and proud and wearing her hair naturally;
3. as the lazy, uneducated, unemployed, incarcerated, and drug-using Black man;
4. as the overtly religious Black woman and/or Black man;
5. as the unmarried Black woman with at least 3 or more children from two or more fathers, and a perennial "gold digger";
6. as the big dick, unemployed Black man living-off of an employed Black woman or employed White woman; and
7. as the uneducated, overweight, unhealthy, poorly-speaking Black man or Black woman.Do you get it?
2016-2018 Black people remain the fattest and most unhealthy
CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE FOR INFORMATION
CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE FOR INFORMATIONDon't forget, historically, during and after slavery, Black people have always had the worst health and fitness, because they ate the scraps of the White slave owner (pig feet, chitterlings, fish heads, chicken feet, etc.), consumed food cooked in grease, and by law, policy, or cultural convention were prohibited access to health care, and much of these conditions remain in effect today! Equally disappointing, many Black women make "excuses" for their obesity, and trivialize their obesity, and arrogantly assail men as misogynistic for refusing to "celebrate" their obesity. As consistently validated by both the CDC and private sector research, "thick" Black women exist only as a "preview" to diabetes, breast cancer, heart disease and perpetually increasing cost of health care.
Do you really, really think men, without regard to race, are supposed to be
attracted to and "celebrate" this . . . evolution . . . of Black femininity, really?Aretha Franklin in 1961 Aretha Franklin in 2001
Fortunately, prior to her death on August 16, 2018
(at only aged 76 years of age, Aretha went from
2008 2015 Whoopi Goldberg in 1986 Whoopi Goldberg in 2021 OPRAH WINFREY MO'NIQUE GABOUREY SIDIBE OCTAVIA SPENCER Should Black women continue to accept being "BRANDED" in the status quo of perpetual obesity, and linger in a constant state of declining mediocrity?
Study finds Blacks
are the most obese groupAll public and private sector research studies reveal the same fact-based conclusions - the overwhelming majority of Black women are morbidly overweight or "thick," obese, BBW, FAT, etc. Excluding Oprah Winfrey, there are many Black women in the public media who consistently maintain a healthy and fit physique. Plus, as they gotten older, the absence of wrinkles makes them look ever youthful. As the saying goes . . .
Given that 82.1% of adult Black women are morbidly overweight or obese, why would an eligible, attractive, educated, physically fit, and employed Black man find a Black woman desirable?? Why??? That’s right they don’t, because 82.1% of Black women (the overwhelming majority) have made themselves unattractive, undesirable. Likewise, the same can be said, but to a lesser degree of “eligible” Black men (if you can find one due to the extremely high rates of state-sanctioned unemployment, incarceration, suicide, homicide, etc.).
IN SUMMARY, WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE OR ETHNICITY, AN ENLIGHTENED, HEALTH CONSCIOUS MAN WILL LIKELY RESENT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT AS DESIRABLE THE IMAGES OF MORBIDLY OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE BLACK WOMEN. Accordingly, eligible Black men, the few that do exist, typically do not prioritize their search for a lover or wife to be a Black woman, because it doesn't make sense to do so. Why are so many, many Black women so, so . . .Delusional? Don't be "delusional."
White-owned media perpetually and primarily profile Black women as big-breasted, big lips, morbidly obese, loud-mouth "mammies," or an Aunt Jemima, or sluts.
As represented by the following forty-two-(42) images of Black actresses, of course, there are millions of smart, physically fit, and beautiful Black women throughout the United States and around the world. However, Black women have "allowed" themselves to primarily be "branded" by both White people and Black people as morbidly overweight or "thick," obese, BBW, FAT, etc. Just look at how Disney "brands" Black women!
CLICK ABOVE PHOTO TO ENLARGE. Click the following links to read film reviews of Disney's racist films, "Soul" and "Black Panther."
That right, the overwhelming majority of Black men are just as unhealthy and undesirable. As reported by the CDC, age-adjusted data captured from 2015 to 2018 for persons 20 years of age and over with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25 or greater revealed 70.9 percent of Black men as morbidly overweight or obese, compared to 76 percent of non-Hispanic White men.
Cedric the EntertainerIMAGES OF MORBIDLY OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE BLACK WOMEN ARE CONSTANTLY BEING PROMOTED AS ACCEPTABLE AND DESIRABLE.
Conversely, we don’t see nearly as many “promotional spots” celebrating the “beauty” of morbidly overweight and obese Black men . . . because it’s NOT beautiful, DAH!OBSERVATION: If a man is unable to look down and see his penis, because his stomach is blocking his view, he's OBESE!
If a woman, who's not pregnant, looks down between your breasts and she's unable to see her pubic hair because her gut is blocking her view - she's OBESE."The best way to hate a nigger . . .
is to hate him before he was born." MAAFA 21
Blame White women for the failures of Black women?
What is the ideal "role model" for the . . . personification . . . of this tactic?For more information, go to: http://ashleighshackelford.com Frankly, I literally don't care if a woman runs, skates, or cycles, but only that Black women care enough about their own health and fitness to VALIDATE she is intellectually, physically, and sexually competent, proficient, and desirable. Yes, as a healthy heterosexual Black man I'm "programmed" to be attracted to a woman's "sexuality," but a "thick" Black woman does not represent a healthy mind and body. As again consistently validated by both the CDC and private sector research, "thick," morbidly overweight, BBW, and obese Black women exist only as a "preview" to diabetes, breast cancer, heart disease and perpetually increasing cost of health care, and such women, especially single Black women with children from multiple fathers and with or without the debt burden of a college education and employed, are NOT particularly desirable as "marriage material."
How Does Obesity Affect Black People?
Black women have the highest rates of obesity or being overweight compared to other groups in the United States. About 4 out of 5 Black women are morbidly overweight or obese.
In 2018, non-Hispanic Blacks were 1.3 times more likely to be obese as compared to non-Hispanic whites.
In 2018, Black women were 50 percent more likely to be obese than non-Hispanic white women.
From 2015-2018, non-Hispanic Black females were 2.3 times more likely to be overweight as compared to non-Hispanic white females.
People who are overweight are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, high levels of blood fats, diabetes and LDL cholesterol – all risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
In 2018, Black people were 20 percent less likely to engage in active physical activity as compared to non-Hispanic whites.
. . . and where do the majority of Black people still live?
Plus, it's damn arrogant for Black women to considerable themselves "desirable," when they lack the discipline and commitment and self-respect to maintain their own health and fitness. Given that many if not most Black women rant about their "personal relationship with God," these morbidly overweight and obese Black women are blatant hypocrites for their FAILURE to adhere to the inspired words of God as defined in scripture:
I CORINTHIANS 6:19-20 (NKJV)
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.Robust research from the CDC and private sector organizations consistently validates obese people not only move slower, but they actually "think and reason" slower than people who are not obese. The majority of Black women do not marry men of other races and most Black women tend to marry later in life, but by then the availability of "eligible" Black men is rather paltry due to high mortality of Black infants and men, failure to graduate from high school and college, extremely high rates of incarceration, high rates of unemployment, etc. That's right, many Black men, but not nearly as many as Black women, have made themselves "undesirable" too!
THE BIG PICTURE (of "Being Black")!
#4 - Stop "pointing fingers" at White women.As you stated in your video, not all White women are against Black women.
QUESTION: Do I personally excuse, forgive, or forget the horrendous things "some" White women have done to Black people, especially to Black men, throughout the entire history of the United States of America?
ANSWER: HELL NO!
To be clear, throughout my editorials, as consistently as possible, when I identify people immediately responsible for the enslavement, lynching, murder and perpetual oppression and discrimination of Black people and other minorities I use the following stock phrase, "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, primarily White men," which is validated with the following exhibit I produced:
CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO ENLARGEThroughout U.S. history, thousands . . . even millions of White women have supported, championed civil rights for Black people. You know the phrase, "One bad apple does not spoil the whole bunch," is also true of anyone from any racial group or gender or sexual preference or educational status or athleticism or whatever. Blanket "generalities" do not apply when assessing people, because "we" humans, including Black people, are not monolithic. You do remember, don't you, Betty White, Petula Clark, Marilyn Monroe, etc.?
Arthur Duncan on The Betty White Show (1954) | Tap Dance"[Marilyn] contacted the owners of the Mocambo, a top Sunset Strip nightclub, and persuaded them to hire Fitzgerald for a week," Banner wrote. "Marilyn promised to be in the front row every night and to take friends with her.
According to Dorothy Dandridge, however, the real problem with Fitzgerald at that time was not that she was African-American but that she was overweight, without much sex appeal. "Singing at the Mocambo was a turning point in Fitzgerald's career. With a major nightclub on her resume, she was no longer relegated to small clubs."
Before her own death in 1996, Fitzgerald credited Monroe for helping boost her career. "I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt… she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night," she once told reporters. Monroe did indeed sit front row at Mocambo for every night Fitzgerald performed that week in 1955.
Her star power attracted a frenzy of people to the club, the jazz singer recalled. "She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn's superstar status – that the press would go wild," she continued. "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."
Ella Fitzgerald: I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Live)
Bruselas, Bélgica, 1957
56 Years Ago, White Woman Touching a Black Man on TV Caused a National Commotion
During this historic performance, Petula Clark held onto Harry Belafonte's arm. However, the director requested them to redo the scene by standing apart after a representative from the sponsor witnessed the original take and demanded it to be reshot due to concerns that showing a white woman touching a black man could negatively impact car sales in the South, where the company sold cars. Clark and her husband, Claude Wolff, the show's executive producer, were outraged by this request and instructed the director to erase all the retakes except for the original one, ensuring that it would be the only version broadcast.
Harry Belafonte & Petula Clark - On The Path of Glory (Live) THE BIG PICTURE (of "Being Black")!
#5 - Love yourself and love "Being Black."
Abraham Lincoln Reynolds, III
1935 - 2012 (77 years)
Suicide by firearm
December 15, 2012Published in 1994, “Do Black Women Hate Black Men” is the controversial and intriguing title of A.L. Reynolds’ assessment of contemporary relationships between Black men and women. While thumbing through a February 21, 2000 issue of Jet Magazine, the answer to Reynolds’ question is blatantly evident. No, Black women don’t hate Black men. More accurately, Black women - who may not realize it - hate themselves, and this self-hatred is killing the Black race; and Black men who refuse to hold themselves and Black women mutually responsible only permeate dysfunctional relationships.
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What I wrote
when I was 9,
in 1963What I wrote when I was 19, in 1973 What I wrote when I was 64, in 2017 Fighting for the sovereignty and respect of Black men is the other side of the same coin that flips to suicide! Leading Causes of Death-Non-Hispanic black Males United States, 2017 | Health Equity | CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2017/nonhispanic-black/index.htm)
1. Suicide is the #3 cause of death for Black males between 1 and 19, homicide is #1;
2. Suicide is the #4 cause of death for Black males between 20 and 44, and homicide is #1.
THE BIG PICTURE (of "Being Black")!
#6 - Black women and Black men must stop being "delusional!"Don't ignore the past, present, and the foreseeable future!
As researched by Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Kuhn, and Schularick in their March 8, 2021 report, “The Racial Wealth Gap, 1860 - 2020,” the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites has never been abated, has only increased significantly.
Most importantly, if present trends in the data continue, the racial wealth gap is headed to a steady state with average White wealth at least five times greater than average Black wealth - even through 2260!
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CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD REPORTStop being "Delusional?"
It does more harm than good to value a Black woman's "obesity," lack of fitness, and unhealthiness as sexually desirable. "Thick" Black women exist only as a "preview" to diabetes, breast cancer, heart disease and the perpetually increasing cost of health care.Nothing changes the status quo of "White flight" from "people of color."
Nothing changes the status quo of "White flight" from "people of color."
For the past 20 years or more, no less than 25% of all Black marriages were to a partner of another race, and since Black men and women are not collectively making themselves more desirable to each other, there’s absolutely no reason for the increase of interracial marriages to diminish. Get it?
So, when you talk about Black women, please convey the "Big Picture," because the election results had less to do with White women, but everything to do with:
1. Black people refusing to learn from the past:
Systemic Racism and Systemic Sexism Eudures
http://tripoetry.com/Letters/reynoldsrap-systemic.htm
2. Black people, especially Black women, refusing to abandon identity politics;
3. Black people, especially Black women, refusing to abandon the Democratic and Republican parties;
4. Black people refusing to consider the "Big Picture" of what "Being Black" actually means: http://www.tripoetry.com/Black.htm
Do the math (https://www.higherheightsforamericapac.org/by-the-numbers/):
> 96% of Black women voted for Barack Obamas in 2008 and 2012; then
> 94% of Black women voted for Hilary Clinton in 2016; then
> 90% of Black women voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020.
So, when it came to voting for the lessor of two evils, of course, President Trump won, because many Black women (and Black men) value "common sense" over useless political patronage.
WHAT YOU'RE NOT CHANGING,
YOU'RE CHOSING!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Curry White women? Comedian Paul Mooney said this . . . A white woman was making a chocolate cake.
She turned her back, her little boy took the chocolate and rubbed it all over his face and said,
"Look mommy, I'm black!" She slapped the shit out of him and said, "Go tell your father what you did."
He goes to his father and said, "Look daddy I'm black!"
He took his belt and beat his ass." Now, go tell your grandfather.""Look grandpa I'm black!"
He took a switch out and beat his ass. "Go back to your mama."
His mother said, "What did you learn today?"
"I learned that I've been black for five minutes and already hate you white motherfuckers!Paul Mooney
In the wake of your laughter, please be very serious about this:
"We have the power of numbers, the power of organization, and the power of spirit. Let me explain what I mean. Sixteen million people are a force to be reckoned with, and indeed there are many nations in the U.N. whose numbers are less."
Paul Robeson
Source: "Here I Stand" © 1958 by Paul Robeson
(Legendary Black American athlete, bass baritone concert artist,
stage and film actor, and political activist), page 92, fifth paragraph
"How long are you gonna sit around begging White people to do for us when we have the power to do for ourselves?"
Minister Louis Farrakhan
Integration doesn't mean a
damn thing unless you OWN it!™
Trip Reynolds
Integration into White society has NOT and will NOT end the perpetual racism and oppression used by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people against Black people.
Muhammad Ali intervied by David Frost in 1974
Blame White women for . . . whatever? Nope. No way.
Instead, blame Black women, your peers, for refusing to objectively evolve their thinking, for refusing to grasp the "Big Picture" of what "Being Black" means. Our "Blackness" has absolutely nothing to do with being a Republican or Democrat, because these White-owned and White-controlled political organizations have NEVER improved the socio-economic status for the overwhelming majority of Black people. Wake up!
Albert Einstein said it so clearly, “Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Black women and Black men keep doing the same things over and over again, generation after generation. When you see a train (Black people) coming down the tracks constantly characterized by ineptness, division, self-hatred, failed personal relationships, religious fanaticism, etc., and you refuse to get out of the way, to adopt a new paradigm - the train will kill you!Again, if any Black women or Black men would like to respond to this or any editorial, as always . . . I welcome your feedback.
Trip Reynolds
trip.reynolds@yahoo.com
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