Wake Up my Family…

My Brothers and Sisters,

The “editorial opinion” below was taken from the below link on craigslist.org. Apparently, though skewed opinion is floating around the internet and it is truly appalling to me. Being a black man married to a beautiful Nigerian woman of dark complexion and one who has been raised by a beautiful black American single mother and he who has 2 beautiful sisters find this testimonial to be false and extremely crass.

Unfortunately, due to the immense proportion of our sistren in the adult industry, the amount of single mothers in our culture and the amount of our brethren who date “outside” our culture, could there be any truth to this madness?

Here is the link and the quote. Please let me know what you think.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/rnr/642308315.html

“There are very few attractive black women to begin with. I am talking about truly black, not red bone or Dalmatians. I mean 90% of the women are bald, have skin issues, have chicken legs with cottage cheese thighs. Very few black women actually look good with a fat ass. The average black woman has to work 10 times harder to look presentable. Otherwise they look like they got dipped into Crisco and just woke up. There is nothing special about a black woman, unless you have a fetish for them.
It may sound racist but even their own males don’t find them attractive. The common answer to that is well black woman are strong and don’t put up with shit. No the real answer is that black women are just not attractive to males, of any race.”

 

R&B Artist Sean Levert Dead

I have some sad news…Sean Levert, R&B Singer of “Levert” fame, son of the O’Jays Eddie Levert, and brother of the Late Gerald Levert has passed away in a Cleveland Area hospital. He was sent there late Sunday night from the County Jail where he was serving time for non-payment of Child Support. Reportedly he was 39. Very sad, especially since his brother Gerald just passed away in 2006.

Reference: UPI

Racism makes Black People sick. No, Really.

There’s a new article on the Newsweek website saying something that black folks have known for a long time. Racism is bad for your health. According to Dr. Dean Ornish, studies show that African-Americans in some cases are given less options for treatment than Whites when they go to the doctor, causing us to be at higher risk for complications from serious health problems.

That’s not the whole story though, The Doctor also says that discrimination, like on the workplace for example, has adverse physical affects on African-Americans, with one study connecting the resulting stress with higher levels of Breast Cancer in Black women. This is a very interesting article, a must read in my opinion.

What do you think about the effects of racism on health? Speak out!