The gender issue in the Black community must be addressed openly and honestly because it is the Black male-female relationship that will determine the future of our existence as a people here in America and around the Diaspora.

We all have our faults, but a most noticeable one becomes Black women and their strive for the Euro-look. Not to exclude black men, but pictures speak louder than words. Join in the discussion below that addresses this very issue.

Brotha
Black women have Sold Out!

Black men invented the Afro, but black women wanted to look white!

The evidence of Black women's treason to Black men and the "Black is Beautiful" Movement is as obvious as the color of her fake blonde hair.

Black women spend billions of dollars trying to look like a white woman, yet it was Black men who invented the Afro for her to wear.

Black women are the ones responsible for keeping Black self-hatred alive, but always remember that it was Black women who ran off with white feminist, not Black men.

Sista
Black women are victims of the same conditioning Black men are. Let's be honest here, we live in a world that devalues the Black woman's beauty and uplifts that of Caucasians women. Believe it or not, Black women do everything they do to attract Black men, from straightening our hair to bleaching our skin.

We know that their is a race to see who can land the few available Black men out there and we are competing with the J-Lo's, the Britney's and the Lucy Lui's. Black women are scared. Scared of ending up alone with no husband's or fathers for their children.

Anotha Sista
"No one can deny that black women spend lots of money and lots of time on their hair. It is becoming very obvious that black women spend their money on the wrong things.

The 1970s Women's Liberation movement did indeed give black women the freedom they asked for, but now she is lost like the little girl in the Wizard of Oz.

Black women have failed to realize: FREEDOM AIN'T FREE!

Instead of making the racist Koreans rich, black women should be building a black nation for her sons to inherit!"

Brotha Again
The white feminists have coached black women for over thirty years, and Ophra Winfrey remains the Black woman's coach on how to be successful without a "burdensome" Black man "Holding you down."

The feminists have taught Black women to seek:

1. Freedom from men and men telling women what to do
2. Independence from men and the "authority" of men
3. Birth control to stop being "egg donors" for men
4. A career to complete with men for jobs and education
5. Single motherhood to avoid depending upon a man to raise a family

Afromerica

Historically, the brother makes sense because the feminist movement not only influenced white women, but made its way into the minds of our sisters, who sought redemption from Black men who could not afford to give them what white women were getting from their husbands. But history and statistics showed then and continue to show now, that the best jobs always went to white males.

However, The Black women who have offered their hearts and minds to brothers only to be abused and mistreated have restored the most popular alternative in life, though that life may have caused the breakdown of the Black family structure. Black men must acknowledge that there are problems we face as a community and should never forget that we are all in this together.

Unfortunately, society has gone the way of beauty and materialism and it will be difficult to regain a sense of self and identity when all around you have lost theirs. The definition of beauty belongs to the seer, not the one being seen. The sisters are loved, but if there is not enough realness in the sister, they cannot expect real love.

© 2005 by Afromerica