All Comments on 'Black Men & Black Women United'

It is called africa

Have fucked up africa, and every major city in america, our jails are full and your going to make something better. That will be a first in the history of blacks, anytime anywhere you have improved anything.

Black men and black women could focus less on being Black and more on being American.

Just a thought.

-- KK in Texas

[What was it that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said? Something about "judge not a man by the color of his skin, but rather by the content of his character". Wouldn't that be a two-way street?]

Unless you go up to every single black man or woman that has been hurt by the opposite gender, DO NOT assume you know the reasons behind their anger. My parents were married for 32 years before my mom died and my dad was an asshole before she died. You're always quick to make assumptions about everyone and everything, especially a black woman. Why don't you do some research about WHY they are upset in the first place.

Who Gives a Tiny Rat's Ass?

If I wanted to read shit like this I'd go on moon-bat board some place.

Oh Samuel Samuel, at some points you speak from the heart, bringing memories from your childhood, speaking of strong loving relations, than you morph into the lecturing mode and I am totally loosing you. Had Obama followed your self inflicted segregationist perspective - the whole world hates us - mind set, he would have never run for an office to begin with. <P>

You say you are not old enough to remember the 60's, yet in some respects you speal like a much older person, a person who grew in the boomer generation. Most younger people accept inter racial relations and other races not on the basis of supremacy or inferiority but just as another quality any person carries with him and her. The proof: Obama, of the post boomer generation was elected by black whites and hispanics.

Samuel, I think it’s time to take some of the energy you put on calling others to change (mostly exclusively aimed at black people as if the rest are non entities) and invest in trying to change yourself –which is the hardest thing of all. Start with trying to change your outdated views. Time to believe in change for a simple reason – it happened! Time for a paradigm shift, and I realize that this is a difficult task. I hope (and I say that with no malice) that you can overcome any emotional difficulties in making this transition. Maybe there are no more enemies behind every corner. Maybe by now, the worst enemy is the one that is left in our own minds, that is the part which refuses to acknowledge the changes in the world. <P>

How about love and solidarity across the human race? How about throwing away all haters of all creeds and colors? We shall always have endless beautiful cultures languages and traditions they should be nourished and respected, but that should not come in the way of getting together for causes that unite us all as human beings! Plus we desperately need to be together for real hardships still ahead of us.

Samuelx, You wrote something that I could actually read and I liked it very much. While there will always be haters, I have to say that unity between black men and women would be nice, but there is a deep division between us that will be hard to bridge. It is my hope that all humans could stop seeing skin color the fact of the matter is that will not happen.

You are right though black men and women belong together. There is a connection that can be beautiful, and powerful. Keep writing like this and I will continue to read, but that other stuff is a bit too much for me to get into.