Video Response: Why have Black Men forsaken Black Women???

I like this video, because it shows a Black woman expressing herself thru the medium of dance and I think more Black women should feel free to define themselves freeing themselves from stereotypes and limitations that outside entities place on us. The panel says this Black woman is brillant so this is also how I feel about myself!

Hey Juice--

You NAILED it!!!

A beautiful woman is most of all, HERSELF!!!

She thinks for herself and she knows her own mind. That is the source of her strength. She is confident and independent.

It reminds me so much of another strong-minded, independent AFrican-American woman--the incomprable ZORA NEALE HURSTON.

Here is what she wrote in a 1928 essay titled HOW IT FEELS TO BE COLORED ME.

“I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within.”


“At certain times I have no race. I am ME…The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.”


“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against. But it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company?”







HOW IT FEELS TO BE COLORED ME (1928)

“I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within.”


“At certain times I have no race. I am ME…The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.”


“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against. But it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company?”

@ Brother Rich,
[“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against. But it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company?”]


Thank you so much for the quote from Hurston and it is exactly what I feel about being discrimination due to s*x, race, age, class that all to often greet me at the door of life. I remember a beautiful affirmation I'd say daily in my twenty-somethings which really embodied who I was becoming at that time. It goes like this:

My Declaration of Self-Esteem
by Virginia Satir



I AM ME


In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me
Everything that comes out of me is authentically me
Because I alone chose it - I own everything about me
My body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
Whether they be to others or to myself - I own my fanatasies,
My dreams, my hopes, my fears - I own all my triumphs and
Successes, all my failures and mistakes Because I own all of
Me, I can become intimately acquainted with me - by so doing
I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts - I know
There are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other
Aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am
Friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously
And hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles
And for ways to find out more about me - However I
Look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever
I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically
Me - If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought
And felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is
Unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that
Which I discarded - I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be
Productive to make sense and order out of the world of
People and things outside of me - I own me, and
therefore I can engineer me - I am me and


I AM OKAY


http://www.kalimunro.com/declaration-of-se...

The like your self esteem declaration, I went to the website and found it very interesting.

Thanks Sister Helen.

Hello to All,

To begin with, what would validate Mrs. Jen argument is a video other than, ignorant Black woman since Mrs. Jen is Black, and her point is that a Black woman has the right to be any man’s woman regardless of race.

I contend that only an ignorant Black woman would have this concept. Perhaps, if Mrs. Jen had a video of an average intelligent Korean woman saying that she could belong to any man regardless of his race then she would have a strong point to stand on against me. But, I know an intelligent Korean woman would say that she belongs to a Korean man. Only an ignorant Black woman would think as Mrs. Jen does and that is precisely how the Hip-Hop rapper in the video thinks, am I right.

Black Americans talk about unity, yet Black Americans thinks against themselves, am I right. Inadvertently we teach our stupidity and ignorance to our children. Consequentially, the ignorance and stupidity is transferred from generation to generation. However, it is ending. Everything that I say is going to happen.

Now, what is bewildering to me is that Black men would agree with Mrs. Jen as Mr. Clark does. Obviously, this tells me as I have been saying all along that my race is practically the dumbest race on God good earth today. We, desperately need the help of God and guess what, we have God help through me. Not all of you may make it but your grand and great grandchildren are going to make it into our sovereign country.

Let me present this scenario. Supposing you looked, out over the plains and saw thousands of horses. When you got up on them, you saw that they are not all the same. Some are Pintos, Mustangs, Clydesdale, etc.

As ignorant, as you all present yourselves to be I am sure you all would not have common sense enough to categorize those horses. You all would more than likely see no difference in a Mustang and a Clydesdale and as a result group a female Clydesdale with a Pinto.

My poor ignorant Black people. The Black woman has not the first sense to know that her mate should be a Black man and the Black man is triple ignorant to agree that she could belong to any man of any race. I have never witnessed such profound ignorance in my life.

So, if there were all Black women on earth Black men are ****-out of luck, right.

What say you all?

Sister Cynthia where is your comment? I thought I had a email saying you replied this blog. Oh well repost it so I can read from you.