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How could my experience and that of so many other black women be so different from the official statistics? I wanted to find out — so I started digging. Because so many news reports repeat the 70 percent figure without citing a source, I went straight to the mother lode of demographic data: the U.S. Census. And what I found was shocking: While, according to 2009 data, it’s true that 70.5 percent of black women were never married compared with 45 percent of white women, look closer and you’ll see that the figure pertains only to women between the ages of 25 and 29. Not that surprising, right? Researching further, I found another U.S. Census statistic that may have sparked the frenzy. According to the 2009 data, only 30 percent of black women were married — but the data includes every female from 15 years old up to 90-somethings. So … my ba—By cousin and grandmother are single. Is that really a crisis?
– Race and Relationships - Interracial Relationships - Marie Claire (via npr)(via thecocoatype)
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Sassy Sassy. <3 him!
I love my president.
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Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”
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yea… @T_Barbs @nealcarter @jaybee766 hahaha.
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Love this response. Shit we are all too black for.
I NEED YOUR HELP!
I posted this to my wall and got this response:
“ Isn’t this as equally stereotypical and demeaning as all of those other videos/ NJ state maps you’ve been so upset about in the past? Or is it ok to be stereotypical about white people? You’re right that it’s funny, but it’s also offensive. Maybe not personally offiensive, but I just think it goes against everything you seem to stand for. “
How to respond….GO!
Responding to the pleas of racist white folk who are so caught up in their hegemonic delusion that they cannot recognize the irony in their anger over a black woman humorously and graciously pointing out the comedy that is present in their own racist and ignorant stereotypes of black people is beyond all of us. If they cannot realize that they are offended by a black woman who is, while using real life statements that many of us heard, actually pointing out to them how their racism seeps into everyday conversation and because we are unable to respond quickly enough, goes unchecked, then those those white people are best left uneducated. There ain’t enough patience in the world that we have that will allow us to walk a white person through why the above-named video isn’t actually racist but a biting, constructive, tongue-in-cheek mockery of THEIR racism. What this look like? Hooked the FUCK on Phonics? Don’t come for us. We have better things to do.
We too black for this shit.
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Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don’t want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
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YES. Yes. 1000000X yes.
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