There were no facts anywhere in that article.
Maybe if you didn't have that " this is why most black women have trouble finding a black man" mentality they wouldn't
Maybe I'm an enlightened male, who happens to be black and frustrated with seeing so many females including my own family members struggling with relationships due to the behavioral epidemic of hoodrat culture. Every piece of information I've sourced is from black females
themselves, so how is it
MY mentality? I'm a strong man, not an enabler. Kissing a woman's ass when she's in the wrong not only destroys her, it destroys YOU as man and essentially the community you come from.
As Melissa Ortiz stated, other communities don't have the highest rate of herpes and no husband, or boyfriend. I'm concerned about my community and my family tree becoming part of these statistics. So when I have the opportunity to share useful information, I do so.
Weak people get angry when you throw cold water in their face, and unfortunately we gotta stop having a blind loyalty to stupid women, just because they're black.
Because it isn't doing anything but weakening the community. And when strong men have to venture outside of their place of origin for a suitable mate, he too becomes weaker and so does the community from which he came because he takes his resources with him. It's deeper than internet banter, it's survival.
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 — Seroprevalence Among Non-Hispanic Whites and Non-Hispanic Blacks by Sex and Age Group, National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1988–1994, 1999–2002, 2003–2006, and 2007–2010
Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate
Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate
One recent day at Dr. Natalie Carroll's OBGYN practice, located inside a lowincome apartment complex tucked between a gas station and a freeway, 12 pregnant black women come for consultations. Some bring their children or their mothers. Only one brings a husband.
Things move slowly here. Women sit shouldertoshoulder in the narrow waiting room, sometimes for more than an hour. Carroll does not rush her mothers in and out. She wants her babies born as healthy as possible, so Carroll spends time talking to the mothers about how they should care for themselves, what she expects them to do — and why they need to get married.
Seventy two percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today, according to government statistics. This number is inseparable from the work of Carroll, an obstetrician who has dedicated her 40year career to helping black women.
"The girls don't think they have to get married. I tell them children deserve a mama and a daddy. They really do," Carroll says from behind the desk of her office, which has cushioned pinkandgreen armchairs, bars on the windows, and a wooden "LOVE" carving between two African figurines. Diamonds circle Carroll's ring finger.
As the issue of black unwed parenthood inches into public discourse, Carroll is among the few speaking boldly about it. And as a black woman who has brought thousands of babies into the world, who has sacrificed income to serve Houston's poor, Carroll is among the few whom black women will actually listen to.
"A mama can't give it all. And neither can a daddy, not by themselves," Carroll says. "Part of the reason is because you can only give that which you have. A mother cannot give all that a man can give. A truly involved father figure offers more fullness to a child's life." Statistics show just what that fullness means.
Children of unmarried mothers of any race are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children out of wedlock. The black community's 72 percent rate eclipses that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available.
The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent. This issue entered the public consciousness in 1965, when a now famous government report by future senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan described a "tangle of pathology" among blacks that fed a 24 percent black "illegitimacy" rate. The white rate then was 4 percent.
Many accused Moynihan, who was white, of "blaming the victim:" of saying that black behavior, not racism, was the main cause of black problems. That dynamic persists. Most talk about the 72 percent has come from conservative circles; when influential blacks like Bill Cosby have spoken out about it, they have been all but shouted down by liberals saying that a lack of equal education and opportunity are the true root of the problem.
'Nobody talks about it' Even in black churches, "nobody talks about it," Carroll says. "It's like some big secret." But there are signs of change, of discussion and debate within and outside the black community on how to address the growing problem.
Research has increased into links between behavior and poverty, scholars say. Historically black Hampton University recently launched a National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting. There is a Marry Your Baby Daddy Day, founded by a black woman who was left at the altar, and a Black Marriage Day, which aims "to make healthy marriages the norm rather than the exception."
In September, Princeton University and the liberal Brookings Institution released a collection of "Fragile Families" reports on unwed parents. And an online movement called "No Wedding No Womb" ignited a fierce debate that included strong opposition from many black women