Michelle with her man in the early days.
A writer for The Root by the name of Jeneé Desmond-Harris recently wrote an editorial entitled, “What Single Women Can Learn from Michelle”. The title uses ”what single women can learn,” but it’s really concentrating on the dismal marriage statistics in the black community and if black women are looking to marry the man of their dreams they need to follow the example of Michelle Obama.
The thing that black women aren’t getting is that while trying to find Mr. Right, they use the “packaging” too much as a deal breaker. He’s short, he’s tall, he’s bald, he’s too hairy, he’s dumpy, his ears stick out too much. And what she points out here is that if Michelle would have said, “Wooooo girl, did you see those ears?” We may not know either the President or her today because a woman is detrimental to a man’s progress. The sheer translation of it all is, “Why can’t black women drop the fairytale and look for the attributes they so desperately want, in his soul?”
Read Mrs. Desmond-Harris’s editorial. I guarantee you will agree with MOST of what she has to say. If you don’t agree, maybe you agree with the fact that while the dating scene seems to be a wasteland maybe, just maybe black women need to broaden their horizons. Chris Rock’s newest stand-up reveals the secret to why black women hate to see a black man with a white woman. Do you wanna know the secret too? Drum roll please….BECAUSE BLACK WOMEN AREN’T ATTRACTED TO WHITE MEN!
-J.C. Brooks
June 15th, 2009 at 10:51 am
i agree with this article. some women in general complain about not finding a good man. but don’t want to deal with the ones that are single,have no job or no college degree. i think that if some women in general would relax there standards and give these men a chance. maybe they would not have unrealistic ideas about dating. some women as soo as a guy shows them interst they get intimidsted. and theyh wonder why there alone and they date white women!!!
June 17th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Who gives a shyt if they do date white or any other nonblack women because black men are lucking out with everybody. It ain’t the color — it’s black men period looking for someone to take care of their trifling butts and put up with crappy treatment. Good riddance to bad rubbish!