AND THE DISCUSSION GOES ON
I FOUND THESE TWO POINTS ON A FORUM
I am a proud African woman and even if I don’t have kids yet, I’m hellbent on making sure that my boys will never question, even in their adolescence, the fact that black women are their rock and not something so threatening that it’s worth dating out of race. If they decide to date out of race, I’d like them to do it for reasons other than “I am looking for this and that when it comes to certain human traits or values, and black women don’t have it”. If one of my son ever tells me something like that or liking long, silky hair, I will disown him right away.
I grew up in Africa in a country where white and biracial people tended to mingle with each other. We all learn at school how strong black women and men worked together to fight against colonialism. I was raised and told that a good man would always go the extra mile to pursue a woman he loved and our men knew that it was valiant to do such things. I learnt at school that in certain cultures and villages, there were rites where men undergo ordeals to prove they’re worth the woman they want. On the other side, mothers make sure that their daughters also go through some rites in which they learn to endure pain because life is no fun 24/7. Who would like anyway to marry a woman who will fall apart at the first sight of trouble in paradise? Even Lois Lane is no fragile flower and Superman doesn’t seem to complain about it.I grew up with this idea of black women having to be strong, assertive, resilient for themselves, their husbands, their families and there was nothing wrong about it. Our men knew it and were looking for that.
Nowadays, I don’t know if this is the influence of western medias always whining about independent women castrating men, our men claim that we are mean, too argumentative, too aggressive.
As far as I am concerned, I left Africa when I was 17 and have been living for 15 years outside my home country. I’ve experienced so many hardships in my life and I am proud of the strong person I’ve become. I am very well educated, well spoken and know where I am from, proud of my African values and proud of being as strong as all the women of my lineage. My black male friends think that I am too independent and that makes me a white chick so I’d only be happy with a white man. BS!!! As far as I am concerned, the way I see it is if a black man sees me a threat, well either his mom was too submissive to his dad; either he didn’t take a good look at his mom and how brave she has been. Black women are brave and it’s time that black men get it. I don’t care about the loud and brash women; they are not representative of all black women the same way the cheating brothers are not representing of all men. I am hellbent on finding a black man who is gonna understand that this assertiveness of mine is an asset for him and for our couple. No way I am gonna run away or make my man low because he lost his job, because he’s having doubts about something or because he’s ill. These are things that as a black woman I’ve already experienced alone and overcome by myself. There was a reason for that: to be a rock for somebody else who is going through the same s**t and if that’s someone is my significant other, Alleluia!!! On the other side, I expect a certain strength of character from my man and I want if from a brother because I know his would come from experiences that other men from other “races” didn’t have.
My 2 cents
Black men date white women for the same reason so many black men prefer black women who have light skin, eyes, and long silky hair. They perceive that white women are more beautiful, more feminine or lady like and more kind and compliant than black women. This is the truth.
When you think about it, this makes perfect sense. Who are the women most depicted in the media, movies, porno, etc. and put forth as the “hotties.” Is it more often asian, Hispanic or native American women? Very, very few. What you do see is thin blonde, blue-eyed women sometimes with fake attributes on their chest.
The white, blonde blue eyed woman is the Bentley of females as far as the media is concerned. If she had her dithers, many white woman would have blonde hair and blue eyes, be skinny with big boobs. This is what their men want, and it’s what a lot of black men want as well.
However, black men aren’t as fixated on blonde hair as they are on long silky hair and light skin. This is why black women wear hair weaves and relax their hair. Their men prefer women with long, straight hair. If yours is naturally long and straight and your skin is very bright, even better.
So, the stories about black women and their nasty attitudes is an excuse for black men who don’t want to reveal their true physical preferences lest they be called out for their self-hatred. If you can’t stand afro textured hair and darker features, you can’t stand yourself. End of story. If you admit as much you have to face up to this unpleasant fact.
It’s easier to say that black girls are horrible people than it is to flat out say you think they are ugly and by extension you really find yourself ugly.
SUH DEM SEH
‘Dudus’ faces final chapter
Former Tivoli strongman to be sentenced tomorrow
BY HAROLD G BAILEY Observer writer
Thursday, March 15, 2012
NEW YORK, USA — Almost three years after United States authorities requested his extradition on drug and gunrunning charges, former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke faces the final chapter in the long-running saga, when he is sentenced here tomorrow.
The question on everybody’s minds here is whether or not Judge Robert P Patterson will impose the maximum 23-year sentence under the plea bargain arrangement entered into between prosecutors and Coke’s defence team last August.
COKE… pleaded guilty to lesser charges
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In an interview with the Observer, US Federal defence attorney Wayne Golding gave an insight into how the sentencing could turn out. He said that there is no way of knowing if Judge Patterson will impose the maximum sentence, which is what is being sought by prosecutors. According to Golding, the judge will examine a raft of issues — known in legal circles as the book of factors — as part of the sentencing guidelines.
Among these factors, Golding said, is a probation report which is only available to prosecutors and Coke’s defence team. He said that other factors will include Coke’s family history, education, cooperation, and whether or not the plea bargain arrangement was done in a timely manner.
Golding said that the fact that Coke pleaded guilty to lesser charges than for what he was originally charged, “will also be taken into consideration by the judge”. He said that he was confident that “Judge Patterson will be fair in his sentencing”.
While Coke, who has been in custody since June 2010 — could possible benefit from time served, Golding said he will not be considered for parole. Coke has had his sentencing postponed on three occasions since December of last year.
Coke was extradited to the US after eluding the Jamaican security forces for a month after escaping a dragnet in his former stronghold of Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston.
More than 70 people died in a gun battle when police and soldiers forced their way into a barricaded Tivoli Gardens to serve an arrest warrant on Coke, the revered community leader in the tough inner-city community. He was finally held in a police roadblock on the Mandela Highway in St Catherine and later waived his rights to an extradition hearing.
WIFE AND MATE?
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CYAA CAPCHA KONY
Kony Evades Capture in Central Africa Amid Internet Campaign
March 14 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Kony, the Ugandan warlord who’s become the subject of a global social-network campaign, is evading capture amid tensions between Central African nations where his Lord’s Resistance Army operates.
Kony and his fighters fanned out across the Central African Republic, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo after fleeing northern Uganda six years ago. The armies of the four nations disagree about the threat posed by the LRA, slowing the progress to apprehend Kony, said Ned Dalby, a regional analyst at the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, an independent advocacy group.
“A major problem facing the operation is the mutual mistrust between Congo and Uganda at both the political and military levels,” Dalby said from Accra, the Ghanaian capital. “What’s really needed is sustained institutional and multilateral pressure from western countries, the United Nations and the African Union on the governments of Uganda and Congo primarily, but also on the South Sudanese” and the Central African Republic.
Kony, whose official age isn’t known, has been on the run since being indicted by the International Criminal Court in 2005 on charges including murder, mutilation, rape and the abduction of 30,000 children for use as soldiers and sex slaves. In the two-decade rebellion in northern Uganda, the LRA rebels hacked villagers with machetes and burnt people to death in their huts at the instigation of Kony, who claims he is a prophet.
Invisible Children
The LRA and Kony were thrust into the public eye last week after a 30-minute video by San Diego-based Invisible Children went viral on the Internet through campaigns on social-media networks like Facebook and Twitter. The Kony2012 video, in which filmmaker Jason Russell attempts to explain Kony’s actions to his four-year-old son, was viewed 76 million times on YouTube since it was posted on March 5.
Invisible Children, which was created after the filmmakers visited Uganda in 2003, calls on supporters to lobby U.S. lawmakers and buy posters and bracelets to publicize Kony’s name so he can be captured by the end of the year. In October, the U.S. sent 100 combat-equipped forces, including special operations personnel, to Central Africa to assist Uganda’s army in capturing Kony.
Wizard of the Nile
The LRA rebellion began after Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986 by overthrowing Tito Okello, an ethnic Acholi. The LRA blames Museveni’s forces for purging the army of Acholi people, the majority of whom make up the LRA.
According to abductees, Kony is inspired by the Ten Commandments and exhorts child soldiers to kill and maim in the name of the Bible, Matthew Green said in his 2008 book, The Wizard of the Nile, which chronicles the hunt for Kony. The rebel leader made abductees undergo “purification” rituals by his priests that would protect them against bullets from Museveni’s forces, according to Green.
Uganda’s government forced the rebels to flee into neighboring countries in 2006, ending the insurgency in the north. Museveni, who won re-election last year, has since focused on rebuilding the economy of Africa’s largest coffee exporter. Uganda is set to become Africa’s newest oil producer this year when Tullow Oil Plc begins pumping crude and gas from Lake Albert Basin.
Museveni sent forces into Central African Republic, South Sudan and Congo to help combat an estimated 300 LRA fighters. In December, Ugandan forces left Congo, where a small group of about 30 rebels remain, according to that country’s army.
Threat to Civilians
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/03/14/bloomberg_articlesM0U4J50YHQ0X01-M0VMS.DTL#ixzz1pA2hFU82
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