Keli Goff, The Loop 21 and Congresswoman Fredrica Wilson are Idiots: Who Wants to Run For Congress?
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9:43AM The Blogmother They went and changed the title of this post over at TheLoop 21, but the original title was "Finding a Good Man is the Biggest Policy Issue Facing Black Women." Somebody must have warned them we were coming for them and they changed it to "Is Finding a Good Man the Biggest Policy Issue Facing Black Women"
Everyone responsible for this post is a fool. I thought I misread the title, but no, that's what the editors of The Loop 21 decided to use. no doubt to lure instant outrage. I'm not even mildly irritated because they're just exposing the underbelly of the Black Elite Establishment's psychotic beliefs about Black women.
So the question was "What is the Biggest Policy Issue facing Black WOMEN" To which Congresswoman Fredrica Wilson responded:
I think the issue of family matters. We have a void of African-American men, men who are on the same status as black women. I think it’s because of our education system and the absence of fathers in homes where we lose so many of our African-Americans to prisons, jails and then women go through college and attain academic success and then can’t find a partner in life and I think it’s an issue that the community needs to address. They need to make sure that these young men have real choices. They have taken all of our vocational problems out of schools and everyone is on the same track to college and that’s unrealistic. The Loop 21
In the Congresswoman's defense I'm sure she said lot's more, but The Loop 21 decided to cherry pick this quote. But her focus on men when the question is about women's interest is troubling. She's clearly a male-identified woman... which means she's incredibly dangerous to other women.
No, my number one policy issue isn't finding a good man. Even if that was a priority, there isn't a shortage of good men. Sorry, there ain't! And besides, the government had nothing to do with that!
How about increasing funding to research and cures of diseases that disporpotioniately impact Black women?
How about prosecuting the violent torture, rape and killing of Black women by Black men as gender-based HATE CRIMES?
How about going after the banks that targeted middle class Black women with sub prime loans?
How about Jobs. Jobs. Jobs?
How about insuring that more Black business women have access to government contracts and subcontracts?
How about a Black woman getting a cabinet position ( no EPA administrator and Ambassador to the UN DON'T Count!)?
How about the next time a Supreme Court vacancy comes up, a Black woman gets it?
See Congresswoman Wilson, I just brainstormed all of those in like 15 seconds. You do this full time and the most important issue to Black women is Black men?
Even if the issue were "finding a good man," who do you think is raising these men in a community where purportedly 70 percent of the households with children are headed by women?
You can't help Black boys if you don't help their mothers. Sorry. You'll have to think of Black women's interests afterall.
So who wants to run for the United States Congress out of Florida? I'm serious. Let's get you signed up to run against Congresswoman Fredrica Wilson. No, I'm serious, that can be our team building project for 2012. It will be fun.
The Blogmother
I'm bumping this comment from below to the main post because the write did a much better job of articulating what is wrong with Fredrica Wilson's answer to the question about Black women's policy issues:
It is actually more like she doesn't recognize that all sisters, cashier or college grad, young and old, don't need fair pay, safer neighborhoods, better healthcare, someone to speak out against our images being distorted for profit, or many other other things that a warm chololate man alone ain't necessarily going to bring.
Maybe she was trying to turn it around by saying there isn't anything WE need. We're going just fine. It's those darn men out there making our lives miserable that need addressing. However it comes off not just 1950s, like "oh there isn't anything us girls don't need that a big strong man can't provide better.
It actually smacks of the same attitude, intentionally or not, that leads other cultures to feed their male children first or drown baby girls.
Either way it says our needs take a back seat to the needs of our men. Rather than say, striving together and realizing that even if every black man suddenly had a job but there was no attitude change toward black women that we would still be drowning.
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OK, so when three out of four of the quotes were about the economy, why is the title of piece, some nonsense about finding a good man?
"How about prosecuting the violent torture, rape and killing of Black women by Black men as gender-based HATE CRIMES?" Better idea: how about we teach our Black boys to better respect our Black girls? How about we start turning our collective backside to every element of "Black culture" (looking at you, Hip-Hop) that participates in and encourages the degradation of Black people? How about we start teaching our young Black men to USE A CONDOM and teach our young Black women to say NO? How about we stop being afraid to try to teach chasity to our young Black people? How about we turn our backs on the humans turned animals responsible for said crimes, then report them and do what it takes to throw their asses in jail forever?
"How about going after the banks that targeted middle class Black women with sub prime loans?" How about we teach our people some financial responsibility and not sign their names to buying things they know damn well they have no business buying if they can't pay for it? How about going after the idiots in Congress (white-ass Democrats) who set up the sub-prime loan business in the first place? As for the rest of your suggestions, let me say this; how about ALL Black people take a long hard look at the liberal/Progressive/socialist ideology we have sold ourselves to since the 60s and start reviewing it to see if it has helped us or put us into modern-day slavery? Martin Luther King, Jr had a better home/family life and got a better education growing up in the 40s and 50s than our children are getting today...what the hell are we doing?
"They went and changed the title of this post over at TheLoop 21, but the original title was "Finding a Good Man is the Biggest Policy Issue Facing Black Women." Somebody must have warned them we were coming for them and they changed it to "Is Finding a Good Man the Biggest Policy Issue Facing Black Women"."
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Either way..... WTF? :-|
Don't even have a proper answer for this madness right now. Possibly later, but definitely not now. Speechless and shaking my head.
This article and all the nonsense that rides with it comes from the concept 'the soft bigotry of low expectations'. Somewhere after the Civil Rights movement Black folk started to falter. Instead of addressing the issues by finding cures we started using the all purpose crutch: fatherless homes. I am part of the first wave of 'bastard/love children'. I was born in 1970. Of course Census records and stats show that from that point on the numbers kept growing to what they are today. AND along the way we as a collective started burnishing and shining the old standard 'fatherless homes'. No one could think straight or be expected to act right cause daddy ain't. You can't read? Have to eat more bologna sammichs than what you'd like while momma works a few jobs...it's all daddy's fault. Hang nails, bad sight, lack of this or that is all daddy's fault. Why are Black males hanging around each other in clumps...and then those clumps begin to turn against each other and kill any and all around them...because daddy ain't at home. Well folks I have been robbed. When I was coming up I did not get to use that excuse. My heart ached and my soul was wounded because my father had misled my mother into thinking he loved her and would marry her. BUT that still did not absolve me from the social contract. You either going to follow the rules of the land and the words of the 10 Commandments are not. The Commandments don't read: Thou Shalt Not Kill*. And then at the bottom of the page the asterisk reads: *However if your daddy ain't at home then all bets are off and you can and should act any and all kinds of ways. As a collective we are drowning in irresponsibility and excuses. No answers, no drive to correct the wrongs and address the needs but good old fashion excuses. As for 'finding a good Black man' to marry. I am not Elmer Fudd. I am a Black woman who has always been open to love. Not necessarily Black love. But love...whether it be a Who from Whoville or White man or Asian man.
Wow, the title still is crappy. Jeez how do these people get these gigs. You can tell writers of these articles are projecting their own issues in these articles b/c they are only concerned with women like themselves, professional black women marrying like the cashier sister doesn't want companionship either.
The title is so off, like everyone is talking about jobs, families and education and she pulls the one quote? And she asked Debra Lee?
I checked her Goff's bio, she worked for Hillary Clinton, went to Columbia University she should know better. But I guess since I clicked over to the website which I never go to anyway she achieved her goal? And whats wrong with all these black so called news sites they aren't very good. People like Goff and her Columbia degree should be able to do better than that. Are these websites making money, if so pay a writer.
blkchik it is actually more like she doesn't recognize that all sisters, cashier or college grad, young and old, don't need fair pay, safer neighborhoods, better healthcare, someone to speak out against our images being distorted for profit, or many other other things that a warm chololate man alone ain't necessarily going to bring.
Maybe she was trying to turn it around by saying there isn't anything WE need. We're going just fine. It's those darn men out there making our lives miserable that need addressing. However it comes off not just 1950s, like "oh there isn't anything us girls don't need that a big strong man can't provide better.
It actually smacks of the same attitude, intentionally or not, that leads other cultures to feed their male children first or drown baby girls.
Either way it says our needs take a back seat to the needs of our men. Rather than say, striving together and realizing that even if every black man suddenly had a job but there was no attitude change toward black women that we would still be drowning.
Amen to this--->"Either way it says our needs take a back seat to the needs of our men. Rather than say, striving together and realizing that even if every black man suddenly had a job but there was no attitude change toward black women that we would still be drowning."
I especially co-sign that because of this---> "even if every black man suddenly had a job but there was no attitude change toward black women that we would still be drowning." Do NOT be deceived.We,and by we I mean the majority of black women (but especially those of us who are unmixed) absolutely will NOT be the beneficiaries of their wealth,education etc. Khadija Nassif did an excellent essay about this on her old blog in a post titled "Black Women: Why Do You Let "Becky, Lupe, J Lo, Fatima, and Mei Ling" Indirectly Pimp YOU?."
The only problem I have with the above statement is this tidbit here in the first sentence---> "OUR men". In all seriousness,I no longer claim several people(male and female) in my own family. I REFUSE to claim black men collectively.
@DVXPrime this--->"Better idea: how about we teach our Black boys to better respect our Black girls" Your response to this--->"How about prosecuting the violent torture, rape and killing of Black women by Black men as gender-based HATE CRIMES?" Better idea: how about we teach our Black boys to better respect our Black girls?"
In my opinion is NOT a better idea because 1.that idea would not address the huge number of black women and girls who have already had a crime committed against them by black men and boys.They deserve JUSTICE
2.When people say how about WE do X,Y,Z,they are normally just signing black women up for yet another dreadful task.I don't have ANY male children.I am not a school teacher.I don't interact with MOST black male children on the regular(except my brother and a few relatives),so I personally won't be doing anything except for keeping my sisters out of harms way as much as I possibly can.Plus I also believe that it is sometimes impossible for well meaning black women to raise their sons up ALONE to respect women when there is a culture in place that has MANY ADULT MEN, whom these boys look up to,who disrespect and abuse women (especially black women) often and without any repercussions.
3.Your comment seems to conveniently make all black males BOY CHILDREN in an effort to disarm black women from taking serious the threats each of them face by the many gender hate crimes that could happen to them or have already been committed against them.
But I do agree that many black men need to get it together,so that they can teach black boys to be respectful towards women and girls.
I certainly don't intend to come off as attacking anyone with my comment.However,I perceived the language in DVXprime's comment as telling black women don't worry about putting tougher laws in place to send people who have attacked you to jail, just educate them.As if all black males who have attacked black women are children/boys.
We may never know who may be reading this.Perhaps a future congresswoman.She needs to know that we need agendas set on the table that are about the improvement of black women and girls living condition.She also needs to know that we are not soft on crime when it comes to black women and girls being harmed by anyone.Not even black men or boys.We want justice and we'll pursue it aggressively no matter who the offender.
As was said, this highlights the tremendous disconnect between the black elite and the black masses. Perhaps the good Congresswoman should have read this first:
http://www.voxunion.com/?p=4331
@Truth P
Actually DVXPrime DID say that the Black demons raping and pillaging our neighborhoods should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Here is his quote:
How about we turn our backs on the humans turned animals responsible for said crimes, then report them and do what it takes to throw their asses in jail forever?
What I like about DVXPrime's strategy is that it's "both and" not "either or." It's deals with the short term (tougher sentences for Black criminals) and the long term (raise your kids better).
That's the best way to combat this scourge.
@Fred:
"What I like about DVXPrime's strategy is that it's "both and" not "either or." It's deals with the short term (tougher sentences for Black criminals) and the long term (raise your kids better).
That's the best way to combat this scourge."
Cosign. As the nother of a black boy it is my mission to raise him up to be a responsible human being who has respect for himself and others. I am raising hm to love hinmself and I am planting the seeds of love and respect for black girls and women in him. He thinks black girls are nice, beautiful and have pretty hair. I refuse to let him spek incorrect English in my presence. He already KNOWS he will go to college and that he will get married. I'm setting the bar high for him, because as far as I'm concerned that is the "norm" for him. I expect him to succeed, so I'm doing all I can to make it happen. We need to have more parents take this approach with black boys AND girls. Both are precious and need protection and nuturing, but you have to start young so that it becomes a lifestyle with them.
When I read this story i took the title to be a grabbing headline and a sarcastic question especially with all of the media focus regarding black women getting married and finding a man.
The author spoke with some incredible women who explained what the media and women SHOULD be focusing on: education, economy, health, etc.
Seems like the writer of this post got so worked up over a title that they couldn't see the value of the article.
People see what they want to see and the writer of the post choose to attack than make talking points from what the influential women said.