I haven't posted here in a year. I do, however, come on here almost every day to read the comments. I have watched the boards slowly devolve into a series of anger, bewilderment, and sometimes outright denial on the part of some posters.
I have hoped that the need for BlackKos would disappear due to a lack of need for it on a liberal site. However, I see that it is still going strong. With the emergence of the BLM movement and the divergence of race into the liberal agenda, I find myself deeply depressed.
I am still unemployed after 5 1/2 years and am now 46. My daughter, a student at LSU, is working 12 hour shifts (she can get a job because she's young, pretty, and looks good in their cheerleading outfits). I'm not going to even talk about how many jobs I have applied for, how many interviews I've gone on where I have more education than the whites who interview me. They give me a blank stare when they realize I'm black and then I spend the next 45 minutes trying to be optimistic knowing full well what the results will be. However, I digress. Over the fold...
The one thing that has concerned me about the BLM is the overwhelming presence of black women. They seem to be the ones doing the heavy lifting. While that may seem benign to a lot of people, I kind of get angry about it and here's why.
The victims of a lot of these crimes come from poor, urban areas. Almost all of them are young black men. As a black female, I also visit sites that predominately consist of black posters. The opinions they have about black women are astounding. On any given day, black women are constantly referred to as whores, c*m bags, illiterate baby mamas, the list goes on and on. If a post is about any woman but a black woman, no matter what they do, black men will come on there and defend them. I won't even start on Iggy Azalea, who has a long list of insults to black people but is still vehemently defended by black men, along with anything Kardashian and any other woman who shuns her own men for a black one.
Black women are the least likely to be married, with 74% of black children raised by single mothers. Our unemployment rate is twice the national average, with many estimates that it is twice what they know due to people dropping off of the roles. Black women with college degrees have double the unemployment rate of white woman, and there are more unemployed black women than black men. 42% of the job losses during the recession were black women, who made up the largest group employed by the government. Private sector businesses are the least likely to hire black women, who are often mired down with responsibilities for children, parents, and extended family. I dated a white man for 5 years, but my extended unemployment, coupled with the glaring disapproval of my family and his children, drove him off. I'm certainly not surprised. Yet, I don't hear or see any black men discussing the plight of their women. We are dying out here, not from police brutality, but from our double negative to the mainstream of being black and female.
I spent the last year caring for my grandmother who raised me with my grandfather. She passed away in March. After spending nights staying at the hospital, bathing her, feeding her, and attending to her, I was met at her funeral by my brother, a man when an overwhelming aversion to black women. He lives in California, and when I visited every black man I saw was with a white woman, and every other man was with an Asian or another ethnicity, but not black. I saw two black women in two weeks, and they were both alone.
I say all of that to say this: It's funny how black women seem to be at the forefront of the BLM movement. Our loyalty is unprecedented. Any black woman who is willing to admit the truth knows that we are often saddled with all of the responsibility with none of the rewards. We are out there grabbing microphones, protesting, shoving presidential candidates aside, searching for our children in the midst of looting. Yet our men are more likely than any other to forsake us in favor of another while simultaneously demanding our full support and a pint of our blood while we care for their children and wait for them to return.
I know this will draw ire from the black men who post here, but please show me the data and statistics that nullify a single thing I've posted. I love black men, but I have to ask, are they just as willing to put their necks out on the line when we are in the crossfire? When we are suffering? How many times have you seen black men leading massive protest for black women who are victimized by the police, by the job market, by housing discrimination, by employment discrimination, by our own families? Let me know when it happens.
For all of the blathering about whether those two women were out of line for interrupting Sanders' speech, no one wants to talk about why was it two women who did it when black men are the ones who are overwhelmingly shot by the police? It's a deep-seeded dynamic that most will never hear about, but I'm going to put it out there.