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Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1911
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 08:44 pm: | 
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September 29 is Marry your Baby Daddy Day. We should contact this woman and make it a national holiday.
70%? That's higher than I'd imagined.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2970103&page=1 |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4222
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 09:30 pm: |
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So Renata, you know I have to ask - are you gonna marry your babydaddy???
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Cynique
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Post Number: 8057
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 09:52 pm: |
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Does she know who he is???? |
Renata
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Post Number: 1912
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Votes: 6 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 10:42 pm: |
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LOL....that's the most unoriginal bs you hags have come up with yet. And from the baby mamas' queen. LOL, how ironic.
There's GOT TO BE something else for you two to do other than hanging out here all day being reminded that you're bitches. I'm SURE there is. Go to the mall, call your local cable company and see if they have Matlock or something, or go out for coffee.
Just copy and paste this the next time you want to read the same old same old.....
YOU'RE BOTH BITCHES AND HAGS AND THERE'S A REASON YOU'RE ALONE.
I won't even copyright it. Feel free to print it out and paste it on your mirrors so you won't feel the need to hear it so often from other people.
Or at the very least, do something original for once, and leave your home for a few minutes to be called a bytch by NEW people. You already know how we feel.
THIS IS REALLY BORING ME. YOU'RE BOTH BYTCHES. PLEASE KNOW THAT WITHOUT HAVING TO BE REMINDED ON A CONSTANT BASIS.. |
Tonya
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Post Number: 5027
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 10:53 pm: |
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I honestly can't relate to this phenomenon. I come from a very old-fashioned family where people get married, have children, and stay married even when those mofos don't need to be. The women in my family are deemed "fast" or "loose" if they’ve had too many "experiences" with different men, and the kids are instantly regarded as "illegitimate" when they're born out-of-wedlock; yes, even to this day. So to me this 70% figure doesn’t sink in all that good. And I can vouch for the claim that shaming people for their acts do work extremely well. Which is why Tonya keeps her shit on the DL. They don’t know the half. |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4224
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 10:53 pm: |
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Renata - You seem to have a really bad case of being surly and too uptight. I only asked you if you were going to marry your babydaddy, but I should have asked if your babydaddy is ever gonna marry you and claim your mystery offspring.
In light of the fact that you're so uptight, I doubt it since men want someone with whom they can enjoy themselves and relax. You need to loosen up some and get a sense of humor. Take a joke, laugh a little. Be more charming. At the rate you're going you will have a heart attack and a stroke before the big day.
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Renata
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Post Number: 1913
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:06 pm: |
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LOL... QUEEN, I've been married for 8 years...that's as far as I'm going in this conversation with you.
Tonya, yeah, that does seem quite high to me, too. I would have imagined about 35%. Most of my black friends have no kids at all, but they're about my age or older.
Your case is about the same in my family also, with the exception of the younger people, however. Women and men aged 19 to 28 seem to already have 2 or 3 kids. And of those in that group who do marry, they seem to want to do it AFTER the kids are born. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 8059
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:11 pm: |
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Ol sorry-assed renuta had to write an essay to show how much she doesn't care about what I say. She's so dense she can't figure that I've "been there, done that" and if I loll around in the comfort of my den, multi-tasking, it's by choice! If all the drivel she spouts is an example of what people who are out and about have to offer then deliver me from that! Talk about youth being wasted on the young! ROTFLOL. BTW, you forgot to answer my question, dingbat. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1914
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Bytch. There, you got your fix for the day. You can go to bed now. |
Renata
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:17 pm: |
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I can remind you again tomorrow (which I'll probably HAVE to in your condition)....but I'm sure anyone you come in contact will be willing to oblige you.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 8060
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:18 pm: |
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Sorry, renuta, got a book to finish reading. You do know what a book is, don't you??? snicker. |
Renata
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:22 pm: |
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I'll remind you of that again tomorrow, too. You've got to ask your doctor to start writing notes to keep you updated on a daily basis. Write that down too before you forget......
Same old same old....bytch.....white trash wannabe....whore....
fill in the blanks.
Tag. |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4226
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:26 pm: |
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Charm. Warmth. Humor. Self-Confidence. Enlightenment. Intelligence. Discipline.
All these qualities will make him want to marry you, Renata.
It's "The Secret."
Trust. Believe.
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Renata
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Post Number: 1918
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:35 pm: |
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LOL...Mzuri...that's actually quite funny. It would be even funnier if I were single.
However, it's hardly a secret how to get a man to marry you. Granted, for some it evades as though it were a secret, but whatever...... |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4228
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:43 pm: |
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No no no, you don't understand. I'm not advocating your technique of getting your babydaddy to marry you - the entrapment method which entails getting pregnant, having a baby, and waiting around until whenever he comes around.
I recommend the attraction method. "The Secret" way. With this method he will really WANT to marry you . . . for you.
It's the best way of capturing and retaining your babydaddy's man's heart.
Trust. Believe.
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Renata
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Post Number: 1919
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:46 pm: |
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For those who can use the information to their advantage:
As the old adage goes, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans". That is so quite true!
Go to college, move to whatever town you want to, go out with your friends every weekend (or every night if your schedule allows), move to another town just to swim in the ocean, move again to see the mountains, hang out in the bohemian part of town and learn to paint or play a bamboo flute, or whatever floats your boat.
For some reason, men seem to love women they think they need to "tame" or "domesticate". A challenge I guess. You don't even HAVE to be wild....or maybe they just want to grab you before you move on.
Sit at home and wait for him to ask you out every weekend and they're going to assume you'll BE at home every weekend, so why rush? "She'll be there next month". |
Renata
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:50 pm: |
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LOL....at your last statement. Six years before a child is hardly entrapment. But I guess someone can use that information.
Mzuri, you can do better than that. At LEAST insult me based on FACTUAL things. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1921
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:53 pm: |
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I'll make it easy for you. I was 30 when my child was born.....you could say I was too old.
My son and I were both born in the south and we're both light skinned......allude to redneck blood.
We both love the water.....allude to fish genes.
You're really grasping at straws when you're going on and on about my "out of wedlock" child. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1922
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:54 pm: |
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(sigh) anyways. |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4230
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 - 11:59 pm: |
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How can I insult you based on FaCtUaL things when I don't even know you? Keep it real please, this is an online forum.
BTW, I see you are implementing "The Rules" method of capturing your babydaddy's man's heart. Play hard to get and be a challenge and your babydaddy man will want to capture you.
"The Secret" way is much, much better.
Trust. Believe.
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Renata
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 12:06 am: |
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ROFLMAO....OMG.....you are truly pathetic......LOL.
I'm as lonely as you are. I will really be happy if my babydaddy remembers to call us on our son's birthday. It's been so long since he's bought diapers, and I just can't cope. I'm lonely and HORNY. There's my secret.
Happy? You've expose me. I think I'm going to have a kleenex moment.
'scuse me.
ROFLMAO......LOL... |
Renata
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 12:10 am: |
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(sob) just one moment, please.
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Renata
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 12:13 am: |
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All by myseeelf. I don't wanna be all by myyyyyyyself anymore. |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4231
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 12:21 am: |
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Poor Renata. Go to eBay and search for a low-budget wedding dress. And keep your fingers crossed that he comes thru on 29 September.
I shall pray for you.
Keep hope alive.
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Renata
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 12:26 am: |
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Please do pray for me...and....and can you help me find him?(sob)........
'scuse me.
LOL.....this is too much....LOL, OMG |
Renata
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Post Number: 1927
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 12:27 am: |
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Man, that's the hardest I've laughed in a long time.
(I just hope the good times come around again.)
LOL OMG |
Doberman23
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 06:59 am: |
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if a woman wants to get a man to marry her, then she's got to get those "shut-up and get me a sammage " skillz down tight, learn how to unleash her inner freak, and by all means be a help instead of a hinderance. |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 07:14 am: |
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When you honestly think about, Black foks are reproducing in manner that's LESS sophisticated and mature than much of the rest of the animal kingdom.
I mean, hell, even lions, deer, wolves and many forms of birdlife actually couple and commit to feeding, protecting and raising their progeny until their young can take care of themselves.
It's almost like as a people and species we're DEVOLVING. |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4232
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 07:40 am: |
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Uh huh. And you'd think that the fear of acquiring AIDS would cause people to use prophylactics.
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Yvettep
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 09:39 am: |
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Who gets to marry the baby-daddy with more than one baby-mamma? |
Urban_scribe
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 09:46 am: |
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LOL @ Yvettep! AND, if you have more than one "baby-daddy," which one do you marry? |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 09:52 am: |
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Yvettep,
Just as many babydaddies have multiple babymommas, many babymommas have multiple babydaddies. So if all of them just picked one of each other to marry, it'll all work out.
And, btw, if BOTH Black men AND women were committed to MARRYING prior to making babies, there be FEWER multiple babydaddies/mommas to begin with. |
Yvettep
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 10:19 am: |
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LOL @ U_s & ABM! Well here's for polygyny and polyandry! I know half the time I could use an extra wife or husband to help around the house, with the kids, with finances, etc! |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 11:50 am: |
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Yvettep,
You go right on then.
No way in HELL I'd want an extra wife, though. Because I LIKE what what little life and sanity I have left. |
Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 12:55 pm: |
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And here, folks, is your anthropology lesson for the day. Once upon a time, when Baby Daddys and Baby Mommys started overlapping they'd just merge and voila! a tribe came into being. |
Moonsigns
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 01:15 pm: |
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I think the concept is respectable; however, I would like to see people marry BEFORE they have children.
Yvettep, you've made a good point! |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5032
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 02:10 pm: |
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Abm,
quote:When you honestly think about, Black foks are reproducing in manner that's LESS sophisticated and mature than much of the rest of the animal kingdom.
I mean, hell, even lions, deer, wolves and many forms of birdlife actually couple and commit to feeding, protecting and raising their progeny until their young can take care of themselves.
It's almost like as a people and species we're DEVOLVING.
When you take into account our many other problems (ie: HIV, health care, crime, poverty ect) it seemingly bolsters your point. But what's the answer, WHY are we "devolving"? Do you have a theory? |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 02:18 pm: |
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Tonya,
In a world: FREEDOM.
We are much more FREE to indulge our every thought, desire and inclination than ever our ancestry could afford to.
And we're able to SURVIVE while doing whatever we want, with whomever we want, in ways that we could not before.
So, babe, what we're all bearing witness to is the paradoxic of Liberty: Foks can do whatever they want to do, Oh great joy and horror therein. |
Moonsigns
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 02:37 pm: |
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Abm,
^^^^ While you've made a valid point, I think it's more complicated than that. I think if more Black Americans, especially Black female Americans, had access to quality health care, the situation we see today (70% of children born out-of-wedlock) would change drastically (as well as some other major health issues facing the black community). In my opinion, healthy communities start with healthy minds and bodies. I also think that it's criminal that the government could do more about this but chooses not to.
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Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 02:48 pm: |
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Moonsigns,
You're going to have to expound upon your argument of how quality healthcare will lessen the Babymomma/Babydaddy phenomenon. Because what we have now are many Black fok who DO have good jobs, educations and healthcare programs making babies outside of marriage.
This, to me, is far MORE that just a healthcare issue. What we have here is a paradigm shift in how Black men and women fundamentally think and expect to have and do with each other. And that will NOT be cured via Blue Cross/Blue Shield. |
Mzuri
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 03:11 pm: |
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Black people are notorious for not going to the doctor. Even when they can afford it and have health insurance, they still don't go at the same rates as whites. This statement is not made based upon some statistical scientific study but from my own observations of friends/associates/acquaintances and family - plus it's common knowledge. If Black women went to the doctor/health care provider in greater numbers, more of them would likely be on some form of birth control. They'd also be more likely to have greater self-worth and self-esteem, thereby reducing the babymomma drama.
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Brownbeauty123
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How can birth control give you high self esteem? |
Mzuri
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Booty - Learn to read and comprehend and until you do those two essential tasks do me a favor and shut your imbecilic stupid dumb clusterfukced silly ass up. Oh yeah, and take your crackheaded simple fatnasty ass to the doctor and get on some birth control so that you don't fukc up the gene pool. BTCH!
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Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 04:19 pm: |
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On second thought, go ahead on a get a hysterectomy. I don't want to take any chances of your stupidity proliferating.
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Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 04:41 pm: |
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What has happened is that for young single black women, having a baby out of wedlock carries no stigma. It has become like a badge of honor or a rite of passage. But the negative ramifications of this "custom" pervade the black community. Too often these single women become repeat offenders and their fatherless, ill-behaved children crowd the classrooms and these undisciplined kids, along with their belligerent mamas, make it difficult for teachers to teach, a situation that sends young black boys out into the mean streets, ill-eqipped to find work, left with no choices but to bond with gangs and impregnate young girls who proceed to produce a new generation of babies that will go through the same dead-end rountine that drives them to commit the crimes that cause them to end up in prison just like their fathers before them. It's a vicious cycle. |
Brownbeauty123
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I'm gonna report you to Troy Mzuri...enough is enough |
Abm
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BB123: "How can birth control give you high self esteem?"
Cause you can bone a LOT of guys without worrying about getting pregnant? I guess...
*shrugs* |
Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 05:12 pm: |
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If the future babymomma went to regular doctor's visits, she would know the answer to that. But since she's obviously part of the Black underclass who doesn't receive healthcare or who otherwise refuses to seek it out, she's clueless to what I said.
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Brownbeauty123
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I am celibate. That is my birthcontrol.
btw, my parents make damn good money. |
Mzuri
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Again, Booty, you are unable to read and comprehend. Having money doesn't mean that one goes to regular doctor's visits. Black people have an aversion to doctors and hospitals. It's a fact.
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Brownbeauty123
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You said I was part of the black underclass.. |
Mzuri
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You can have money and still be part of the Black underclass, dimwit.
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Brownbeauty123
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What class do you fall under? |
Mzuri
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Middle to upper middle class. And I regularly visit the doctor, dentist, etc. This is because my family was in the military, we had easy access to medical facilities and so it's just part of my routine. However, I know that most Black people do NOT like to visit the doctor. Black women especially don't like getting pap smears, etc., and Black men are just as bad about getting their annual check-ups.
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Moonsigns
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 12:30 pm: |
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Abm,
I'm short on time right now; however, I will "say" this (like I "said" before): Healthy communitites begin with healthy minds and bodies. To expound a (wee) bit more; When people have the proper awarness/information regarding how their body works, the environment to choose a health care plan that suits their needs (in all respects -from doctors, specialists, trainers (if needed), to the capital to obtain healthy, nutrient-dense foods), it is incredibly self-empowering. And statistics overwhemingly prove that non-whites, especially American black females, do not receive adequate health care (all the way around). Therefore, generation after generation is less empowered, and with our current "sex-sells" culture, this has proved to be disastorous for many black females of low socio-economic backround as well as their off-spring. AND stats also show that, even when middle class black Americans, male and female, seek medical treatment, they (generally) do not receive the same treatment as their white counterparts. And to me, that is criminal!!!! All around, it's just criminal!
Oh -and also -stats also prove that, when black people have a primary health care physician who also happens to be black, their all over health is generally better. My children's pediatrician is black and I wouldn't have it any other way!
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Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 12:40 pm: |
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Moonsigns,
I agree good healthcare is essential. I just don't that as being the crux of the issue. If anything, I'm just as inclined to consider it a PRODUCT of other problems and that it really won't be adequately addressed until OTHER issues are (e.g., Black men/women pooling skills/resources to better birth/rear children, better educated/informed populace, more Black researchers/doctors dedicated to serving the Black community, etc.). |
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