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Ferociouskitty
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Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 08:30 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

http://blackwomenvote.blogspot.com/2008/02/citoya-greenwood-relocation-fund.html

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Abm
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Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 12:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

While I sympathize with Citoya I fear the tone and rhetoric of her Black Women Vote (BMV) advocates might dissuade many foks, especially Black MEN, from wanting to help her...at least via this BWV venue.
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Ferociouskitty
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Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 01:21 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I hear you, ABM. It's a tragedy, period, and I think her plight could have been publicized without stuff like the "love affair with black male criminality" comment.

The women who runs the BWV site also runs the What About Our Daughter site, and I've heard comments similar to yours from black men and women: The site is well-intentioned, but the tone may be counterproductive to what she's aiming to accomplish. Not that she has to be all honey and no vinegar, but...
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Ferociouskitty
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Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 01:22 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

^"the WOMAN" not "women"
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Abm
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Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 02:34 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Even the most decent, upstanding Black men can’t much stomach of the Black Man Bashing. Because no matter how you say you’re only referring certain Black men it almost always sound as though you’re deriding all of us.

Sorta like how many sistas resent the characterizations of Black women in music videos eventhough man, if not MOST of you, would not be caught dead performing in Nelly’s Tip Drill or Snoop Dogg Drop It Like It’s Hot video.

I can empathized with much of the anger and disappointment many Black women feel of Black men. And I support there being venues for the venting of such sentiments.

But I believe over the longterm too much of this skrung blak wimmen results in an atmosphere that serves to EXASERBATE the very problems it (allegedly) aspires remedy. Because in spite of ALL the problems Black men suffer, when it's ALL said and done, MOST Black women really want and need Black men.

And vice versa.
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Ferociouskitty
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 01:03 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hey, ABM...I totally missed your reply here, until now.

I have a male friend who laments the state of black male-black female relationships, and has gone the whole "sistah-I'm-sorry route"...but I don't believe in all that. I think everybody needs to give everybody a clean slate.

I've had my share of negative experiences with men, and I've learned from them. But when my Current came along, I felt it only fair to him--and to myself--to give him a chance, and a clean slate.

So, I think we should stop looking at each other in all caps--Black Man, Black Woman--and try to see individuals. I don't want to be judged/held accountable by the worst thing a sistah has done to some guy, and I know men hate to be judged like that as well.

But of course, once someone gives us a clean slate and an open heart, we need to act in ways that make us worthy of such.

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