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gboss4sure: Since 2011? Na now mods wake up?

carr96: ...a 2011 thread jst making front page *smh*

Bryancrox: Anqry mode...continue drinkinq my palm wine,hw cn a 2011 make frontpaqe 2013.And same people qo complain say d country nor dey move forward...Smh

steffans: Is dis jst reachen FP since 2011

Seun: Better late than never.

LOL
is this one just a gesture to please the igbo cabal?

bukatyne: The bolded sounds like because Dangote can buy a yacht, all Nigerians are rich.
You and I know that those women were exceptions and not the rule.
Women don't have much rights in the ancient Israel and yet Deborah was a Judge.

pls, pay no mind to that bleating goat.

smartg :
there is nothing wrong in marrying 2face, Annie was just a lucky girl. That's all.

she looks like a fool to me. I wonder how many men will chose to marry a woman who has 5 kids by 5 different men. won't he also look like a fool.

pleep: Feminist history is seriously over-simplified... in actuality there is no historic oppression that women had to face that men did not have an equal or greater burden.

Everyone suffered in the past, not just females.

For example women were not allowed to vote in 1919, but niether were the 18 yr old boys who fought in WW1, and neither were the middle age landless males who were drafted to die in wars for the last 2000 years.

ever heard of the term 'white man's burden'?
the whites felt they were burdened with responsibility of colonizing and civilizing africa and blacks. imagine. thousands of them died just fighting wars with each other over africa and slaves (US civil war etc) hahaha plus all the money they spent building roads, improving the quality of life of Africa colonies. so should we say that white men were oppressed too and blacks should be grateful? please come back with a better argument. rather than using the same ones slave owners and imperialists used to defend their right to keep humans as mules.

what a twa[size=1pt].[/size]t

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden

We need to close the wage-gap.

According to the US Department of Labor:

Blacks are the only racial or ethnic group for whom women represent a larger share of the employed than do men - more than half (53.8 percent) of employed Blacks in 2011 were women, compared to 46.0 percent among employed Whites. Nonetheless, employed black women still earn less than employed black men -black women earn roughly $0.91 to every dollar earned by black men. While the wage gap among Blacks is smaller than that for Whites, this is largely driven by the fact that African-American men face lower wages compared to men in other race groups in the economy. Black men employed full time earned on average $653 per week in 2011, 76.3 percent of the average salary earned by white men. By contrast, black women earn on average $595 per week or 84.6 percent of the average salary earned by white women.3 While the gap between black and white men fell substantially during the 1990s due to increased occupational desegregation, in the last few years the gap in earnings remained stable throughout the recent recession and recovery period.4

http://www.dol.gov/_sec/media/reports/blacklaborforce/

armyofone: Someone brought my attention here. Wow!!

Onlytruth, think about it this way, the responsibility placed on an African women is huge.
the white women you talked about don't have that responsibilities eg caring for sis/bro/aging parents/uncles/aunties etc

Don't blame African women for wanting to be a nurse.

brb

A lot of black men do not realize that "with power comes responsibility"
they want docile and submissive women, yet they have not put in a fair share of work it takes to care for a woman talk-less of a family. women are carrying a lot of the weight. how can you control a woman who is carrying more weight than you? Besides, it's 2013. the whole idea that women should be submissive is a thing of the past. Let us move forward. men and women are equal.

imagine if black men are already slaves and then black women are subservient to them. doesn't that make black women slave of a slave (!) That's horrible. imagine your house help having her own personal house help. kasala don burst

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy:_To_Be_Black_and_Female
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41065823?uid=3739736&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102071336561
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/wlm/blkmanif/

Another one:

“Woman-hating will only cease to be a noun in black life when black men collectively dare to oppose sexism. Unfortunately, when all black people should be engaged in a feminist movement that addresses the sexual politics of our communities, many of us are tragically investing in old gender norms. At a time when many black people should be reading Madhubuti’s Black Men, Sister Outsider, The Black Women’s Health Book, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; and a host of other books that seek to explore black sexual politics with compassion and care, folks are eagerly consuming a conservative tract, Toe Blackman’s Guide To Understanding The Black woman by Shahrazad Ali. This work actively promotes black male misogyny, coercive domination of females by males, and, as a consequence, feeds the internecine conflict between black women and men. Though many black people have embraced this work there is no indication that it is having a positive impact on black communities, and there is every indication that it is being used to justify male domiilance, homophobic assaults on black gay people, and rejection of black styles that emphasize our diasporic connection to Africa and the Caribbean. Ali’s book romanticizes black patriarchy, demanding that black women “submit” to black male domination in lieu of changes in society that would make it possible for black men to be more fulfilled.”

Culled from the internet:

Most Black men come off more interested in getting the power white men have than actual Black empowerment and liberation. More often than not, that’s the “lost” power they talk about. The domination, subjugation and complete control over Black women and our agency is a part of that package. Our oppression doesn’t mean shit. Them getting full access to patriarchy is more fucking important. Pure entitlement

My eyes tend to glaze over when most start talking about Black empowerment and helping Black boys because Black women will get blamed and treated like we created white supremacy. Bruv! do i look like a fucking white man? DO I?! PLEASE TELL ME WHEN BLACK WOMEN HAD THE SAME IMPACT AND POWER AS WHITE MEN? Because its Black women barring Black men from getting jobs and not white supremacy. Dick heads. Are you going to quote that white supremacist pile of shit about the emasculisation of Black men? lol and if you don’t know why its white supremacy me, you can’t talk me.

So many of these fucking guys act like Black women resisting patriarchal domination is just like oppression because boo fucking wooo! you haven’t had the same historical control and domination over Black women like white men had. Bleep that we’re suffering. Lets ignore the violence and oppression Black men do to Black women because “making Black men look bad” in front the white gaze is more important than the broken, sexually abused Black girls and women

I know this Common doc (or whatever) will prob find a way to incriminate Black women and girls and blame us for the shit that happens to them because that’s what ALWAYS HAPPENS.

If you can’t talk about helping, guiding and giving the empowerment to Black boys they deserve without spitting on Black women, you don’t care about all Black people. You care about obtaining full access to white patriarchal at any fucking cost. It would be good to talk about “breaking the cycle of broken Black men” but its most likely just going to be single mother bashing and please stroke my ego because i’m not doing X.

You’re not going to make me feel guilty because i don’t give a Bleep about your misplaced sense of entitlement to accessing white patriarchy and having agency over me—over all Black women and girls. That’s not liberation. I’m not looking for a change in management, love.

he's just having fun messing around with women and lying to avoid settling down.
see how he's talking like a kid in a candy store who doesn't know which flavor candy to pick. too much of everything (money/fame) is a bad thing.

^ not all. but certainly most.