If your post is in any way referring to mine i'd like to tell you assumptions get you nowhere and I can't stand tommy sotomayor at all.
I actually can't take any black person seriosuly who likes tommy sotomayor. I had my manager tell me he was a big fan of tommy sotomayor and this dude looks and acts in every sterotypical way you can think when looking at this pic
If not, then my bad, but tommy sotomayor is still a full blown twat
Wasn't referring to you either. And I agree with you, I view anyone who takes him seriously similarly. However many Black men who do co-sign him are not automatically written off, the way a Black woman who doesn't even disparage Black men but has a non-Black spouse would be.
But I do have to deal with them everyday. Like I said I have a daughter and a wife. All black men have female family members who they have to support through the problems. Once again they are ALL of our problems.
And you didn't answer my question. Is the fact that I might get shot for wearing a hoody a "privilege" for you?
No, but Black women are not exempt from violent attacks based on our race either. Many of you have never even heard of Latasha Harlins. A 15 year old Black girl shot dead in the back of the head trying to buy juice. She died with the money to pay for it in her hands. But more sympathy and attention was awarded to a grown Black man, Rodney King who had his own vices, than a Black girl. And its not just Latasha Harlins, there is Keyarika Diggles, Alesia Thomas, and many more. But you will never hear about them, and you especially will not hear about Black women and girls that are abused and go missing by the hand of their Black male spouses. This is a privilege of being a Black male in the Black community, one that you refuse to acknowledge and then try to push off on me as if I'm the one being divisive. In general your issues are put at the forefront. You are the face of Black oppression, our issues are secondary.
And while you might claim to face those issues as your own every day, the Black community in general absolutely does not.
Please stop comparing us to white folks. It just doesn't hold up. Like I've said plenty of times. These problems effect ALL of us. Quit trying to pit our problems against each other. None of us wins when you play that game. I could come up with 85 problems that black men face and call them "privelages" for women. But that would be just as silly as your list.
You keep trying to paint me as bringing legitimate issues that Black women have as me "dividing us". It won't work. I have a right to speak on that which affects me as a Black woman just as you do, and you have no right to attempt to silence while in the same breath saying you empathize.
You say that he asked to marry you. Would the fact that his wife has to go out and face these problems everyday be a "privelage" for him? No not at all. It is a hinderance for him, just like it is for you, because he's decided to stand with you as most black men do.
He does not have to face the issues directly because he is a man. He will tell you that with his own mouth. The issues I face as a woman are troublesome to him because he is a Black man who actually cares about a Black woman, me, and Black women in general. But they are not issues that challenge him personally.
Using your argument, there is no such thing as male privilege or sexism at all, because men and women interact and come together as a family, therefore if men have women they love they do not have privilege women don't. You cannot possibly believe that silliness.
You can talk about your struggle without comparing it to black men's or claiming that your struggle somehow equates to privelage for black men.
Because they are. Your refusal to acknowledge it does not take that fact away. Funny that you would accuse me of being divisive when its you that has been shirking Black male responsibility in Black female issues or negating them as problems all together.