Why Are Black Women's Suicide Rates So Low? (Serious Thread)

[Oceanicpuppy]

We all descend from the mitochondrial dna of a black african woman.

 

[egobiggs]

Suicide stems from envy and loneliness generally

A lot of BW come up in lower middle class inner city neighborhoods where there's nobody to envy and its hard to be lonely due to houses being close together.

 

[KingTut]

Damn didn't know Native Americans suicide rate was up there like that

Then again I spent some time on a reservation and can see why they would off themselves in droves. White people really screwed them over man. Ain't shyt popping on the reservation and when the young people who do make it out and go to college never end up coming back.

 

[Theraflu]

@Poitier it got moved back

 

[Theraflu]

@concise in the future don't move my threads especially when i specify that they are serious threads of a broad topic not limited to race.

thanks.

 

[capt_saveahoe]

Religion, low societal expectations and having the highest self esteem of any group in America.

 

[I Lord Justice]

I mean good grief.

 

[KenyaDoll]

Resilient than motherphocker

Resiliency is the perfect word. I think it describes the black race as a whole. We has a race have been through so much trauma, but still we rise

 

[KenyaDoll]

Mya Angelou's Still I Rise has been my favorite and go-to poem for encouragement since I was 15 years old. I know that no matter what life throws at me, I can figure out how to come out on top. Whenever I encounter a friend who is feeling low or defeated, I LITERALLY break out this poem and make her read it with me.

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

 

[Blackking]

this can't be a new study because we've discussed this in HL long ago.

it's because of religion (Black women being the first and Most spiritual people on Earth) , connection with family and church, a life of dealing with hard times.... not having as much of a feeling of entitlement as any other group on Earth.

Plus the black community and most black men LEAN on them... some of them have woman type responsibly at early ages.. When you know an Entire people is counting on u ... you stick shyt out.

Plus black women are the worst a killing in General. By far. They are the best at producing life , happiness, and fulfillment... by far.

 

[Carter G. Hoodson]

Because they are the strongest being on the face of the planet. They are not like the cracker women.

 

[mrken12]

And we're back.

 

[Theraflu]

And we're back.

we did it!

 

[BillBanneker]

New research is being done at Colombia to try to figure this out. The military has been studying black women for awhile, they still can't come up with anything. Actually, they did. I haven't kept up with the study. I think it comes down to survival. The more you are coddled, the more you are, well, weak.

http://thegrio.com/2012/06/13/black...-studied-for-prevention-of-military-suicides/

For the past 30 years, year after year after year black women have the lowest suicide ratest of every gender and race group in America.

Considering black women are the probably one of the least supported and the second most targerted group on the planet, high level of single parenthood, economically disadvantaged, constant studies to tell them how 'undesirable' they are, they still have the highest level of self esteem amoung younger women and the lowest suicide rates.

Why do you think this is ?

Some think it is because black women are use to having no privilege. I am not saying that no black women have privilege, but as a group, in America black women have little to no privilege collectively. IMO.

So when life gets tough its just business as usual. perhaps ?

In your personal opinion why do you think black women are the group in America less likely to kill themselves compared to everyone else? Perhaps if people can find out why these coping mechanisms can be used to help other groups.

btw @concise don't move my shyt. This is a mental health/serious thread not a race baiting thread.

 

[Theraflu]

Yup. Naturally high self-esteem.

is it genetic