It’s poorly written in a sense of not looking at issues from the black community holistically. This isn’t to take away from the vulnerability that black women feel, which definitely isn’t spotlighted enough, but what effects black men usually effects black women as well. Yet the author chose to gloss over the numerous discriminatory factors in the past which have been barriers to the progress of strong black couplings. In the 70s-80s the shift in manufacturing from domestic cities to overseas production left many black people out of work. This in turn helped aid in the destruction of the black community as the crack epidemic exploded, police misconduct was rampant, gangs rose to power, blacks were segregated along “invisible” racial lines known as redlining. This is a contemporary version of Jim Crow. It’s effective because it’s subtile, tied into economics, and the people in power overseeing the movement in and out of an area are usually nonblack with ingrained stereotypes.
Over time racism is like a virus, it never truly goes away it just evolves to become less blatant and just as effective. It’s been effective in containing and reducing blacks to ghettos and less affluent areas regardless of SES. Which in turn limits earning potential, access to health/ jobs/ education and causes people to be dependent on welfare. The destruction of many black homes can be traced to the restrictions of welfare which made only single mothers eligible. This caused a rise in “shacking” to occur. While being on welfare or government assistance is never an ideal situation, it's disingenuous to not account for the systematic, structural, and subtle racism that hindered upward mobility of black males, females and the African American communities structure as a whole. The past shapes the present, so what happened in the 70s / 80s is relevant to today.
It's one thing to cut corners in a brief essay, but the author took quantum leaps by insinuating that black males, don't care about black women. She also insinuated that black men are quick to leave them for a white woman, once they are successful. There were too many immature and underhanded comments, that aren't even worth addressing. The author went from talking about the significance of the recent election to calling out her insecurities.
