tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016378587242424045.post2202027468783113910..comments2023-10-31T05:23:38.176-04:00Comments on The Book of Jackson: Open Letter to My Sisters, by April RogersonDr. Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04539594257560675395noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016378587242424045.post-87890574262685943142010-03-04T20:32:11.221-05:002010-03-04T20:32:11.221-05:00I agree 100% percent with this letter. We as Black...I agree 100% percent with this letter. We as Black women must become more submissive and less defensive with our fragile yet strong black men. We need to motivate and uplift our men more, we seem to bring them down. Instead of saying Nigga go get a job how about baby i'm proud of you for trying...try to understand and experience his situation.We black women want to be so self righteous and argumentative. For once no smart mouth and black lip just give the situation time to diffuse. Address the problem in a subtle/peaceful/assertive manner. Being submissive and sweet can get you a long way. Stop wrrying about being played or looking soft...because if you are confident in your life choices you can never be played.Women don't understand that just as well as men have power over us we too have power over them more of us need to learn how to use it.Make sure you are happy because if your not happy you will not know how to make someone else happy properly.Get to know yourself and who you are don't expect the man to know if you don't he shouldn't know more about you than you know yourself and 9 out of ten he will not. And to Aba no you are not supposed to be mother to anyone but your children but you are supposed to be a woman and don't go looking for daddy either because your man is not suppose to be him.We need to find out what being a woman is.Make sure you have a good relationship with god and are intouch with your spirit and look for a man who is also.And if you see a brother or sister that you can help please do it, it will make our people better and our relationships.Yes our beautiful brothers have problems, we need not think about fixing theirs before we fix our own.And pleas,please,please do not tell your friends your business.And just in case you don't know i am a strong black woman, who knows what being one is. <br />With so much love for us that sometimes it hurts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03969109392747913359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3016378587242424045.post-48744659234801875422010-02-05T17:01:16.804-05:002010-02-05T17:01:16.804-05:00Um men need to grow up and stop looking for women ...Um men need to grow up and stop looking for women to come and mother them. same goes for the women, who sit there and let the man do everything. there has so to be a balance<br />We are in the day and age when both men and women go out to work, come back at 5.00pm and then the man sits his behind in the sitting room waiting for the woman to serve him and pamper him. did you realize that maybe just maybe Im just as tired as you and my boss gave him just as hard as a time as you got?<br />The dynamics of relationships has changed. this is the time where both parties in the relationship need to pull their weight together to make things work. It is unfair to start applying the principles that worked eons ago because the structure is totally different. <br />Why should the man be praised because he helped with the diapers? um are you not my partner, didn't we fuck together to bring that little rascal into this god forsaken world? why should I lose sleep and you snooze your life away when we have to both be at work by 8.00am.<br />If a woman is a housewife then the above does not apply with her, she better have hot dinner for him when he gets back from work...<br /><br /><br />I am sorry something is disturbingly wrong with the authors argument..Adahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12099059557885510619noreply@blogger.com