Learn how
to Swirl
How to date, mate and relate. Mixing race, culture and creed.
Check out what this hottie has to say about race, racism, and interracial relationships in America
After May 15, I’ll be expecting to be on your Christmas, Kwanza and Hannukah cards because the mother of all book signings is happening in Los Angeles, and boy oh boy, we’ve got some goodies for only the first 25 people who arrive at Eso Wan book store–you know that one, where BARACK OBAMA and BILL CLINTON came down from Heaven to sign their books. And because I know people, I’ve got some folks really, REALLY excited about getting all of your First Date Ready (FDR). We want you to be FDR inside AND out, so get a relationships book like “Swirling” to get your mind right, and I’ll take care of the rest.
A major issue is that when a group of African Americans try to other the undesirables that exist within our ethnic group, they get hit with the “Uncle Tom”/”Traitor to their race” label. The idea being that WE need to stick together NO MATTER WHAT (level of dysfunction must be allowed or tolerated) in order survive as a single race.
If were born in the 60′s and 70′s, you know this woman, and chances are, you wanted to BE this woman.
“Look ladies…The ‘You Go Gurl’ crew is determined to co-sign us right into a life of loneliness, despair and early grave. Black women…I want you to be at your prime, in tip-top shape. Someone who doesn’t care would not take the time out to share these things. Please examine the spirit behind ‘You Go Gurl’ factions. This notorious group is interchangeable and can be comprised of any gender, sex, political affiliation or religious background. These are the people who have an interest in maintaining a certain hierarchy.”
Listen close to a natural styling method he uses that’s easy enough for you to do at home.
You guys know I’m a serious yoga-hippie. So when I got the opportunity to interview the most beautiful, kick-arse-iest star of the “yoga flow,” Shiva Rea, I had to compose my giddiness and maintain some level of professional decorum. So you’ll only hear minor gushing.
Too many black men treat black women like they are not to be valued. Are we to be toyed with, should we be happy to be part of a harem of other women, and then wait for black men to figure out when they are ready to date us exclusively? Sisters it is time for us to change the game!
Issa Rae, the young woman who’s been behind all of us laughing or arses off, gives BB&W and exclusive interview, with spoiler alert!
Ralph Richard Banks Joins the Commenters at Beyond Black & White
“… I have been struck by how vehemently some black men oppose black women’s efforts to expand their options to include men of other races. … All this while black women confront the smallest pool of viable partners within their group. Yet some suggest that black women should…wait for a black man, put their life on hold, or put up with relationships problems that would never wish for one’s own daughter. I try to understand this, but frankly it puzzles me. Women may regard black men as brothers, but those brothers don’t love them as sisters.” — R. R.Banks
Continue Reading »