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Why Black Women Must Be Strong:

Yolanda Sumlin · Thursday, July 2nd 2009 at 3:27AM · 568 views
Today my husband whom I love dearly came home from work smelling like the fisherman he is sat down with me and "said honey we need another boat" after we have just 3 months ago bought not 1 but 2 packing houses in Florida. This man now want to buy another boat to bring home more fish, to work longer hours and not to mention to see him less. Why am I angry with a man like this? Let me tell you sisters he is everything any wife would be glad to have even with the fishy smell. He cooks, he takes care of the kids and treat me like a queen. But what my husband is all about is trying to feed the world to people who don't care about nothing that he does to help them. This why I am angry because I hate that people are just taking advantage of him and then it hit me. I wonder what Mrs.King and others felt like? When their husbands were fighting for people who didn't care about them. How dare I this so call wife of weakness of what it really takes to be strong. My husband is of the strong and I am of the weak because I have lost my place of being spoiled with fear, poverty, deception,doubt and mis-trust.
We black women must lead by standards and princibles rather then life's false security. We wives and mothers must learn how to be mothers and wives again. My husband reminds me of my father and grand father he is teaching me the true meaning of love and strenght along with the meaning of being commited. I have learned that I must be strong to have a man like this and how very proud I am that God has truly given me a gift of not only witnessing the true meaning of love but the wisdom to reconize it. That is what I wanted to share with you, that true love is not shallow version of what we see on T.V. or read about in a romance novel, it is the one that is being lived by example. Yolanda Sumlin. By the way we are giving away free organic food as a sample package to get people eating healty meat and seafood thanks to my husband. Our website is www.affordablefoodnetwork.com

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Yolanda Sumlin Oakdale, LA

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Zhana Books Thursday, July 2nd 2009 at 6:04AM

Yes, we need to put up with stuff we don't want to if we really love our partners - be we men or women, Black or white.

But some men also need to learn to take care of business at home first, before trying to feed the world. Some women have this problem as well.

We need to be strong for ourselves first, before we can be strong for anyone else.

Check out my article on Strong Black Woman Syndrome:
http://www.redroom.com/articlestory/strong...

Jen Fad Thursday, July 2nd 2009 at 6:38PM

Yolanda I hear you sister girl though I think it's a challenge just being a woman Period!! Yesterday I was in the city park with my 4 year and this older man comes up to sit on the bench. I told the man that I was saving a seat for my husband who had left to get something out of the car. This man was yelling and screaming still expecting me to move down so he could sit. Girl friend it took every thing in me not to hit that man when he called me a racial slur as he was leaving out of frustration.

Being a wife and mother is even tougher, but I will say that like Sister Betty did with Brother Malcom she warned him about the wolves in the NOI that didn't mean him well. Perhaps your husband doesn't realize that he's being used or abused by people. I would try to sit him down and speak with him.

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