Saartjie Baartman


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i came across this on another messageboard about a year ago and an interesting point was brought up which might be fun to discuss here
if you all notice....white men DO NOT let their women be treated/talked about like that...a white woman stays on a pedestal
i think this is a great example on how this is not the case in our community...black men objectify and dog out thier women...and sit back and allow other people to do so
now lemme add a disclaimer and i understand our experience in america has been different, being that we were (and still are in some cases) 2nd class citizens
BUT
i still dont see black men "circling the wagons" and putting thier black women on the pedestal white men do
thoughts? agree or not?
Let me educate sista.
"When abolitionists mobilized to put an end Baartman's public display, she informed them that she participated in the spectacles of her own volition. She even shared in profits with her exhibitor."
I dont think yall read the articles.
Can someone tell me how this relates to the black womans experience
in america, or black men?
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Exhibition.html
This article does a very good explanation:
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/01/09/holmes/index.html
White women??? PEDESTAL??Let me educate sista.
White women have been the scum under white men's toe nails since the rejects of England came here. What do you call pedestal when the white man basically controlled the every move of his "woman".
If we all can remember back 50 years or more a white man found a young white women in highschool, married her, and made her have many kids while he had SOLE control of everything... While he usually cheated and whooped her ass. If she wanted to leave where could she go??? Mom and Pop's? The can't support all the kids AND the grown ass daughter so she was stuck 9 times out of 10.
The white woman usually only had the highschool education while having NO job skills because typically she never worked... Her idea was cooking and cleaning.
The White american man has slaughtered and enslaved even his own woman..... Pedestal? women JUST started voting for presidency... you'll THINK racist white men would let they're own KIND in women vote BUT NO. They had little more in rights than Africans.
Black people has let the "Dick Van Dyke" era brainwash us.... EVERY WHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD THE MAN AND THE WOMAN WORKED... HELL SOMETIMES THE CHILDREN WORKED THE HARDEST... Even in the Bible is says you don't work you don't eat and for the women just read the whole chapter of Proverbs 31. We can from Africa where everyone worked but now women want to get brand new LOL
Pedestal my ass more like a ditch with a high chair in it........




White women??? PEDESTAL??Let me educate sista.
White women have been the scum under white men's toe nails since the rejects of England came here. What do you call pedestal when the white man basically controlled the every move of his "woman".
If we all can remember back 50 years or more a white man found a young white women in highschool, married her, and made her have many kids while he had SOLE control of everything... While he usually cheated and whooped her ass. If she wanted to leave where could she go??? Mom and Pop's? The can't support all the kids AND the grown ass daughter so she was stuck 9 times out of 10.
The white woman usually only had the highschool education while having NO job skills because typically she never worked... Her idea was cooking and cleaning.
The White american man has slaughtered and enslaved even his own woman..... Pedestal? women JUST started voting for presidency... you'll THINK racist white men would let they're own KIND in women vote BUT NO. They had little more in rights than Africans.
Black people has let the "Dick Van Dyke" era brainwash us.... EVERY WHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD THE MAN AND THE WOMAN WORKED... HELL SOMETIMES THE CHILDREN WORKED THE HARDEST... Even in the Bible is says you don't work you don't eat and for the women just read the whole chapter of Proverbs 31. We can from Africa where everyone worked but now women want to get brand new LOL
Pedestal my ass more like a ditch with a high chair in it........
i have a different perspective i guess
historiclly women have been viewed and treated second to men...and this is all over the world and has been going on all the way back to the bibe
so in my opinion white men in america havent done anything different that anyone else
BUT
eurpoean beauty has always been the generalized standard of beauty...and im not talking about the "dick van dyke era"...it goes back to ancient rome and greece
white men may not have treated some of thier women the best but they dont let anybody mess with them
wars have been started over white chicks
back in the day black people were lynched over just looking at them
now what can we say what black men do/have done for black women![]()
What have we done? LOL What havn't we done??? I can't say the same for black women because I appreciate but for you to question what we have done for black women like we haven't is total disrespect. Some of the great black men not just tried to help the women but help the entire black race for every one black woman that you can name I can name a black man.
I would love for to try to say black women now because we are ALL fucked up as a whole. That quote alone just shows the sign of the times of the mentality of black people. At the least open your eyes.
Well........Time for me to hit the old dusty trail...........
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you are right... for every sojourner truth there is a medgar evers
historically both black men and women have worked collectively for civil rights of all blacks
but that wasn’t my question nor my point
i asked what has BLACK MEN done for BLACK WOMEN
martin luther king fighting for civil rights which produced women's right for black women as a byproduct is not going to cut it
black women have raised families...often without a male role model
black women have been objectified from saraa bartmaan to tip dril
black women make substantially less than any group but still have a higher employment rate than black men which now means black women have become the sole bread winner in alot of families
again...i ask...what have black men done for black women![]()




two important things:
1. i never said black women dont have flaws
nor i even insinuate that there are some black women that dont do much for our image or how we are treated...just like any group we have bad apples
what black women are doing for ourselves is a totally different conversation...and if u want...we can futher explore
2. do you understand how the "welfare" program works
in order to just get welfare checks you have to be claiming a child...why are alot of women on welfare? because they are usually the ones taking care of childern
it makes perfect sense not seeing alot of men on welfare...
personally i dont think any gender abuses other gov't funding like section8 or food stamps more than the other...so im not quite sure about your women abusing gov't assistance assumption
but all that is neither here nor there
back on topic
being a standup guy at home is definitely commendable...there should be more men than u
but again i ask...what have black men done for black women...specificlly not allowed thier women to be objectified like saara bartman
based off your response i should ask u think we are worthy first![]()
Worthy of what? You act like the women who go out there like that to be video hoes are mind less. You need to stop giving excuses and just be a woman and admit that they do it on they're own!
Thats like me saying why do black women stop the dudes from sellin dope?? Its not a fair question. Take responsibility not give excuses... no where have gave black men a excuse.
And you must be living under a rock if you dont think that certain women don't abuse the welfare system.
Its just funny when people who appreciate and see both sides... and dont point fingers... They seem to have a over all solution... But it seems like you pointing the fingers at one side like we're the destruction of the Black civilization.. Like black women are fucked from birth.. It seems like you've been scorned yourself... this is my 1st assumption of you but dam...
I've seen bad examples on both sides but I still love my black people enough to know that we ALL have to be responsible because pointing fingers and looking at yourself like you're the victim knowing dam well that scale is even in faults isnt gonna do shit but dig us in a dam hole.
And you claim white men havn't let they're women go into video hoe land and degrade like black men??? WHO IN THE FUCK STARTED PORN? WHO IN THE FUCK STARTED CUMMING ON A WOMAN'S FACE FOR THE SAKE OF VISUAL SATISFACTION??? HAVE YOU SEEN SOME OF THESE VIDEO'S THAT WHITE PEOPLE HAD OVER THE YEARS?? THE HEAVY METAL CATS AND HOW THEY GOT THE WOMEN? THE 1ST VIDEO HOE WAS WHITE WOMEN....
And you guessed it... White men started ALL that shit. So wheres the pedestal?
THE ONLY REASON WHY A BLACK MAN WAS LYNCHED BECAUSE OF RACIST MINDSETS.... It wasnt because they valued the women. Come the Fuck on get real... You can honestly tell me that they valued they're house slave "white woman" so much that they lynched a black man just for looking? They wouldn't have been house male slaves.
How can you explain Madame CJ Walker.... What did she do for black women other than help the fellow black woman subject to white influence. White man didnt like natural kinky hair so black woman played herself and made her hair straight.... DOMINO EFFECT.
AGAIN we should all take the blame....
I'll NEVER just put it on one gender or let a woman claim that a black man has never did nothing for a black woman. I know better than that. Pointing fingers don't do shit but cause rifts and makes problems harder to solve.



now what can we say what black men do/have done for black women![]()
You ask what are black men doing for black women?? ^^^ What are black women doing for the imagery and the examples of our babies??? Black men are still the the heads of the family. Black men STILL work hard and goto school. Black men still goto church and have a strong morality. I know ALOT of stand up black men who take care of they're kids.
I was blessed to be raised in a 2 parent home. So I can speak on VOLUMES on what black men have did for they're black women. My uncle sacrificed to help take care of his mother my grandmother instead of putting her in a nursing home. When my mother falls ill God forbid... I'm following suit.
black women have raised families...often without a male role model
black women have been objectified from saraa bartmaan to tip dril
black women make substantially less than any group but still have a higher employment rate than black men which now means black women have become the sole bread winner in alot of families
again...i ask...what have black men done for black women![]()
black women have been objectified from saraa bartmaan to tip dril
black women make substantially less than any group but still have a higher employment rate than black men which now means black women have become the sole bread winner in alot of families
From the 1st breath of man UP UNTIL RECENT... AND RECENT I MEAN THE 80's... The black man and woman co existed in perfect harmony. You act like you forgot the sacrifices black men did and have done for they're families (the woman is APART of the family FYI). You couldn't help seeing black complete families up until recent for many reasons. One MAIN reason was that we were ALL that we had in this racist land and the MAN 90% of the time worked to help SUPPORT his family just to come home and help raise his babies and whoop ass on his disobedient kids.
The black man didnt just come home and kick up his feet and said "Wheres my dinner Bitch" Like Whitey... He came home and continued the nurturing process with his woman. He is the authority figure of the house.
The times now are chaotic, but you STILL have GOOD hell GREAT black men willing AND able to be the other half of a beautiful picture. Now the Question is what are the women choosing in black men... Because its logical if a good black woman chooses a good black man it'll be a good thing.

^^^ WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT GOTTA DO WHAT BLACK WOMEN DID FOR BLACK MEN??? You act like black men haven't been looked at like wierd aliens and at the same time sexual objects. EVE ATE THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT AND CAIN KILLED ABLE MEANING WE DO WHAT EVER WE FEEL LIKE DOING. No body is making the women go on TV and whore themselves. [bold]You act like they're isn't THOUSANDS if not MILLIONS of decent black men saying don't do that shit.[/bold] [bold]You sound like one of these misguided black women in the hood that claim all they had to choose in they're hood was a dope dealer. LIKE THEY'RE ISN'T A SINGLE BLACK MAN WORKING ON EARTH[/bold]
wow....well i never grew up in "the hood"...both my parents aree still married...and my father has a job (he actually has been blessed with a job to allow my mother to stay at home and put both myself and my sister thru college)...so please lets simmer down with the extreme assumptions...u reeally dont know me sweetie
If it was like that why are they still many MANY black women still going to Tip Drill and Bust It Baby auditions. Why are they're so much internet hoes getting naked for porn pics still. Yeah I like what I see but I dont pay for the pictures I save and you act like the women are millionaires of this shit. You may have 3 making REALLY good money but the rest aren't. And most of the women don't have a degree/certificate of certification or EVEN a GED so the long term is irrelevant because all they see is quick money and when the body falls apart or just when they aren't popular (which happens 1st) then what?? They're stuck in the same dilemma as a dope dealer

And again I can't help if a black woman chooses a OBVIOUS problem in a man. They'res PLENTY of good black men out there. Don't fault the whole black male representation just because you picked a knuckle head that has 5 other babies mommas and has a jail record longer than the run way at Washington Dulles Airport!
Don't help bastardize our kids because of the choices you made that Tuesday afternoon at the mall in a mate. If you choose a good man you'll get great results.

More important that every black MAN know. They're the ones still exploiting black women's bodies (especially their asses, the more freakishly large the better).
Excellent info in the original vid...
But in the "Bust it baby" clip.. chick said... "my favorite trick is to swallow the dick and kiss the balls at the same time "![]()
I think desire's question was taken the wrong way.. and maybe even asked the wrong way. I think now-a-days it seems like white men put their women on a pedestal but it wasn't always like that, and its been known that white men like a woman they can dominate, so they weren't happy when suffrage hit.
What have black men done for women? Why do we as people need anyone else to do for us. Jus like in the 60s, there were women right there along side of the men. It should continue to be like that, us as people working together... stop focusing on what the black men can do for us.. and work with him on helping our communities come up...



Excellent info in the original vid...
But in the "Bust it baby" clip.. chick said... "my favorite trick is to swallow the dick and kiss the balls at the same time "![]()
I think desire's question was taken the wrong way.. and maybe even asked the wrong way. I think now-a-days it seems like white men put their women on a pedestal but it wasn't always like that, and its been known that white men like a woman they can dominate, so they weren't happy when suffrage hit.
What have black men done for women? Why do we as people need anyone else to do for us. Jus like in the 60s, there were women right there along side of the men. It should continue to be like that, us as people working together... stop focusing on what the black men can do for us.. and work with him on helping our communities come up...
Desire read this and understand that there are women who APPRECIATE there fellow black mate.




2. in regards to the second bolded claim...that might be very true...unfortantley for every "thousand" if not "million" of black men theres 2thousand or 2million encouraging the behavior...u can look at record sales...strip clubs...advertising and porn sites just to name a few to see that to be true
3. as far the last bolded claimwow....well i never grew up in "the hood"...both my parents aree still married...and my father has a job (he actually has been blessed with a job to allow my mother to stay at home and put both myself and my sister thru college)...so please lets simmer down with the extreme assumptions...u reeally dont know me sweetie
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Why can't you speak on the women who allow the black men to walk around with they're pants sagging, white tee's and stupid gold in there mouth? Why can't you speak on the women who allow black men to call themselves bitches. SPEAK UP!!! You so busy speaking on black men speak on black women. Don't act like black women are mindless zombies that don't have a mind for themselves.like you said...men have been the man of the household and leaders in our community...im only holding men to the title they feel they deserve...with this title comes responsibility
What have black men done for women? Why do we as people need anyone else to do for us. Jus like in the 60s, there were women right there along side of the men. It should continue to be like that, us as people working together... stop focusing on what the black men can do for us.. and work with him on helping our communities come up...
well wow...were do i begin
show me where i made this claim
im glad u brought this point up...yes the man tradtionally has been the authority figure of his home....with authority comes responsiblity
just like the gov't steps in an assits people in need...or even your supervisor that will step in and help u with something...as a leader there is a level of responsiblity and moreso accountablity...it comes with the territory
with that being said i dont think it is not out of line only to ask...but demand the black man take a more active role in the way thier mothers, daughers, siters and aunts are treated and perceived....its part of the territory as being a leader and authority figure...well a good one at least
never said there wasnt good black men stepping up to the plate...my question to you and everyone else is what are they doing?
id love to answer your question but i dont know what exactly your asking or why you are asking it...expecially in regards to what we are discussing
1. show me where i made the first bolded claim
2. in regards to the second bolded claim...that might be very true...unfortantley for every "thousand" if not "million" of black men theres 2thousand or 2million encouraging the behavior...u can look at record sales...strip clubs...advertising and porn sites just to name a few to see that to be true
3. as far the last bolded claimwow....well i never grew up in "the hood"...both my parents aree still married...and my father has a job (he actually has been blessed with a job to allow my mother to stay at home and put both myself and my sister thru college)...so please lets simmer down with the extreme assumptions...u reeally dont know me sweetie
where are u getting your information from
nbc news recently did a feature story on black women...according to them the ratio of black women to black men in college is 7:1
not saying all black women have degrees...but in comparission to black men we are getting a higher education in larger numbers
im not trying to "act" like anyone is anything...you are the one again making these extreme assumptions based off the facts i have presented
i will however agree with you...if there is no long term goal its easy to fall into stuff like being a video hoe or a drug dealer
again is it too much to ask to try to be mature and courteous?...you really dont know me
notice i havent made any assumptions about you or your life based on your opinions
i have been posting FACTS and u are all in the weeds
again...i have tried my best to be as courteous and mature as possible...please award me the same courtesy
like you said...men have been the man of the household and leaders in our community...im only holding men to the title they feel they deserve...with this title comes responsiblity
being at home and taking care of childern is what they are SUPPOSED to do...unfourtantly u dont get a pat on the back for doing something mandatory
in your words..."its part of being a human"![]()
Ha you "tried" to get the last low blow punch in. But you're the ONLY person with this view in this thread. While I have more than me with the same bottom line view of my points.clearly we are going to have to agree to disagree
dont take it personal but your points are becoming redundant...incoherent and worst of all unproductive
you continue to put words in my mouth and still arent reading what im saying
but it was fun dropping knowledge and discussing
have a great night![]()
. My words and point must count for something.
What have black men done for women? Why do we as people need anyone else to do for us. Jus like in the 60s, there were women right there along side of the men. It should continue to be like that, us as people working together... stop focusing on what the black men can do for us.. and work with him on helping our communities come up...