man you should've just led with this, would've saved me about 30 minutes

Ghanaian jollof with chicken & fried plantain >>>>

I can't believe this.

Right now i think Tory bust off a warning shot and it hit her in the foot.

There's no way he shot her and she was found in the car with him.

This s*** crazy.

Yessir thats why I just look at black Americans and carribeans, etc as extensions of my people. We are literally all the same.

I remember visiting my home country for the first time and going to a monument that was build to honor all the slaves that were captured from the very spot I was standing on, was a surreal experience.

Said it before itt but im gonna say it again

After seeing whats being said in here and on twitter, I wanna give a big congratulations to white ppl. U got the W this time

Either or, tastes so good.

How does that not make sense? Hes saying statistically black women who suffer abuse do so overwhelmingly at the hands of black men, and white women overwhelmingly at the hands of white men.

However asian women statistically suffer abuse more frequently at the hands of a non-asian man than an asian man.

This doesnt mean that asian men dont abuse asian women, it just means it doesnt happen as frequently as it does with non asian men - this is probably due to the fact that more asian women are in mixed race relationships than women of other races

Shut the f*** up nigga what are you talking about

Why so aggressive man

I said u got the W whats up w the hostility

Delete this shorty you Ghanaian?

Part one
My issue lies with the "black men are the white people of black people" narrative never denied that being a woman from a specific background can't be psychologicaly damaging/traumatizing.
ABUSE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Empoverished communities deal with alot violence on a regular basis that affects all members of said community. Women and children are often the most affected because they're the most vulnerable.
How are they they the most vulnerable :
children obviously need to be taken care of. They don't have the strength mentally/physically to deal with adult situations (abuse, violence, d**** etc)
Still, we see alot of young girls being taken advantage of (sexual abuse reports speak for themselves ) and young boys being trusted into gang activities at a young age
At 12min50sec he details how he got a gun shoved in his mouth for a chain at 13 years old

Women are at a higher risk of encountering violence because of power dynamics. Biologically weaker (generally) and not raised to defend themselves properly: mainstream culture caters self defense classes and fire arms to boys.
Asking men to protect women is a traditional mindset designed to ensure the survival of tge women from a particular family. Historically, fathers and brothers adopted behaviors and enforced rules to protect their children and women (chaperoning, not allowing women to walk alone at night, Women not being allowed to stay in a room with men that aren't immediate family members)

Women raised in dangerous, poor neighborhoods have a higher risk at encountering dysfunction in the family and outside of (if they're running around in these streets like they're pac).
Solely blaming men isnt solving anything. Solution,maybe living a more conservative lifestyle and hoping for the best or getting more tactics on how to protect oneself as a women (women only self defense classes, weapons that cater to women for walking these streets etc)

part two
DYSFUNCTIONALITY IN OUR COMMUNITY
The dysfunctionality in families isn't a black men's invention either, any person with untreated mental health issues (depression, addiction, ptsd) has a higher of perpetrating cycles of abuse. I believe that a great example of this is eminem's mother : a teen mom who had her set of issues, financially struggling and barely holding it together. (you guys might laugh at me mentioning this but its very telling of how poor America's social security net is, especially for the most disenfranchised)

There are many examples of dysfunction within black families, and the violence is perpetrated by all agents (men and women)
Examples:
r. Kelly Brothers detailing sexual abuse by older sister

rapper/artist azealia banks abusive mother
"Her single mother raised her and two older sisters in Harlem, after their father died of pancreatic cancer when she was two years old. Following her father's death, Banks says that her mother "became really abusive—physically and verbally"
actress Sheryl underwood on her sexual abuse

Lisa Simone, nina Simone's daughter. Nina was in a abusive relationship herself and turned suicidal with a host of mental health issues.
"She went from being my comfort to the monster in my life. Now she was the person that was doing the beating, and she was beating me."
Source : daily mail article on the Netflix documentary" what happened miss Simone" dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3138134/Abandoned-abused-suicidal-Nina-Simone-s-daughter-52-reveals-abuse-hands-mother-shocking-documentary.html

Only accounting for the struggles of one particular group is detrimental to the collective as the causes of important issues aren't being adressed. I sounds like a cop out : "if only insert scapegoat group here would act differently, we would be better of." There's no solution either as you can't wait on every single faulty black man to change their mind about their individual twisted reasons for being harmful to women. I don't see it as a viable avenue for change.

We should differentiate between the average person forced to live in this environment and thus heavily prone to perpetuate cycles of abuse from criminals who actively benefit from it (gangs, d*** cartels...) .

When talking about the average person in these circumstances, I believe that demanding better living conditions/infrastructures and programs are key (mental health facilities, normalizing therapy). To the best of my knowledge, these issues are adressed as there are facilities and organizations wanting to give disenfranchised communities better acces to the means to heal themselves.

Part three
CRIME HAS NO IDENTITY
As far as criminality is concerned, we have to accept that human beings can be individually motivated to do harm for selfish gains
Men represent a large fraction of this however women are in it as well as 42% of human trafficking recruiters are women despite 80% of the victims being girls/women.

Source: humantrafficking-moderndayslavery.weebly.com/maps-and-statistics.html

RUNNIN THESE STREETS
the ones who use their power to do good (Street justice) are the ones to be meddled with. Tupac's approach to this was a remarkable one, talking to the street dudes about how they could do better for their community.

Addressing issues in the community with his music

side note: hip hop with positive messages for black people and particular black women in hip hop - queen Latifah "U.N.I.T.Y" >>>>
Street justice caters to women particularly even at the detriment of other men
See the case of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz murdered at the age of 15,by Latin gang members

HOPE
Wanting better for the people isn't a struggle that only black women bear. Historically, black women have worked alongside black men: the black panther party (60s civil rights movement) even had reverse gender roles as women carried guns too and men made breakfast for their breakfast program as well. As a matter of fact they're are schools where black boys get taught how to behave properly around women and I'm sure that a majority of households carry that message. (if they're not dysfunctional
Examples:
It's okay to cry

Speaking life, not death into our sisters

LMFAO no

I use to have a lot of african people in my social circle when I lived in the city

He’s a dumbass always saying dumbass s***

Im down to watch the live idk about participating though.

Man posted T-pac and R. Ke-ly

You're right been a while since I seen the chart.

Point still stands though. I personally still would not have combined them because it does highlight the young black men who don't have a chance in their 20's and I would correlate that with low college turn outs also.

You need to try Senegalese jolluf, we the people that created it

@DonutHole earned this like

I had no idea honestly, maybe when I get back to the city I’ll see if I can get some 😬