Sorry, typo. HTLV-I
Go racism, GO!
The statement itself is racist, so calling out the response is one sided.
And, to be honest, that exact mentality is NOT doing this country any good, at all.
Letting black men slide on their fatherly duties because a 'strong black woman don't need no man' is retarded, and the results are evident every day in the news.
2 points for you.
1) There is absolutely no racism whatsoever in the statement, no matter how you look at it.
2) Another way to look at it is that maybe she is just trying to be strong given the circumstances she has been dealt in life. Nothing wrong with that.
two responses -
1) Why does color matter? Why it could not be 'A strong woman'? Bring race into it as a limiter, it's a racist statement.
2) That phrase 'strong black woman who doesn't need a man'... Used to much, to often. Sure, it may seem 'awesome' that they can make their way, but it's the wrong attitude. No woman, of no race, should just allow the father of their children, even if it was an accident, to skate by on his responsibilities just because 'I don't need no man and I can do it on my own'. I've got friends who are white single moms. I'm totally sympathetic to them. But when they let the fathers skate on shit, I let them know that they are not doing themselves, or their child, any favors in doing so, while trying (not always well) not to be an asshole in how I say it.
Citing the Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration denied immigration benefits to a married gay couple from San Francisco and ordered the expulsion of a man who is the primary caregiver to his AIDS-afflicted spouse.
I'm going back to the cats thread until waw re-twitter action starts up again.
Here's something for Dave to rightfully rage over.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/08/BAO71KKPEC.DTL&type=gaylesbian
Interesting bit of trivia...
How many stealth fighters does the US currently have combat ready?
The answer...
none.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/entire-u-s-stealth-fighter-fleet-grounded/
So stealthy, they make entire budgets disappear.
So, I'm guessing he did a dinner with Sean David too, eh?