Friday, August 5, 2011

IS SLAVERY BEHIND OUR LOW BREASTFEEDING RATES?

AN article in BLACK AND MARRIED WITH KIDS.COM by KIMBERLY SEALS ALLEN  she talks about this on world breastfeeding week, she says that for the last 30 years African American women have had the lowest breastfeeding rates of all ethnicities, she talks about maybe the reason is that during slavery black women were forced to nurse the slave masters infant denying the affection and nurturing for their own offspring.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

UNEQUAL DRUG LAWS

BLACK males make up the largest segment , 44%, of all prisoners serving time for drug offenses although they are only 12% of the population while whites who are 75%  of the population make up only 27% of  imprisoned drug offenders.   my message to blacks is, stay away from drugs period, don't sell it, buy it, or use it and you won't have to worry about the unequal drug laws.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

DO BLACK PARENTS FAIL THEIR KIDS

MAYOR BLOOMBERG of NEW YORK caught a lot of flax when he said recently that 'low-income parents who never had a formal education don't understand the lifelong value of an education'
  in my opinion that is the problem, parents not making education a priority in the home.

SHOULD HAVING OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN BE AGAINST THE LAW?

Should obese children be removed from their homes and placed into foster care?  32%  of U.S. children 2 to 19 are obese.  2 Harvard researchers call for the states to use governing child abuse and neglect laws to pull dangerously overweight kids out of their homes,  saving them from diabetes, strokes, heart attacks,cancer, and other life threatening diseases.

Monday, August 1, 2011

CAN A WOMAN RAISE A BOY TO BE A MAN?

This was an interesting article in your blackworld.com  men and women differed on their beliefs. while most men don't believe a woman can (31%) most women believe that they can (49%).  I believe that whatever the gender of the parent the kid must be  their no.1 priority  pres.OBAMA was raised by a single mom.  can a man raise a girl to be a woman??