Black Women DO Support Their Men

So, I found this on Facebook:

This photo really pisses me off, let me just start off saying that. I don't understand for the life of me why Black women get this kind of wrap. If anything we should be at the top of the food chain when it comes to groups of women who support their men. Through slavery, apartheid, the crack epidemic, the down low and AIDS, through baby daddy drama and fatherless sons Black women have supported their men. We've raised sons and daughters in fatherless homes, worked 9-12 hour days to bring home the bacon to homes with no comfort and no support, and those of us who are married are many times forced to raise their husbands. Wedding belles for Black women do not always equate to the prepackaged white picket fence and Home Depot husbands that other races get. How much more do we have to put up with before we are given the credit we are due?

I understand that Black women still have many kinks to work out when it comes to tactfulness and ability to be vulnerable and feminine, but Black men have just as many twists in their chain when it comes to being a man. In American society, Black men are still at the bottom of the totem pole. Let's be honest here, it's no walk in the park being married to or with a Black man in the first place. So, its not a matter of other races being better wives or mates than we are, its a matter of the Black race as a whole playing catch-up. We often act as if Black women were not being raped in front of their husbands by white men for over 400 years a little over 100 years ago. We can not erase hundreds of years of pain and segregation from each other in just 1/4 of the time it took to create the divide.

We need to be patient with each other and stop with the Black people "isms." Black women and men are in a state of recovery that will not be easily healed. Rather than blaming Black women for what we don't do, how about giving both genders credit for what they have done:

Black women often raise great children in fatherless homes.
Despite the bleak African-American male unemployment rate, Black men make strides every day as entrepreneurs and high-level employees of various corporations.
Black women are currently seeking and completing higher education at levels higher than any other race/gender in the U.S.
Contrary to popular belief, Black men DO raise their children and are increasingly becoming role models and pillars in their communities.

'Nuf said.