The Gantt Report
 By Lucius Gantt
  Ladies, this column is for you. I have two daughters and what Iâm writing about is nothing that my daughters havenât heard from me before.
Sisters, you never know who youâll fall in love with. Most women want a âgoodâ man but what is a good man?
Well, an intelligent man will open your mind, a handsome man will open your eyes and a gentleman will open your heart!
No man, or woman, is perfect but if a man is honest with you you can deal with almost any situation as long as you know whatâs really going on.
Honesty, loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity, productivity, integrity, morality and other characteristics are not necessarily the first things that many women consider when evaluating potential suitors, boyfriends and spouses.
When women discuss men with each other you might have heard questions like, âWhat kind of car does he drive?â, âWhere does he work?â or âWhere does he live?â.
I told my daughters, donât worry about the car, concern yourself with the man inside the car, donât worry about the job, concern yourself with whether the man can provide, protect and perform and donât worry about where the man lives, concern yourself with how he lives and how youâll live together once you get together. A man can have a house but he needs a woman to make it a home!
Some women prefer to date thugs. Iâll be the last writer to tell women who to relate to but the thugs I know like THOTs.
Who wants to seek a romantic moment on a date to the Trap House? Who wants to plant a kiss on the plexiglass shield at the jail house. And, who wants to raise the kids alone when the guy youâre attracted to is never at home?
A good man will never put his woman in danger. Only a fool would demand that his woman jump in the car to go on a drive by shooting with him.
When you suggest that your man should kill someone that hit on you at the mall a plethora of terrible things can happen afterwards.
Life is a double-edged sword and any bad or harmful thing you tell your man to do to someone can also be done to him.
Men and women have to work together to stay together and have a good life. The Bonnie and Clyde life you might think you like might end up being a death sentence because once you start shooting at folk, people will clap back and bust caps at you.
A strong woman will never be happy with a weak man, and vice versa.
I know women have strong emotions but you canât let your emotions cloud the facts.
The man you chose is not necessarily the man he will become, he is the man he is right now.
If a man canât change or control you, tell me, how can you manipulate him?
Thereâs no rush. It takes time to tell what kind of partner youâre considering. You have to experience a man, or woman, in good times and bad, on regular days and on holidays, when the money is flowing and when the piggy bank is empty.
Black women, Black men canât make it without you. We love you!
If you run us away, who will kill the snakes and the spiders?
Brothers and sisters unite!
