Are Women More Oppressed Than Black Men?

By Nicole Nutting and Don Valentine

He Said:  This topic flooded my email box.  Nicole I thank you for your views.  We will print more of your thoughts send them to donqvalentine@gmail.com Thanks Again!

Barbara Mikolas

      Ha! You know too well that Black men have and still continue to be both oppressed and harassed far more than women. I’m sure more than one in three Black men can tell you daily stories about how they are discriminated against by the mainstream White community.

Women do get hassled by men, especially if they are young and pretty,  Even I have been subject to a date rape. Women still can’t take advantage of all the same opportunities as White men.

Chamika Mae Morris

Since I’m a Black woman that was a tough question to answer at first.  Then I gave it some real thought it was clear that growing up as a little girl in the “Jim Crow” days I saw first hand Black men endure things women never had to.

For instance, I never saw a sign at a cafe that read women “Enter in the rear door” .  However, I personally read signs that read “Negroes or Nig**S enter by the rear door.” There is no mistake that Black men have been more oppressed of the two oppressed groups. 150w

Betty Bender

    I honestly don’t think it’s either/or. I think it’s both. We’ve been oppressed, period. Women have been forced to take the backseat forever. Except in those ancient and rare matriarchal societies. Outside of Africa, Blacks have been horribly abused. ALL OF IT breaks my heart & is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Why are we so heartless, so cruel? What is WRONG with us? We forget we are creations of an Infinite Intelligence that adores every hair on our ungrateful heads. Oppression will end when we understand that we are God’s gift to carry love in the world!

James Wilson

There is no way any White person, male or female, has ever  been more oppressed than the Black Man.

The White women has not been inconvenienced with that type of  humiliation that close to what the Black man has had to endure for centuries here.  A blight remains on the White society a 155 years later. Reparations for slavery are still being discussed. Think about it:  did it not take a 155 years of struggle and procrastination to get the equal rights amendment passed for White women.