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82.1% of all adult Black women over 30 years of age are either morbidly overweight or obese. SOURCE: Food Research and Action Center and CDC

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QUESTION: Since the rate of obesity for Black women is so atrocious, and the future is equally bleak, why does it matter?

ANSWER / COMMENTARY:

First, ignoring the facts or “problem" does not make it go away; because the overwhelmingly majority of adult Black women keep getting fatter, more obese, not healthier - and this has a corresponding negative impact of children, families, and access to and the cost of health care. Obesity was NOT a major problem prior to the "baby boomer" generation, but obesity is a MAJOR problem now, and especially for the current and future generations of Black women because it’s getting worse.

Second, for the overwhelming majority of people obesity is preventable, and as such being overweight is not protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Unfortunately, instead of Black women addressing the issue of their unhealthiness and low self-esteem, the overwhelming majority of morbidly overweight and obese adult Black women have aligned themselves to a “cultural campaign” (much like the public relations for general acceptance of the LBGT movement), which has become the prevalent stereotype that they MUST be perceived as desirable and attractive, and that men, especially Black men, should and must lower their standards and accept them as they are (morbidly overweight or obese).

Let's be clear, as much as it's inappropriate to "body shame" and to overtly discriminate against people for being obese, it's equally inappropriate, insulting, and arrogant for any woman to expect any man to be blindly attracted to a woman who doesn't care enough about herself to stay fit, to have positive values, and a positive outlook on life! Likewise, for those millions and millions of morbidly owerweight and abese Black women who believe in God, if the human body is truly God's vessel on earth, then consider the blatant CONTEMPT and HYPOCRISY women (and men) truly have for God [1 Corinthians 6:19-20], by allowing God's vessel to become overweight, obese, riddled with disease from smoking cigarettes, etc.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV) 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Nevertheless, 82.1% of all Black women over thirty-(30) years of are are morbidly overweight or obese, and it remains a constant challenge for healthy heterosexual men to find a Black woman who is both intellectually attractive (smart, creative, active, etc.) and physically attractive (actively engaged in her own health and fitness).

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Third, if Black people truly resent the constant decline in the health of the Black race, then it’s incumbent upon “responsible Black men and women” to lead by example. IF BLACK PEOPLE CONTINUE TO ALLOW THE CONSTANT PROMOTION OF NEGATIVE IMAGES OF BLACK PEOPLE, then they have no one to blame but themselves for the decline of the Black race. It’s incumbent upon “responsible Black men and women” to identify the hypocrisy of so-called Black intellectuals, athletes, politicians, entertainers, etc. (the Oprah Winfrey paradox), who allow themselves to be used as the perpetual, the constant token negative example of Blackness:

1. as the overweight, big titty, loud-mouth “Aunt Jemima” Black woman
2. as the nappy-hair, wig-wearing, extension-wearing, hair-falling-out Black woman
3. as the lazy, unemployed Black man
4. as the overtly religious Black woman and/or Black man
5. as the unmarried Black woman with at least 3 or more children from two or more fathers
6. as the big dick, unemployed Black man living-off of an employed Black woman or employed White woman
7. as the uneducated, overweight, unhealthy, poorly-speaking Black man or Black woman

Don't forget, historically, during and after slavery, Black people have always had the worst health and fitness, because they ate the scraps of the White slave owner (pig feet, chitterlings, fish heads, chicken feet, etc.), consumed food cooked in grease, and by law, policy, or cultural convention were prohibited access to health care, and much of these conditions remain in effect today. Should Black people continue to accept the status quo, and linger in a constant state of mediocrity?

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Excluding Oprah Winfrey, there are many Black women in the public media who consistently maintain a healthy and fit physique. Plus, as they gotten older, the absence of wrinkles makes them look ever youthful. As the saying goes . . .

Given that 82.1% of adult Black women are morbidly overweight or obese, why would an eligible, attractive, educated, and employed Black man find a Black woman desirable?? Why??? That’s right they don’t, because 82.1% of Black women (the overwhelming majority) have made themselves unattractive, undesirable. Likewise, the same can be said, but to a lesser degree of “eligible” Black men (if you can find one due to the extremely high rates of state-sanctioned unemployment, incarceration, suicide, homicide, etc.).

IN SUMMARY, WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE OR ETHNICITY, AN ENLIGHTENED, HEALTH CONSCIOUS MAN WILL LIKELY RESENT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT AS DESIRABLE THE IMAGES OF MORBIDLY OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE BLACK WOMEN. Accordingly, eligible Black men, the few that do exist, typically do not prioritize their search for a lover or wife to be a Black woman. For the past 20 years or more, no less than 25% of all Black marriages were to a partner of another race, and since Black men and women are not collectively making themselves more desirable to each other, there’s absolutely no reason for the increase of interracial marriages to diminish. Get it? Plus, the paucity of ad hoc health or fitness-based cluster groups, vegan or otherwise, do not align with traditional male-oriented activities, which can make it more difficult to find a suitable partner.

PROJECTION: As projected by Johns Hopkins and the CDC (#17 below), if the rate of obesity continues to increase, by 2048 100% of U.S. adults will be obese!

OBSERVATION: Since 82.1% of all adult Black women are already morbidly overweight or obese, clearly, Black women will continue to take a “leadership role” not only in the demise of Black health, but leading the nation into an overall malaise of incessant obesity.


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