How to reduce black poverty

No condom,
No nookie! © 2015

Can this practice reduce
black poverty?

THE BLACKSILENTMAJORITY

The number one cause of black poverty in the United States may surprise you. It’s not those mean ol’ Republicans or the Tea Party. It’s not a minimum wage job. It’s not necessarily the lack of a high-school diploma. It’s out-of-wedlock births born to black females. When a mother has a baby out-of-wedlock, odds are great, she’s raising the baby alone with no financial help from the baby’s father.



It’s difficult enough for two-parent households to raise children. A single parent raising one, two, or more children on a measly income and a marginal education will face even greater money struggles than a two-parent family with two incomes. Odds are, she and her children, will be stuck in a financial hole for many, many years as a result of an unplanned, out-of-wedlock birth. This is poverty folks, and this is how it starts.

Prevention is so important.

Condoms are a low-tech, time proven method to prevent unplanned births. Most males, especially black males, loathe using condoms and so do some females. They think using condoms interrupts the natural flow of intimacy. But it’s not just about them. Black males don’t have to carry the baby, and too many of them don’t stick around to support the baby. Let’s just tell it like it is.


Therefore, females not only carry the baby, but they also have to care for the baby--alone. So, it’s in her best interest to be adamant about condom use before she has sex. No condom, no nookie should be her game plan. Let that be her mantra.

Females shouldn’t be too worried about the effect a “no condom, no nookie” practice will have on their guys. Trust me, if females insisted that a guy put on a shirt and tie before intimacy, the average guy would quickly adapt and put on a shirt and tie! If females insisted on condom use, most guys would get with the program. But females have to insist.

Condoms will reduce HIV/AIDS, unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and reduce poverty rates in our communities. Since females have to carry the baby and care for the baby, shouldn’t they have more say over when they have babies?