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He Got On & ...

KEPT Him a BLACK Girl It's the tale as old as time. Recently watching Jungle Fever (for the FIRST time) the women were complainig about the same thing in the late 80's,early 90's that they are complaing about now. That is,"Soon as he (a Brother) gets on he leaves for a white girl." However,I have noticed quite a bunch of black men who are married within their race. I've compiled a list of successful black men who kept successs and a black girl as their #1. #1 & #2: Will Smith & Jay-Z #3 Greg Jennings #4 Swizz Beats #5 Shannon Brown #6 Nick Cannon #7 Bobby McCray #8 Cory Hardrict #9 Carmelo Anthony #10 Big Boi Honorable mentains: Denzel, Duane Martin, Shaq, Steve Harvey, Boris Kodjoe, Snoop,Marlon Waynes,President Obama, Morris Chestnut, Omar Epps, & T.I. whereas MempHITZ & Daniel Gibson are engaged to be married to black women. So does this mean we can stop saying that now?

Shacking Up

People often say they do not want to live with a person they are intimate with prior to marriage. They say that shacking up is taking advantage of the purpose of marriage. Me, I just changed my mind about it. In order to say you are waiting for marriage,you must first know what marriage is. According to the B I B L E, marriage is God’s “fix” for the fact that “it is not good for the man to be alone” ( Genesis 2:18). Thus when man finds the right woman he will become "one flesh" with her. He will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Becoming one is the physical union of sexual intimacy. If I understand correctly, boy meets girl, boy and girl build a house together, boy and girl make house a home. Well in the biblical sense. In society's state of mind, it is totally different. There has to be a ring,a church,a dress,food,& witnesses. All that equals marriage & oneness. The pastor/priest/whomever has the "powe...