“If He Wants to Act Like a Female, I’m Going to Treat Him Like a Female” ??

Chronically un/underemployed? Is “wifey”, “mama,” “big mamma,” auntie, sister, etc., at work on the plantation? If she breaks from the strain, will someone call her a “ratchet female?” Will you?

Here is a follow-up piece, to the one posted Monday night, Test Yourself: How DO you REALLY feel about Black females?, that critiqued the majority online opinion of black people that the black female on that Cleveland public bus, Shidea Lane, deserved the George Foreman-like punch she got from the black male driver, Artis Hughes, after she traded insults with him and spat in his face. It has been said by this chirpy majority, that Lane DID, indeed, deserve it because she is a typical “ratchet” female and one who was acting like a man and therefore deserved to be treated as one. Well, why not? Madea as well as both Shineanea and Pam of the long running series, Martin, can take a punch, right? And, so can Precious. White folks have convinced you that punching a black female is hilarious, right? Comedy is the flavoring that makes our degradation taste so sweet that we’ve developed a voracious craving for the poison.

What follows is a guest post by frequent commenter on this blog, LBM. Stay tuned. This blog will have dedicated coverage regarding this general issue until further notice.

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“If He Wants to Act Like a Female, I’m Going to Treat Him Like a Female” ??
by LBM (Loves Black Men)

I, for one, am ready and willing to have the discussion on why black male insanity is constantly trying to be understood while black female mental health issues are not even acknowledged. This is some B.S.. I could see within 3 seconds of the video that the young lady was not in a right mind. Someone even said she seemed “drunk.” Now, if every black male who got drunk and started acting the fool was cold-cocked from the jump, we’d have less domestic abuse going on. Anyway, that ain’t even my damn point. Obviously the young lady had something “unstable” going on. The bus driver should not have engaged her from the jump. There was plenty of jabbering going on before anything physical that should not have been going on. He should not have said anything about marks or cuts on her face – not knowing how she may have gotten them. Could have been someone who looked just like him that caused the marks. How ’bout that???? If a passenger could see that she was “impaired”, certainly he could see it. So my logic is telling me that he WANTED to assault this female. Why would he engage in even a verbal assault. He’s responsible for the safety of 30/40 passengers? Why is he arguing with ANYONE, let alone someone who is “mental?”

I don’t absolve her [Shidea Lane] of what she did but HE [Artis Hughes] could have chilled that situation out within a minute. He WANTED to assault her. NO WAY he would have dealt with a white female that way. So based on what he said upon his attempted murder, I want to know what it would look like if black females decided to say :

“If he wants to act like a female, I’m going to treat him like a female” OR

“If he wants to act like a child, I’m going to treat him like a child.”

How in the hell would that play out for the black male TODAY?
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