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Today’s Google Starred Items: Sheri Parks Re-examines the “Strong Black Woman” Archetype in “Fierce Angels”

Daniel Belton: “I always had conflicting feelings about the term ‘strong black woman,’ because it implied that black women were somehow more fit to take pain and abuse than other women, not taking in account that often there is no choice in this matter. You either have to take your lumps and soldier on or you can fall apart. Considering that falling apart would cause pretty much the end of everything, many black women in the face of adversity simply kept on fighting the best way they knew how.”

This “Black Snob” topic leads me to “Flippant Remarks about ‘Why women have sex’” and ultimately to “My Three Sexist Assumptions of the Apocalypse.” Here’s my little observation older Black women can enslave younger Black women in a Calvinist contest of self-sacrifice and self-loathing. Another one:  like most red-blooded Americans, the Black women of my hometown can sometimes swing to the other extreme from “strength” to incredible “weakness.” No ‘man’ is an island but too many Black women can …?

“Changing Africa’s Self-Perception, Changing How The World Sees Us”

Lola Adesioye: “I haven’t done any kind of poll on this, but I would contend that there are many Africans who also see themselves and their continent in the same way that the mainstream media portrays. I know that when we get together we can tend to have hours-long debates about the terrible things happening in whichever African nation. We ourselves often focus on the negative and can often feel overwhelmed and resigned at what seems like the sheer mountain of problems that need resolving.”

“Map of African Country Codes (Infographic)”

Appfrica Network: “This map visualizes the ccTLDs of the African continent. The country code top level domains of Africa are organized by geoposition, while the top countries are scaled to reflect the number of millions of internet users in those countries.”

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