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Should Black People Walk Away from Valentine's Day Spending?
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| 2/14/11
| Boyce Watkins
Posted on 02/14/2011 10:20:47 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
What a stupid question. More racist nonsense.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:40:12 AM PST
by
mulligan
To: Nepeta
Black family wealth is, according to recent estimates, as low as one-fiftieth that of white families, and millions of African Americans are facing bankruptcy, foreclosure and other forms of economic devastation.
But married two parent middle class black families have, unless something's changed recently, a higher income than two parent middle class white families.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:41:25 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: Libloather
“Someone decided that spending money is somehow a translation to showing love, which is an interesting, misguided relationship philosophy.”
Wrong. Women selecting mates who can care for them and their offspring’s material needs is a deeply rooted human behavior and not recently made up and decided upon by ‘someone’. Many aspects of human physiology, from the specifics of child-bearing to neurochemistry make it thus.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:42:24 AM PST
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: GingisK
I agree with your wife, and my husband agrees with you. We celebrated our anniversary just ten days ago, and anyway, as a general policy we don’t care for invented occasions that demand we spend money.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:43:10 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All that, plus a real-meat cheezburger and wine.)
To: GingisK
We went out on Saturday night, and skipped all the expensive meals.
We’ll get each other cards, and I might get some flowers.
Simple is nice.
To: Libloather
Black family wealth is, according to recent estimates, as low as one-fiftieth that of white families, and millions of African Americans are facing bankruptcy, foreclosure and other forms of economic devastation.
Yup, and they'll vote to re-elect Obama in droves, even though his policies hurt lower-income people the most.
That's alright - keep those blinders on and keep voting those liberals into office. After all, they're for the 'working' man.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:44:41 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
To: Libloather
The challenge of Valentine’s Day can be especially daunting for African American men, who struggle with unemployment rates approaching 20 percent. Black family wealth is, according to recent estimates, as low as one-fiftieth that of white families, and millions of African Americans are facing bankruptcy, foreclosure and other forms of economic devastation. -——————
Yeah and whites don’t get Reparations, Pigford and Pigford II, but they pay for it.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:46:21 AM PST
by
Freddd
To: Libloather
with advertising starting almost right after Christmas Here it started just before Christmas and Easter was tucked along side it as well.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:46:46 AM PST
by
teacherwoes
("It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society" -Gideon Welles)
To: pnh102
Yes. I understand. I was just joking.
However, I have a few friends who learned that the hard way. Sad to say but true.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:47:34 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: luckystarmom
My wife and I had a great time this weekend, and we didn't spend more than we can afford.
You can buy jewelry, flowers, and you can have a nice dinner without spending a fortune.... because we don't measure the value by the size of the expenditure.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:49:21 AM PST
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
To: pgkdan; scripter
Despite all my big talk I wont go home tonight without a card. Thats all Im buying though... i think that's sweet... i have all my Valentine's Day cards from my husband... V-day is my third favorite holiday--after Halloween and Thanksgiving... not because of expensive gifts... because of nostalgia... mu birthday is a few days before Feb. 14th, so i would often receive valentine-sy gifts on my birthday... red and pink wrapping... i like all the pink and red at this time of the year... and i always had a heart-shaped cake... today, after going to the gym and working out together, my husband and i went out to breakfast... later, after dinner, we will all (with our two boys) share a heart-shaped chocolate cake that i baked... he loves chocolate... i don't bake often...
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:49:36 AM PST
by
latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
To: Libloather
African Americans may want to consider letting go of “Valentine's Day, at least the over-commercialized part of it. For women, I suggest that you make a deal with your man: tell him that you don't want him to spend very much money on you — but what he doesn't spend in money, he must overcompensate for with time and affection. Your man will appreciate you letting him off the hook and he will hopefully return the favor by giving you a level of loyalty he wouldn't be willing to give to anyone else. Being a true partner in love means helping your partner become stronger, not becoming yet another drain on their resources.”
That's a pretty good plan for EVERYBODY.
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:49:49 AM PST
by
ryan71
(Dear spell check - No, I will not capitalize the "m" in moslem!)
To: Vigilanteman
Like one dude said "I see a lot more black people driving white Cadillacs than I see white people driving black Cadillacs." Why is that?
Drugs?
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posted on
02/14/2011 10:51:51 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: pgkdan
Well, I also buy flowers and candy because this gets me off the hook for a few months, till mother's day. etc. Besides I like Chocolate, and I get to share! ;-)
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posted on
02/14/2011 11:01:58 AM PST
by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
To: Libloather
I’m past giving a damn what black people do...
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posted on
02/14/2011 11:04:09 AM PST
by
FrankR
(The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
To: reagan_fanatic
After all, they're for the 'working' man.
All very true, they are for the working man. And while he's working hard in the fields, THEY sit on the veranda sipping a mint julep thinking how hard it is to run a plantation.
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posted on
02/14/2011 11:06:53 AM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
To: justlurking
A few years ago, Valentine’s Day fell on a Saturday night, and my husband and I went out on it.
Our dinner was expensive, and it took forever. I think it was a 3 hour dinner.
We had fun because we rarely go out, but I told my husband that I didn’t want to do something like that again.
We can’t go out when Valentine’s is on a weekday because we have kid duties.
To: Libloather
The writer is saying black women aren’t worth it.
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posted on
02/14/2011 11:13:31 AM PST
by
Crawdad
To: Libloather
I wonder...how many people ever ask themselves why a group that has been voting for one party for about 40 years has a 20% unemployment rate and the worst education profile of any ethnicity?
I’m betting black unemployment wasn’t 20% at the beginning of the Great Society.
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posted on
02/14/2011 11:16:22 AM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
To: Fiddlstix
I tend to get into the crass commercial spirit of both Valentine’s Day and Halloween. It is Father’s Day and Mother’s Day when I go bare bones.
This year I didn’t buy any gold jewelry but got my wife, mother-in-law, and children big silly heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, top-quality stuffed bear, and chocolate brands including Godiva, Whitman’s, Russell-Stover, Gheradeli, Toblerone, and M&Ms. Included some spendable gifts too. I’m cheap with cards because I usually make my own.
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posted on
02/14/2011 11:20:17 AM PST
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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