Are we all really prostitutes???

I read an article on the Daily News that stated that prostitution is one of the oldest professions known to humankind...and also that even during this economic turmoil occuring in the United States...prostitutes have not seen a decrease in revenue..

The survey that followed was simple: Do you think that prostitution should be legalized? 78% of respondents agreed that prostitution should be legalized and 22 % of respondents indicated that prostitution should not be legalized. Now of course, we need more information to really get to the root of things. Such as, how many of the respondents were men and how many were women, the age of the respondents, the race, socioeconomic level, etc...all of this variables are valuable to assessing who has these views.

Many people shun the thought of prostitution, exotic dancing and any other sexual profession. I remember a long time ago, a pastor stated to the congregation, "if you hate your job, your prostituting yourself". What was meant by this statement, was that at the end of the day, you are still selling yourself, to make profit for someone else and you hate it. Models walk down an aisle everyday with next to nothing on and pose half nude on a regular basis, yet that is not seen as prostitution. Many women will not go out on a dinner date, etc. if the guy or female refused to pay and court them in a way that they feel warranted. I'm asking for you all, to step outside of the box, and think of many ways in which you are someone else you know may have prostituted yourself and then answer this question...

Should prostitution be legalized? Why or why not?

Educating ourselves- The Economy is bad

America, land of the free! America land of opportunity! America the beautiful, America the damn great!...and negroe's, jews, gentiles, asians, whites and latino's alike are all fearing losing their jobs or struggling trying to find one. Now if your wondering what the in the world this title has to do with the above lines....well if you listen, I'll tell you :)...One thing that I do as an instructor, is to make sure that my students know that it is OKAY to ask a question that they may think is dumb, or that everyone already knows. Everyone is talking about the economy is bad. People are scared they will lose their job any day now. People are fearful. But do we really KNOW what's going on? At the end of the day, do we really know about Roth IRA's, investments, 401K's etc. I never thought that we as a people, were ignorant, but we are, when were' too fearful to ask what we may think is too basic to ask the next person. Sometimes, I feel like I need to take Political Science 101 all over again, because do I truly know all of the facts. We all hear what they say on television, but do we really know what is BEHIND the messages and policies. So this blog, is not to give a quick tutorial on any of these things. But more of a proposal, to say why don't we start giving a fact a day...on any subject you want. Talk to your friends, family, co-workers, etc. lets stop having such an elitist mentality within our community, and lets just try to help each other out in the best way we can...if we do that, I don't think we'll be as SCARED as many of us currently are and we'll see what we can do to move forward and position ourselves in such a way, that we are self-sufficient and dependent upon ourselves..This can be done, just read about any history book....that's all for now folks!

Black Women in Business or Just Women

We've all heard it before, women just can't seem to get along. Even within groups and organizations that are geared towards increasing positive relationships among women, i.e. sororities, civic groups, heck, even women's day at church, there appears to always be some sort of obstacle to women being able to work in peace. Now the title of this blog is black women in business or is it just simply women in business, who allow power to go to their head? I recently did not show up to an interview with a black owned company that was ran by black women, because I have either been in scenarios where black women have abused their power and on every account have found a way to solidify that they are the boss and will say and do anything to demean another black woman and I did not want to go there.

Now this is the problem...I'm an African-American woman who works and advocates for equality for women and African-Americans and I don't even choose to work with my own people if I can avoid it, because again, there's always some type of drama. Will we ever be able to get along? If Michele Obama happens to become the 1st lady, will that increase positive interactions with us, or will it remain how it has always been..another jealous filled array of opinions from our "own"...either way, I see the current state of African-American people and especially African-American women in a slow process of complete denigration and simply stating a place of no hope for us to start treating each other better and like the old adage says, how they would like to get done...so I'll end it out with this, at this time, hell no, I don't believe that African-American women business owners have ever been fair or just. And I wait for the day that justice is finally distributed to ALL those who have done anyone wrong, business or otherwise.