[CosmicAscension]

I listened to Tariq Nasheed's response to CNN's 'Black in America', and due to personal experiences I had to agree with some of what he said. He talked about how they put most of the blame on black men and used the old "There's no good black men out there" tactic. He said that that is bullshit, there's good black men but when black women encounter them they call them 'nerds' or say that "they ain't got no swag". And then when the 'nerds' become lawyers and doctors those same women want to be with them but by that time the 'nerds' are able to provide for a family, and therefore they have options which means that they aren't going to go for those women who've spent their youth chasing guys with "swag" and gold teeth. This cycle is something that I talked about years ago but it was good to finally hear somebody who saw the cycle the way I do.

I know that this isn't talked about much but it is something that we need to address because secreting the issue away makes it nearly impossible for productive black relationships to form. As John Legend (self-proclaimed nerd) put it, we have to make it cool to be smart again. We have to make knowledge be seen for the power that it is and not as 'soft', so that our women don't lose out on good men.