I don’t know if like me, wherever you are in the world that women are often heard saying ‘There are NO good men’ and depending on your preference, this is swiftly followed by the phrase ‘Annnnnd, there are even less good BLACK men’. Look – I’m going to be honest with you, I too have said this MANY (& I mean MANY) a time, but surprisingly actually over the course of this year, a number of things of happened to make me dispel this myth and cause me to actually write a blog about it.
A lot of my close friends and family have gotten married/engaged to good black men – in fact when I think about it, most of my friends are in great relationships – I am the token single girl
A large number (and by that I mean more than 6) of black men have started working in my office – all of whom seem to be nice family orientated with good jobs
And I myself have met and been introduced to a number of guys who have actually changed my opinion of the state of the Black men in the UK.
Sadly I wasn’t interested in these said guys, BUT – they were all stable (mentally and financially), kind, caring, family orientated, friendly, on a decent career path etc and I was VERY much pleasantly surprised
I almost wanted to ask the question a la Rhianna ‘ WHERRRRRRRRE HAVE YOU BEEN, ALL MY LIFE, ALL OF MY LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Moving on, The Best Man Holiday -the follow up to the iconic Black Film ‘The Best Man’ opens in the UK (prob for a VERY short and limited time – which is ANOTHER blog post) and I am very excited for a number of reasons, not least because I have been in love with Taye Diggs since secondary school!
But more so, because I think the WORLD, and especially me and my friends in my little corner of the world in Bristol, England need to be reminded that there are some GREAT black men around, and if you look around you might just meet one and with a little bit of luck they may look like any one of these men!!!
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