Sunday, May 01, 2011

Love Your Daughter? Arrange Her Marriage

Interested in handsome young black men born between 1995 and 2000, vaccine free raised on a diet of non-GMO natural food for the purposes of marriage in 2020. Must be from a forward thinking family with multi-generational relationships. Preferably the young man will have been raised with a good model of marriage and fatherhood. If he wasn't fortunate enough to have his father in his life on a daily basis, his mother will have done a good job nurturing and developing his masculinity and preparing him to lead a family. Prefer athletic outdoors types with an amiable personality not unfamiliar with the occasional fist fight. Developed tastes in art, music and particularly Hip Hop a must. Plantation Negros or black men who call themselves "African-American" will not be considered.

nicki nicki tembo said...

Since you posting this again, I'll go ahead and comment this time.
I'm like a fine clothier. I have two dignified fruits from my womb that are capable of filling those specifications, 1996 and 2000 models.
Both were breastfed exclusively to around the age of two, unvaccinated, uncircumcised, raised on a predominantly vegetarian diet with occasional fish intake.

Products of wedlock whose parents, although divorced after 15+ years of marriage, have an alliance that sees to the continued support and rearing of intelligent, independent thinking persons, with an affinity for math and reasoning, chivalrous in nature with inclinations toward all that is good.
Will she be down when he calls out the adhan before the break of dawn?

36 comments:

Her Side said...

hmmmm. My son was born in 1999. We haven't gotten the whole food thing right, but he's well on his way (asking the right questions about what he eats) and I believe he hits the rest. lol

KonWomyn said...

LOL.

No fair! Age is nuthin' but a number.

My nephew was born in 2005, eats fresh food, he's vegetarian, and lives in a country where the sun shines everyday and there's no such thing as a Black 'minority'!

He's cute, runs like the wind and is a Basquiat in the making. His art pieces have already been featured in school calenders and he has a running medal to his name. Fighting mmmmm, well he can sometimes hold his own against his younger brother (a beast in his own right), but his pretty little face is going to get a few scars as he grows up.

Blackman said...

AMEN

Conservative Black Woman said...

lol....I absolutely love it (except the Hip Hop part--not necessary in my humble opinion)

Anonymous said...

Hip Hop is education CBW. Trust.

DV is aight w/me.

KP

Denmark Vesey said...

Her Side!

1999? That's perfect.

Don't worry about the food. We've got time to get that straight. If your son is as cool as his mom we are half way there.

We need to start talking play date!

Denmark Vesey said...

Kaaaaay Duuuuuub!

You killing me. Nephew sounds perfect but too young.

"He's cute, runs like the wind and is a Basquiat in the making."

"eats fresh food, he's vegetarian, and lives in a country where the sun shines everyday and there's no such thing as a Black 'minority'!"

Ahhhhhh man. That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about!

I want my daughter married by the time she is 20.

Nephew is going to be 15.

He won't be old enough to handle her yet and she's a handful already.

He got any older brothers or cousins?

Denmark Vesey said...

Blackman!

Feel me?

Conservative Black Woman!!

lol. Feel me? (Don't worry about the Hip Hop. We'll be on the same page soon enough)

KP!!!!

Exactly! Thank you my man.

Seven Half Store said...

I concur. I use to tell my dad to do this for me (had a chronic case of indecisiveness and one gets so tired of breaking hearts lol). Luckily my bf xoxo just might....well keep your fingers crossed lol.

At 20 DV? If you aren't the most forward thinking mutha...

Seven Half Store said...

With my friends I talk about how for the most part a woman's body is better suited for birthing when young, thus it's logical to assume that this might have been a part of the creator's master plan.

I think extended families are a great family support system and a number of men in my family either have their mothers in their home to help with the house and wife or send their kids to gramps as often as possible.

This provides solid character in a person, in my opinion. Although I know I wasn't at all interested in marriage at that age (just my personality)....I celebrate those who are. What are your reasons for marriage at 20?

Anonymous said...

My son, born 2000, strong African genes.

IWonderAsIWander said...

Funniest shet I ever read. You should be selling this stuff, cuz. What's the Boondock's got on DV?

Anonymous said...

Denmark... You are the man! This is the kind of mindset every father should instill in his daughter early on. Too bad all my father pushed was education when growing up. Spent my entire adult life educating myself and taking care of business on the job front, and none of my ambitions and goals in life included a man in them. Now at thirty something it finally hits that I didn't have my priorities straight. This sense of urgency that I feel now, I should have felt at 20 or even earlier.

Your daughter is blessed.

blackbullion said...

Love Your Son Too?

What are the reqs for his bride?

Denmark Vesey said...

"Love Your Son Too? What are the reqs for his bride?" blackbullion

Obviously.

She's gotta be the baddest bitch on the planet.

Denmark Vesey said...

Anonymous!!

Mwwwahhhh!

"Too bad all my father pushed was education when growing up."

Astute sista. Astute!

From a 3,000 foot view, what was pushed as "education" was designed miseducation.

Slow collective suicide packaged as "careers".

A memetic contraceptive implanted in the brain. An IUD to prevent families.

Kit (Keep It Trill) said...

DV, I can't resist. Knowing how Biggie treated women and his wife (like disposables and a favored high yella house negro), yet you be diggin' on him so much, would you have found him suitable for your daughter?

Denmark Vesey said...

"DV, I can't resist."

lol. that's cute.

"Knowing how Biggie treated women and his wife"

do we ...really ... "know that" ... really, Sista Kit? ... really?

"(like disposables and a favored high yella house negro),"

That's wrong.

If Biggie actually ... actually, "treated" his women like that ... why they love him so much even to this day?

I aint never heard none of his women say a bad thing about Big.

"yet you be diggin' on him so much," KIT

Yup. Great artist. Tremendous writer. One of the most intelligent and sensitive human beings of his generation. Yup. That's my man.

"would you have found him suitable for your daughter?" KIT

Nope.

But I wouldn't have found a young Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "suitable" enough either, so that doesn't tell you nothing.

Kit (Keep It Trill) said...

I guess you missed the movie. (?)

Just curious, why would you reject the young MLK? Was it his alleged cheating, or something else? I ask because he appears to fit your criteria, with the added bonus of selflessness, was gentle in spirit, and guided by the Spirit to leave the world a better place.

Anonymous said...

Most people believe they have to find "the one" when that is a perpetuated myth. Marriage is work and any two people can make it work if both partners are trying to rise to something greater than themselves rather than meeting in the middle. So, I can see the wisdom in arranged marriages. However, that being said, in all fairness it would probably not have any higher a success rate than people finding their own mates. And finding your own mate is much more interesting and exciting and a learning experience as well.

Besides, DV, why would you want to force your daughter to marry a black man when it appears her mother is a white woman? --OneLove

Denmark Vesey said...

"Marriage is work and any two people can make it work if both partners are trying to rise to something greater than themselves rather than meeting in the middle" Anonymous

Very true. Good point.

"Besides, DV, why would you want to force your daughter to marry a black man when it appears her mother is a white woman? " Anonymous

Nahhhh. That's a mistake common to Plantation Negros conditioned to associated beauty with whiteness.

Dumb Negros said the same thing about a young Cassius Clay.

Drop a beat and my baby black as James Brown driving a convertible Cadillac with a watermelon in the front seat.

Denmark Vesey said...

"Just curious, why would you reject the young MLK? Was it his alleged cheating, or something else? I ask because he appears to fit your criteria, with the added bonus of selflessness, was gentle in spirit, and guided by the Spirit to leave the world a better place." KIT

Sista Kit.

Great question. I feel ya.

Personally I love MLK. Probably one of the greatest men who ever walked the planet.

A prophet whom I don't hesitate to mention in the same breath as the brother from Nazareth.

But not for my daughter.

He wasn't street enough.

I think that is going to be an important quality for men to possess in the near future.

Anonymous said...

If being "hood", "thug", "g", "street", etc. are considered qualities to develop and emulate, then why would anyone want to change anything in the inner city? People do not stick around if they do not have to. Cube is filming “Are We There Yet? Part 5”, Snoop is bringing his kids up in suburbia, and I doubt even Biggie stuck around. How are young people supposed to improve their lives if they are told to not learn how to read or do math or speak proper English because it is not gangsta enough and they are just trying to pass? I have a few guesses. They may try to become a famous rapper. Maybe they will try to become a professional athlete. Or perhaps they will try to become the rich and powerful drug dealer glorified in the urban children’s songs they are weaned on. I do not know for sure, but statistically speaking, it is probably easier to become a doctor or lawyer than any of the above.

Words have conscious and subconscious associations and society is in part silently directed and controlled by those who know how to manipulate people with words. How about we instead instill qualities of courage, conviction, curiosity, dedication, perseverance, determination,... to young people and just send them to the hood instead of summer camp? --OneLove

Denmark Vesey said...

"then why would anyone want to change anything in the inner city?" A

Why would they want to change anything in the "inner city" anyway?

What's the redeeming social value of renovating ghettos?


"they are told to not learn how to read or do math or speak proper English because it is not gangsta enough" Anonymous

Who is "telling" them that?

That projection was manufactured entirely in your head.


"it is probably easier to become a doctor or lawyer than any of the above."

become a "doctor" or a "lawyer" ... then what?

Would I really want my daughter married to a Plantation MD in 2025?

2030?

Will they still be relevant?

Will they be able to make a living?

What makes you think an employee of the pharmaceutical industrial complex in the year 2025 is going to make a good husband?

Hell ... by then the "diagnosis" will all be computerized and the Plantation peasants will have their drugs distributed via robot like vending machines.

Some doctors will be kept around to surgically remove the occasional diseased organ from the few who can afford it.

I'd rather my little girl be married to a cat with experience raising organic vegetables indoors and slanging the occasional pound of hydroponic weed.

Come on Anonymous.

You are a smart cat. But you are stuck in old paradigms.

Anonymous said...

Ha! You got me with the pharmaceutical employee -- I am with you on that (I don’t buy into everything big pharma tells and sells and am therefore trying to convince my wife to not immunize our baby) -- but that was not the direction I intended. I apologize for not being clear. I was merely commenting that I think we instill the wrong value system in our children. Mass media and entertainment glorify celebrities, entertainers, athletes, and depending on the entertainment, criminals. If parents and adults are accomplices to this brainwashing and glorify those things as well, what do we expect our children to aspire to?

I am not dismissing the accomplishment of someone who has made it as an entertainer or athlete -- just the opposite. It is an incredible feat that most will never accomplish and young people should realize there are other options for them to be “successful”. Of course success is relative and depends on how you define it, but “success” should absolutely not be limited to sports, entertainment, and criminal activity.

Perhaps the problem is not as pandemic as I perceive, but many times education is appraised at a lower value than “street cred” or athletic ability. I did not manufacture that. I read at least two articles! :)

Select individuals have accomplished incredible things against seemingly insurmountable odds, so anything is possible. But, much of a child’s success at school or in life depends on his/her parents and the value system instilled in the home. While my father was not a college grad at the time (he later earned his degree while I was in my twenties), he was adamant that we did our homework and spent as much of his time as possible helping us. He constantly tried to motivate us to get the best education possible. He wanted us to be better than him. (Since you got me on the big pharma let me add this disclaimer that I know the true value of a college education is debatable. There are many ways to become educated. The point is to strive to learn and grow and improve -- not limit -- ourselves and instill that value in children).

As for improving things in the inner city, do you honestly think the majority of residents like it as is and see no room for improvement? None? I have not taken a survey or anything, so I am no expert, but I find that hard to believe.

Maybe I am stuck in old paradigms. I like to consider myself current, adaptable, and hip, but I guess I am a little old school (although, everything is cyclical, so old school may be new school eventually). I do prefer some of the old fashioned values to the new get rich or die tryin, bitchiz, and ho’s paradigm.

As always, thank you for your quick and witty commentary! --OneLove

Pink said...

DV, there's no doubt she's gonna be bad, she's freaking adorable now. But what are you gonna do when she doesn't hold up her end of the bargain? When she gets old enough to realize she has her pick of the litter and she wants to choose someone else, then what?

When you decide to arrange a marriage for Dimples, I'll fix him up with my niece. She's 1, a vegan, adorable, and she's finally starting to grow hair, although she refuses to wear bows or shoes!

Seven Half Store said...

Then he'll wilt like a flower like all daddy's do when under the unrelenting and innocent gaze of their daughters. He'll press, she'll bend him and what we will arrive to is a decision that little miss sunshine and daddy both agree on......but she'll be smart enough to say that it was all his doing. hee hee hee

Denmark Vesey said...

"The point is to strive to learn and grow and improve -- not limit -- ourselves and instill that value in children." One Love

fist tap fist tap.

Denmark Vesey said...

"DV, there's no doubt she's gonna be bad, she's freaking adorable now. But what are you gonna do when she doesn't hold up her end of the bargain? When she gets old enough to realize she has her pick of the litter and she wants to choose someone else, then what?" Pink


Pinnnnnnk!

lol ...

Ahhhh. Nah.

It aint going to go down like that.

Her daddy got too much game.

See.

You don't guide your daughter's choice in a men by telling her who to choose.

You limit her choices in men by elevating what she thinks of herself.




"When you decide to arrange a marriage for Dimples, I'll fix him up with my niece. She's 1, a vegan, adorable, and she's finally starting to grow hair, although she refuses to wear bows or shoes!" Pink

LOL. Now you talkin'!

Denmark Vesey said...

Then he'll wilt like a flower like all daddy's do when under the unrelenting and innocent gaze of their daughters. He'll press, she'll bend him and what we will arrive to is a decision that little miss sunshine and daddy both agree on......but she'll be smart enough to say that it was all his doing. hee hee hee

LOL ... Shiiiiiiiii.

What she won't know is ... I'll be acting like I can't stand the sight of the cat I want her to marry.

Throw her a little head fake.

"Snack! I Forbid you to marry this ... this ... Malik Taj Ibn Muhammad. Who cares about his organic vegetable farms in Costa Rica or his raw food restaurants in the Bahamas! I don't want his black ass around here again!!!"

Seven Half Store said...

LMAO!!!

raw food restaurants in the bahamas huh?!!

Tish said...

You don't like people that call themselves "african-american" either?

*CLAP CLAP CLAP*

thank God someone else is feeling me on that shi*

I have a younger brother born in 1997...

nicki nicki tembo said...

Since you posting this again, I'll go ahead and comment this time.
I'm like a fine clothier.I have two dignified fruits from my womb that are capable of filling those specifications, 1996 and 2000 models.
Both were breastfed exclusively to around the age of two, unvaccinated, uncircumcised, raised on a predominantly vegetarian diet with occasional fish intake. Products of wedlock whose parents, although divorced after 15+ years of marriage, have an alliance that sees to the continued support and rearing of intelligent, independent thinking persons, with an affinity for math and reasoning, chivalrous in nature with inclinations toward all that is good.
Will she be down when he calls out the adhan before the break of dawn?

dx said...

i think whatever you value for yourself will determined how you raise your children...but they will determine their own values (as they should)when on their own

raising children in a particular way doesnt guarantee anything...just like getting a college degree doesnt guarantee a "JOB" (if thats what you think)

there is value in a well rounded education...so also there is value in raising children in a wholesome environment

but you cant teach what you dont know

peace

Her Side said...

"Besides, DV, why would you want to force your daughter to marry a black man when it appears her mother is a white woman? " Anonymous

Home sick with cold/flu-like stuff today. I'm cranky... and bought a NetiPot and some excellent vitamins to fight with - instead of "TheraFlu" and the like.

Anyway, perhaps this comment caught me at the wrong cranky time.

I have two beautiful black parents... Mom choco brown and dad a shade of olive. Yet I've been accused of being everything from 1/2 white to Asian-mixed. My lovely choco brown son made a joke last week... "Mom, if I married a white woman and had a baby girl, she'd look like you."

In the back of his mind, even he associated something "White" with what he sees as my beauty.

When my youngest choco-beauty was a baby, he believed the rest of the family was black, and I was white. As a toddler, he upgraded me to "tan." lol

While in Puerto Rico, the natives thought His Side and I were also natives.

I consider myself just one shade in the beautiful rainbow of Black. I don't know of a single White person in my recent lineage, but I know of several Native Americans.

I'm rambling to plead: Don't default to "White" to explain the presence of a beautiful Black person.

Back to bed...

Intellectual Insurgent said...

Nicki, girl, we need to talk. That 2000 model sounds perfect for my little 2008 angel! And she will be down for the adhan (although we didn't wake her up for the tafsir this year)