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Because I am a grown woman I know what I want and what I don't want. It is always a crazy situation to me when someone tries to tell me I should do something else or stop liking what I like because they don't think it's a good idea. Well, in the past few years there have been several people who have tried to convince me of something that I can not see myself getting behind.

The thing they are telling me is that I should go ahead and give up on black men. They tell me that there are no black men available. They tell me that there aren't any more black men that what to be with a black woman. They tell me that there aren't any good black men left. All of these are untruths. Hearing other black men and also black women say these things are very upsetting to me.

Black men are just like white men, Chinese men, African men and any other man--there are good ones and bad ones. I am not so naive as to think that just because I have met a black man and things don't work out between that that means there aren't any good black men out there. What this indicates to me is that that particular black man was not the one for me. If you don't keep going through the No's you won't get to the yes. The only way to get to the other side of the road is to step off the curb, cross the street and step back up on the other curb. The same is true of finding love. You can't get to real love if you don't step out and cross. I choose to have faith.

I know that for me I was created to be the helpmate of a black man. No other race of man has the ability to have shared life experiences. I am in love with black men and I know that is not a road to nowhere. Steve Harvey said for a man, finding the right woman is like finishing the puzzle. A lot of times this is the key to opening up a persons full potential. I wholeheartedly believe this to be true.

I am the finishing piece for a black man!

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