I find it most challenging to get women my age involved in health-related discussions. It's as if we think we are not affected by Diabetes, AIDS, Cancer, Stroke, and Heart Disease; when the reality is that we are dying younger and younger. These are no longer "the gay man's disease" and no longer is the elderly white man the only one having heart attacks, the seemingly overweight person you come across may not be a diabetic, and yes your man and your daughter can get breast cancer. This is real! I am so tired of the "it can't happen to me" mentality! Its time to wake up and be responsible for our communities. Our youth are being reared by individuals who have yet to escape their pre-pubescent cognitive processes. When will the time come again when you can walk in the mall and know a child from their parent? What will it take to bring our women back to a place where they can be that independent business woman who still recognizes the need for the knowledge, guidance, intuition, comfort, and know-how that only she can provide to those lacking. We are so powerful, and most of us at our best have only nicked a minute amount of the potentiality we possess. And those who know the real know that our strength comes from and lies in God. He broke the mold when he made the black woman, and the funny thing about that is that every black man out there knows this to be a fact. If our men know this, why can't we see it? Why can't we accept it? If nothing more they see our beauty and strength during childbirth. We go through all that pain only to become weak once the child is here, no no no. If you can endure all that baby girl you can certainly take your place and be the woman you were put on this earth to be. Stand up and be you! Be counted! No one can do for this world what you can, you know what you offer us, give it to us. Give us your best. We need you and we thank you! I love all my beautiful sisters and I pray that this blog finds you in the best of health, God Bless you all.~Nikki
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