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LOL! I don't have any orange shoes at all. Those are a bit too much for my taste. I don't even have my ear pierced, but that comes from my mother explaining that men with their ears pierced were acknowledging their servitude in the bible. This has definitely moved away from the main topic but it's valuable dialogue all the same.

Time to start a new thread. The stories I could tell you about the fashion/footwear industry would align perfectly with this discussion on sistas and Jewish men, because this discussion is all about wealth and the perception of all Jewish men being well off. That's what this lady based her book upon. While I'm sure the percentage of successful Jewish men is much higher than Black men, the perception of success is a trick that this woman writing this book is playing into. I think this is what all of this is about perception. You have Black women that want to be seen as better off and happy. (Also on shoes, oddly enough the Jewish stores are the ones that had the original Nike accounts in NYC. Til this day, they only wholesale to other Jewish stores and will often pass up money in their face to do so.) Togetherness is a beast in business. I have to think that when a Black woman is with any other man, there is that lingering in the subconscious and those questions and stares that are always creating tension sitting there like the elephant in the room. While that's unfortunate, I just know it is the truth. In regard to the metrosexual, only in a fashion sense, and I sell them so I look sideways at people who actually pay the price that I sell the stuff for. I don't get manis or pedis, lol. I do like fashion though, but I have to; to try and conquer this sneaker world I'm in. You brought up the status symbol in shoes and I used to feel bad about how much I could charge people for a pair of kicks. I stopped feeling that way when I made my own brand and found it difficult to sell them to my own people. Of the 600 pair of ARCH brand shoes I made, my brand, I can honestly say 90% were purchased by white people. Which brings us back to the discussion of women and Jewish guys and black business. (Another aside, my Kickstarter was primarily funded by white people also). I don't know if Blacks are being victimized. We make a conscious decision to support other people. This is a recent trend though that I think has occurred since the end of the Civil Rights movement. Again, this is a completely different discussion, but I will tie it back into the BW and JM (Black women and Jewish men). Black women are the least likely of any racial group of women to be married. If they are married and divorced they are the most likely to never marry again. If this woman says look for love somewhere else, then I can't blame her. No person should have to live their lives alone waiting on a group of men to wake up and smell the money.