Renegade_Jasmine

My sister and I were having a conversation about this a few weeks ago because of the whole fiasco with Will.i.Am. He lost our support because even though he is supposedly trying to promote safe sex amongst the black community, he stated outright in an interview that he thinks that its "wrong" for a woman to have stash of condoms of her own--just in case. Maybe I could understand that if she kept her condoms in a big old candy dish on the kitchen table for all the world to see, but he didn't even think it was acceptable for a woman to keep one or two in a drawer. As for the lack of initiative for black women to take safe sex upon themselves, I have two opinions: A) A load of black women and teenage girls alike can be extreme doormats. There were girls in my high school who suffered pregnancy scares or got pregnant the year after they graduated because "Their men didn't like to use condoms and they just couldn't tell them to put them on". That submissive attitude could be the result of fatherless homes, but many of the girls I knew actually did have father figures so I don't really know what else to add. B)Black people in general have the worst case of "It Can't Happen To Me/But I Only Did It ONCE" syndrome ever. That can be attributed to ignorance, arrogance, or poor health education (which is a problem in a lot of inner cities. I went to a magnet school, but our Physical Ed./Health teacher avoided the issue of sex like the Red Death).