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ESSENCE: In the chapter “What We ‘Say,’ ‘Mean’ and ‘Do,’” you include a letter from a male a friend of yours that discusses overcoming internalized racism and fear of the opposite sex as the key to solving many of our relationship issues. But we’re talking Black-on-Black love; how does racism play a part?
Hill Harper: We’ve subconciously(sic) bought into what America tells us Black people are. We have a deep-seated mistrust and fear of one another that we have to get past.
Hill Harper: We’ve subconciously(sic) bought into what America tells us Black people are. We have a deep-seated mistrust and fear of one another that we have to get past.
My brother somehow ended up subscribed to essence magazine. I had never read one, but thought this was interesting. They include this stat, “64% of African-American women have never been married, while 57% of White women have”. Hmmm…one positive and one negative. Why not just say 46% and 57% have been married? Hmm
