I've read that black women are reluctant to date white guys for many reasons, and I feel like those reasons are probably exacerbated by the complex
racial climate in the South.
It really seems like
the racial climate in a lot of places in the US negatively impacts the dating market because pretty much every black woman who went online here (in TO and Montreal) got herself a man within a short time, including me and I'm not even including dating though social networks like school and work.
Rather than construct a simply biopic of Baldwin, or a film about
the racial climate in America during the 1960s, Peck skips between time periods, showing us civil rights marches one moment and Black Lives Matter demonstrations the next.
Often playing like an Adult Swim version of Putney Swope, Sorry to Bother You is a brazen, insane work of social satire, ready to get as surreal and ridiculous as humanly possible while making a ton of amazing observations regarding our current political and
racial climate.
Black Lightning, which began in the US last week, overtly addresses
the racial climate.
Given the current political and
racial climate, where tensions run high, this revived interest in Draper and Kamoinge are timely.
It focuses on improving race relations, and since its inception it has awarded over 500 grants to organizations working to improve
the racial climate by addressing diversity and racism in its many forms.
If we disconnect
the racial climate from the lives of our black clients, we may be silencing a clinically relevant piece of their stories (the same hold true collegially within the organization).
I don't know
the racial climate of the area you live in... but if you are willing to adopt a non-white child, your adoption process won't take as long.