The Financial Prostitution Of Black Women Disguised As Black Love

“For many black men, black love is a come up, hand out, or leg up disguised as partnership and black empowerment.”

“A wife is not required to help a man provide, help build his business, nothing. So embarrassing. That’s strictly her choice or it’s abuse. Black wives need to be treated delicately. We aren’t your mules and you are not slave master #2.”

Ro Élori Cutno

I have always been disgusted by black women who start businesses with their black male partners or hire them as employees and managers of their businesses. From Mary J. Blige to Tasha Smith to Wendy Williams, I have seen how the concept of black love, a lie sold to us by black men, completely fucks black women over as it relates to business and money.

There is a famous saying that goes, “What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is yours.” This quote can definitely work for two people who come together as one in a relationship with equal assets and an equal desire to fulfill each other’s needs. However, black relationships are the exception.

Black women are disproportionately more educated, have better credit, earn a higher income, and own more material assets that appreciate in value than their counterpart. Because many black women insist on dating within their race, they…