Nomalanga: When Normal is Not Normal; Destructive Mindsets in Black Communities

July 24, 2012 | Filed under: Commentary,News | Posted by: Staff

I was facilitating a discussion about relationships, not long ago, in one of my college seminars for Women of Color when I had the realization that what I perceive as “normal” is not necessarily what other people may perceive as “normal”.

The discussion that I was facilitating was intended to draw a distinction between good and bad relationships. The problem is that when I introduced the first article that described bad relationships, some of the young women strongly disagreed with what was being described as unhealthy behavior. These 18 and 19 year old young women argued that it was normal to have verbal altercations and even physical altercations. They argued that it was normal for people to fight and that it should happen often.

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