A message from an African-American shitlord... Black people are fucked. Like seriously. It's no secret how fat African Americans are. Your's truly started working at Domino's recently and on my shift last night, most of the black customers that came in were chubby and I distinctly remember 2 large fatass females. According to the CDC's Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2015–2016 report, 46.8% of non-Hispanic blacks were OBESE. It was 36.9% of black men and then 54.8% of black women. So basically more than a quarter of black men and more than HALF of black women are fatasses. Now with that being said, there's been alot of talk about the causes. Some like some of my family members pin the blame on whitey, but allow me to give this message.... Stop. Stop blaming whitey, stop blaming the KKK, and stop blaming ''the man'' and own up. It is fair to say that certain inner city environments may not have as much health resources but guess what? That doesn't mean you can't make do: But, it's not safe to jog/run outside in the morning or night. You can do plenty of cardio exercises indoors. Jumping jacks, high knees, running in place, Zumba, shadowboxing etc. I can't afford to go to the gym The fact that a 24 Hour Fitness Membership is about 30 dollars shows how much bullshit this is. Hell Planet Fitness memberships are $10! You can't pay the price of an average kid's allowance for a gym membership?! And hell, you can even be like me and buy your own workout gear for at home. Awhile ago I bought a pair of ankle weights at Walmart. Speaking of which... Healthy food is expensive ROFL. Uh, no. Healthy food is actually pretty cheap. A bunch of apples for less than 6 bucks, bananas for a few cents a pound, and frozen vegetables are always cheap. Even dollar stores offer produce. Really, UNHEALTHY food is insanely cheap. Aside from the abundance of brand name sweets and chips you can get from the aforementioned dollar store fast food places now offer deals like 2 99 cent tacos, burger/chicken/sandwich/cookie/soda meal for $5 and so on. But which is the better investment: healthy food that won't kill you or eating cheap food that will lead you to have to spend hundreds of thousands on hospital bills and prescription medications, not to mention the time away from work which means even less income. I don't have time to cook healthy food or exercise One, do meal prep once a week, and two you could do exercise while watching TV, make time for it by cutting out TV watching or something else. The thing is you will make time for whatever is most important to you. And again, do you have time to miss work due to being in the hospital or on medical leave, or even death? These excuses need to stop from everyone in general, but especially black people since we are clearly the fattest demographic in America. And another thing is this soul food shit. If you guys have ever seen the movie of the same name, the family matriarch Big Mama gets diabetes from constantly eating typical soul food fare at Sunday dinners(deep fried meats and vegetables drenched in pork and/or sugar). She has to get her leg amputated but then goes into a coma and dies. After a bunch of hell breaks loose between her family due to the emotional turmoil of her demise, the family reconciles by... Huey:By eating the same food that just killed Big Mama, the same food! They didn't learn the lesson, no one went on a diet, and that's the end of the movie. ...Yeah what Huey said. Also to quote this blog post: We should be reminded that in the film Soul Food, it is 40 years of that very bad diet that causes the diabetes that ultimately kills "Big Mama." As a result of her (premature) death, Big Mama’s remaining family is left in shambles. In depicting Big Mama’s family reuniting around a special weekly meal of soul food, one can only imagine what future health tragedy is in the works for her kinfolk. And in my own town, there's part of it which is a bit more ghetto with more black people which is a long strip of businesses which includes pawn shops, auto repair places, as well as other businesses including fast food like Wendy's, Burger King, and so on. But within that whole area there's a Planet Fitness, and several grocery stores(Walmart, Smart and Final, and Food Maxx) and towards the end where the downtown area begins a weekly Farmers Market is held on Thursdays. In conclusion, black people are no longer living when they had to eat the junk ''massa'' threw away. The unhealthiness among us is something we are doing to ourselves. And frankly, at this point I'm almost certain I won't be with a black girl since so many of them are fat. And it's only getting worse, it's just a matter of time...