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I believe that the single moms that are the most overlooked are the single moms that make strong salaries, have worked hard to move ahead, are positive, confident, educated and poised. Instead society tends to glorify the “woe is me” single mom that is struggling to make ends meet.

For too many years I wore the “proud” single momma banner. Now, no more! Although I’m getting out of the club, I am still committed to “Activating Confidence and Inspiring Wisdom” in the single parent family.

First of all, SINGLE mom is a marital status, not a socio-economic condition. And that’s where the negative stereotypes and images come from. Are married parents who live below the poverty line any less married? Does their income level and inability to provide a nanny or private nurse for their children make them single moms and dads even though they’re married?

Just like the Black men on parole, there will always be single moms who feel like they are more entitled to wear the crown than others. They’ll be the ones singing the ‘Your blues ain’t like mine’ song. But at the end of the day, President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Danny Glover, Colin Powell, and the likes, are still Black. And all is takes is one run-in with the law for them to get their nigger-wake-up call and remind them. And at the end of the day, celebrity single moms like Brittney Spears, Fantasia, and Taraji P. Henson are still single mothers who have had to endure custody battles and worrying about whether they’re doing the right thing by working versus staying at home with their children. And you might say that at least they have the option to choose. But, I once had a married co-worker who got angry with our boss (a single mom) because she was a VP and could afford a nanny, and she couldn’t. So there will always be that great divide.