Over the last few months, we've seen countless articles discussing the plight of the Black woman. These articles detail our supposed problems with finding and keeping love, so-called high rates of "singledom", and recently, everything from our net worth is less than $100 to "half of all Black women have genital herpes" has surfaced. We here at HipHollywood are sick of it and believe that some authors, bloggers, speakers and even research analysts are just creating this mass hysteria for profit.

The sad thing is that we are not at the center of attention for our positive contributions to this country, nor are we even under the microscope because of real plaguing issues. We have been placed into a glass box to be taunted, poked and given a problem to hold over our heads. It's become popular to create widespread generalizations about Black women and consider them truths.

This is not to discredit those writers and speakers who have a genuine interest in helping to find solutions for real issues that Black women face, however what's happening with other outlets is just a three-couse meal of negativity: problems for appetizers, bashing for dinner, embarassing generalizations for dessert. No solutions are being given for these "problems" that are being discussed on every major network, however people are cashing in their theories and the more severe the conversation is, the louder the ka-ching gets.

So, we ask you, HipHollywood, is the "Black Woman dilemma" being orchestrated merely for profit?