What's Love Got To Do With It

Representative Barbara Robinson of Maryland is even more intriguing than I initially thought. She is a author,business owner,politician and dedicated wife. Not necessarily in that order. I hope she inspired someone today to be a good wife and not just write a book or run for elected office. More women that were listening today can attain the first much more likely than the last two.

When I first heard her on the radio. I wasn't so much enamored with the fact that she had written several books or had run for public office in her sixties. Even though those things are quite impressive in their own right. I was most impressed with how she described her relationship with her deceased husband of forty-seven years. These days not much emphasis is placed on the benefits of being as one. In light of her many accomplishments that was one of her biggest.

Though she was on a show where the majority of the listeners are single women on power trips. I don't know exactly why she was booked other than to talk about her books and her public office. Most of the listeners don't want to hear a successful black woman telling them to stand by their man. They want to hear the part about how to sell a lot of books and how everyone has at least one book in them. I have a suspicion this story paralells the "Ike and Tina Turner story." Being submissive to your husband and being the biggest earner to most women is an oxymoron. Unless of course they consider a little thing like"what's love got to do with it?"