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Letters to Young Black Women
by Daniel Whyte III
with Meriqua & Daniella Whyte
Price: $12.95

Daniel Whyte III never intended to write a book to young black women. He believes, according to the Scriptures, that the older women should teach the younger women. However, after Letters to Young Black Men: Advice & Encouragement for a Difficult Journey became a bestselling book, readers requested that Whyte write a book for young black women as well. He prayed about it, and was led to do so. Regarding the purpose of this book, Whyte states:

This book is more about prevention than it is about healing. There are many other great men and women of God who are doing great work in the healing and restoration department for young black women. I believe that many of the problems that young black women are dealing with today can be prevented from happening in the first place. I also believe that in order for young women to be victorious in this life, they must operate from a position of strength and power. This book will empower them to win against their enemies: the devil, sorry men, and even themselves. I hope that they will read it and never live a defeated life again.

Daniel Whyte III writes a heartfelt book to his daughters and to other young black women, on the various issues of life that they face today. Whyte actually commenced the writing of this book from his hospital bed during a routine stay for chest pains. Symbolically, if Daniel Whyte III were on his deathbed, the words contained in this book are those that he would say to his six daughters. Written just for the young black woman in your life, whether you are a father, mother, grandparent, or Sunday school teacher, Letters to Young Black Women is overflowing with loving, fatherly, “advice and encouragement for a difficult journey.”

PART I: On Your Life — Spiritual
1. From My Heart
2. Let God Touch You
3. Let God Hear from You
4. Let God Talk to You
5. Let God Love You
6. Let God Be Your All in All
7. Let God Make You a Woman of Faith
8. Let God Make You Beautiful from the Inside Out
9. Let God Control You
10. Let God Encourage You
11. Let God Bless and Make You a Success

PART II: On Your Life — Educational
12. On the Importance of Your Early Education
13. On Setting Educational Goals
14. Get Your Doctorate Degree before Marriage
15. The Marks of a Truly Educated Woman
16. The Power of Reading
17. Strive to Know What You Want to Do with Your Life at an Early Age
18. Take in a Little Etiquette Along The Way
19. Use Your Education to Help Other People
20. Let Your Education Shine Through
21. Above All, Get Wisdom and Understanding

PART III: On Your Life — As A Young Black Woman
22. Beware of the Dawgs - Part I
23. Beware of the Dawgs - Part II
24. On Not Being a Silly-Minded Woman
25. On Remaining a Virgin Until You Get Married
26. Not Giving In: My Personal Experience, by Joslyn Neblett
27. If You Want to Get Married, Here’s How to Get a Good Man
28. The Case for Never Getting Married
29. The Kind of Man You Should Not Marry
30. How to Avoid Domestic Violence
31. How to Think Like a Man, Yet Be All Woman
32. How to Win At Relationships (And Never Get Hurt)
33. How Not to Become a Victim
34. 10 Things Some Women Do That Absolutely Turn Men Off
35. Men Folk!
36. Straight Talk about Sex
37. The Power of a Consistently Cheerful Spirit and Personality
38. Good Girls Always Finish First
39. And For the Young Women Who Are Already Married, by Meriqua
Whyte
40. Powerful Passages of Scripture Especially for Young Women who are
Contemplating Marriage or who are Already Married
41. Papa’s Pet Peeves
42. If You Are Hurting
43. A Tribute to My Father, by Daniella Whyte

“The true worth of a race must be measured by the character
of its womanhood.”

I am forever amazed at the broad shoulders of black women, and how God has used them down through the years in this country and beyond, to not only help the black community stay together, but to move us forward as a race — yea, indeed, to even help hold America together, and to move her forward as well.

I think about the courage of Harriett Tubman, Ida B. Wells, and Sojourner Truth. I also think about the class, dignity, and toughness of Coretta Scott-King, Rosa Parks and Dorothy Height. I am afraid, however, that these women had something that many of our young black women today simply do not have.

I am very concerned for our young black women. In light of the quote above by Mary McLeod Bethune, “The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood,” many of our young women today are not expressing the character and the class that the black women of old showed. Many of them have dropped the standards of the past. I remember even when I was a child back in the sixties and seventies, when the young ladies were admonished by the grandmothers, mothers, and aunts to “stop being so fast”: a clear warning that meant to stop carrying yourself like a loose girl. It meant to stop running after boys and to carry yourself like a lady. Well, I haven’t heard that phrase in a long time, and unfortunately, it is showing. Consider with me some horrifying statistics regarding our young women today:

Besides the painful facts above, what troubles me the most is that more young black women today are allowing themselves to be used, mistreated, and hurt by unscrupulous men who do not care anything for them, and who do not even have the capacity to treat them with love and respect. And what happens is that moral failures that are pleasurable and seem small while doing them, end up impacting the rest of their lives with devastating consequences. I believe this lack of self-respect is what breeds the horrifying statistics above.

This book is more about prevention than it is about healing. There are many other great men and women of God who are doing great work in the healing and restoration department for young black women. (We mention some of these individuals and ministries on our “Motherboard” in the back of the book.) I believe that many of the problems that you, as young black women are dealing with today can be prevented from happening in the first place. I also believe that in order for you to be victorious in this life, you must operate from a position of strength and power based upon the Word of God. This book will empower you to win against your enemies: the devil, sorry men, and even yourself. I hope that you will read it and never live a defeated life again.

If Black America is to survive and thrive, not only do our young black men need to rise, but our young black women need to rise again.