The Denzel Principle:
Why Black Women Can’t Find Good Black Men
By Jimi Izrael
St. Martin’s Press
Hardcover, $22.99
320 pages
ISBN: 978-0-312-53485-1
 
Book Review by Kam Williams
 
“What do black women want? The truth? They are looking for Denzel Washington. They have been so thoroughly brainwashed, that black women don’t know what a good black man even looks like… The brothers out there know exactly [what] I’m talking about.

Every time you turn around sisters say they just want a good black man, but being good is never enough. If it was, there would be no complaining, because there are good black men everywhere… We can’t all be in jail, on crack, trudging through natural disaster areas with plasma TVs strapped to our backs, raping newborns two at a time, sick with the DL, Jungle Fever, or otherwise afflicted.

This book is all about my life, sifting through unreasonable expectations from certain kinds of women… This is a personal journey I’m putting out there in hopes that women will read my experience and maybe it will help them find themselves, wake up, and find one of the good brothers who are far less the exception than the rule.”

 -- Excerpted from the Introduction (pgs. 16-19)

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