Soon enough there will be a diagnosis in African American Kulture of single mothers or care givers of black males that have coddled and crippled our young boys into being weak men. Part of the reason, I suppose, is the lack of healthy black male and female relationships.
Years ago, I came across a very interesting debate in American history involving the dynamics of gender roles and paternalism within Black American Kulture; most importantly, I was inspired while conducting research about various pathologies and ideologies by a certain Michelle Wallace. Her book, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, challenged my own thinking about masculinity and sexism in the Black Nationalist movement.
How is this relevant? well my research was about various campaigns and political strategies within the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Nationalist Movement using media. Naturally, the positive and negative influencers of these printing schemes whether led by the FBI or by groups like SCLC and the BPP to flood the market with their own agendas and propaganda it exposed me to a wealth of debates in various print publications about black male and female ideas about gender equality.
A notion that challenges the very pervasive black male leadership paradigm.. well, this brings the argument back to 2013 wherein a lot of mothers are sort of worshipping their sons in an effort to protect him from the reality of not having his biological father play a strong role in his upbringing or her lack of self worth. Either way their has sparked a, "my son is forever my baby" trend.. whereby young boys cannot even change tires or worse yet grow up to never become someone's husband or to be good fathers themselves; it ends up being left to the woman in his life to raise or re-create in these modern men---manhood.
Gawd I feel u and I force my son to learn things and take care of things he needs to know how yo do when he gets older. I hope and pray I don't release a suppose man out there in the world like these men are now. Cuz even at forty I'm disappointed in these men who are even my age. Good read
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