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Originally Posted by miu
The failures of the black community is NOT due to their race or skin colour, it's because of how dysfunctional their ghetto machismo culture that admires men with a player lifestyle.
I encounter and know many successful black people, and what they all have in common is that they speak proper business English, they dress like civilized adults (no black hoodies or baggy jeans), they don't waste their money on stupid expensive sneakers or elaborate heavy hair weaves... and they value a good academic education or having a good skill in the trades. AND they stop dwelling on black slave history and expecting continuous apologies and reparations from whitey.
I do think that there needs to be more black male teachers in the public school systems, but being a teacher is not an appealing profession for black men. I guess that it isn't glamourous enough and doesn't pay enough either.
And there needs to be more black police officers in the black majority communities. Again, all those BLM and taking a knee people need to step up and join the police force and show the white police officers how to do the job better. Stop complaining and really do something about the situation!!!
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You've clearly demonstrated the fact that you're only human here. You've made some fair allegations here, but some have emerged out of ignorance.
First of all, it must absolutely be acknowledged that when Africans first reached this continent, they had "culture", respect, and were no doubt, highly regarded within their respective African communities or villages. The African male knew his place within his tribe or his relative position within his community's social strata.
It was indeed the institution of slavery that destabilized both African and African-American social strata. Africans were driven by raw fear, ignorance, and subsequently, manipulation. Whatever it once meant to be a man in Africa no longer existed here as a slave in America. As a matter of fact, the institution of slavery necessarily requires the immediate process of emasculation, prior to servitude. Otherwise, the mutual understanding between slave and master gets lost.
This is similar to creating an understanding between a horse and rider, or between a battered wife and a misogynistic husband. Control in all cases must be firmly established before any duties are executed. This establishment of control is one which demonstrates dominance and necessitates complete and total acquiescence. The enslaved male ceases to have any personal identity of expression and therefore, loses his masculinity by default. For that which is dominated, is perceived as weak. That which is perceived as weak, is viewed as subservient. In most societies (including those of the west), the woman or the female is the classical epitome of subservience. This image of the subservient role of the female is further demonstrated by the dominant sex role typically played by men. To dominate with guns, sticks, whips, chains, and laws, all served to emasculate African men and affirm their intra-communal significance. It then became incumbent upon them to redefine themselves post slavery. But boys need men to serve as role models.
Who were male slave role models?
Where would the source of these so-called "role models" be found?
Would it be appropriate for a young African slave boy to have an older male slave as an actual "role model"?
Would it be more appropriate for young African-American males to have former slave masters serve as role models?
How should a freed male and former slave now think of himself after years of involuntary servitude?
Does he have the level of self-esteem required to survive outside of the institution of slavery?
What skills does he possess outside the plantation that will allow an illiterate person like himself, a decent wage that would support a family? A family where the woman would acknowledge his importance as the sole bread-winner. His children would acknowledge him with both appreciation and respect.
Indeed it was then, as it remains today, a difficult task to break through the many barriers in the pursuit of black male assimilation into society where he can be favorably viewed.
Post slavery, blacks were merely attempting to redefine themselves as the free human beings they were born to become and not some beast of burden, working at the behest of a cruel, dominating, and narcissistic slave master.
Slaves were made to both feel and act inferior. How were they to overcome the negative psychological effects of slavery while constantly facing racial discrimination, simultaneously.
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African-Americans are still rebounding from the negative effects of slavery. One can never overestimate the extensive profundity of the negative consequences imposed upon African-Americans as a direct result of slavery. From low self-esteem to poor physical self-images. From low self-expectations to low levels of accomplishment.
It's quite true that while more black male educators, professionals, local, state, and federal officials would serve to better the African-American community as a whole. The African-American male requires a certain type of leadership that can only serve him as an icon of a role model from which to carve a new self. An intelligent, educated, industrious, enterprising, and respectful self, worthy of the universal respect from fellow community members. The high mountainous challenge lies ahead, still in the face of racial adversity.
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