Friday, June 20, 2008

Black men need to love other black men!


Sounds funny doesnt it lol.


Im not talking about in "that" way.


Black men really have a problem loving each other in our communities and their isnt enough talk about that going on.


So why do we need to love each other more anyway?


Because if we loved each other more we wouldnt stand seeing other black men going to jail in record numbers.


If we loved each other more then we wouldnt stand for other men coming into our community, taking the wealth of our communities through their businesses and taking it back to their neighborhood to take their children to private schools while ours beg the adults in the street for quarters nickels and dimes just so they can get a sandwich to eat, because they might not have anything at home.


Now im not blaming the black man.


Everytime black men established their own grassroots movements to solve their own problems there has always been a concerted effort to destroy those movements by the federal state and municipal government itself.


Whether you talk about marcus garvey's movement (destroyed by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI), the riff between malcolm x and elijah muhammad (FBI sent made up letters to both of these guys saying it was from the other, and prevented appology letters from getting to each other).


Same thing happened with the Black Panthers, SNCC, Martin Luther King (Hoover tried to blackmail King and actually suggested that he commit suicide).


These are obstacles we are going to inevitbly face.


And many of us instinctively knows this, so we choose not to do anything to help our condition.


I understand lol.


But this is what all men do if they want to survive.


We have to ensure our survival on earth by bringing together black men and collectively say "HELL NO!"


"We are not going to let any other group of men take over our communities economically!"


This is the true measure of being a man.


Men own, control, provide for and protect their neighborhoods from the exploitation of other groups of men, period!


10 comments:

Freedom In Christ said...

Very good post!

I Love the black man and will do my part as a black woman to be there for him.

Anonymous said...

Totally agree with you.Togetherness would make a whole lot of difference.

I like your posts, they are thought provoking.

Unknown said...

@freedom... i know you will lol

@minky... thanks minky

your last post was thought provoking too

Miz Arkitect said...

nice post as usual .... thats the truth that most men "black men" fail to see...

James Tubman said...

sorry I'm not shakia lol

I was at the library and logged on as someone else by mistake

just want everybody to know I'm all man lol

James Tubman said...

@paradigm... yes

I can now see why many black women don't respect black men

in a sense if we don't ensure survival for women and children we don't deserve it

LG said...

as usual well-penned;hope all d Black Men are taking notes, *winks*

BTW i ve updated n i need ur input on sumthin, pls come wit me......

M. Akamau said...

Such a good post and you've said some important stuff about where we are and what we need to do about it. It's true, we don't hear (or talk) about it enough: black men NEED each other and need to be there to support one another and our communities. I imagine there is so much more we can do and that we'd be so much stronger as a group if this were a reality. Keep preachin'.

Michele

Anonymous said...

This post is right on!

Unknown said...

ITS IMPORTANT TOPIC OF OUR SOCIETY
Such a good post and you've said some important stuff about where we are and what we need to do about it.