Soldierettes,
If you want to look at the crisis of black males within the black community, you really need to look at the black mother dynamic. Black mothers are unknowingly crippling their sons--teaching their daughters to be independent, self-sufficient members of society while neglecting to provide the same life skills to their male children. Many Black mothers raise their daughters and spoil their sons.
I've noticed that a lot of black woman REFUSE to teach their sons responsibilities--cooking, cleaning and homework--like they do their daughters.
Remember that wonderful movie "Akeelah the Bee"? About a young, black girl living in the ghetto who decides to compete in the national spelling bee. Angela Bassett plays the mother of Akeelah. She allows Akeelah to raise herself and only reserves praise and concern for her sons. Are you familiar with this scenario?
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I hear you.
And also Black mothers degrading their sons, talking down to them instead of nurturing and teaching them will lead to a lot of hatred towards Black women when they grow up.
I know there are Black men who aren't around to teach their sons how to be men but I see it as a lost opportunity when mothers don't teach their sons how to respectfully treat a woman.
Even if a respectful relationship is not what a mother has, she should want to try and teach her son what it is she (a woman) does want.
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