Tell me, who is surprised that he’s with a white bitch? Tell me. Fuck this nigga. Coward ass, coon ass, bitch ass, bedwench ass, uppity ass, stupid ass, pathetic ass bitch.
Do you have any idea how angry I am to find out that the man who has the power to charge the men who killed Beroanna Taylor is a fucking black man? And that he’s marrying a white bitch while her killers run free? Black men do nothing but fail us.
Stop generalizing all black men, when a few of us would rather see niggas like him burn 💯
Nigga this is not the time nor the place for that “not all black men” bullshit. Read the room.
It’s not the time to generalize black men as a whole for a few that dont appreciate black woman and dont have enough cultural loyalty to do better than date so far from our race. Yall wanna keep perpetuating the cycle of self-hate, Saying that black men will always fail you is a gross generalization and a demeaning of all black men as a whole. If a black man said “black women always fail us” yall would bleed him out. But I say the inverse to you, and I have to read the room?
Interesting, but okay.
If black women had the same history and cultural attitude that black men have in regards to black women then no, I wouldn’t be mad if you said that. But as it stands, we don’t have that same history or cultural attitude. I don’t have the issues with accountability that you seem to have. And saying “a few black men” is funny. Any black woman of any level of consciousness knows that black men as a whole are the greatest threat to the lives of black women and femmes the world over. Angela didn’t say that black men and white women are the weakest links when fighting for racial equality for nothing. Bell hooks wrote at length about it. I’m not going to sit here and hold your hand. Black men continue to fail us, our community, our families, and our movements. We no longer have the patience and the time for y’all’s inaction and lack of accountability. More and more black women every single day are divesting from black men and y’all have nothing to blame but yourselves. We are going to decentralize black men in the conversation about anti black racism and that starts with accountability on the part of black men. Y’all need to do better. Not a few, not some, you all need to do better. So yes, read the room. The conversation around Breonna Taylor is not the time to get in your feelings.
The only person that got in their feelings was you when there are billions of people on this planet, and millions of black people in this world. The remote thought that every black man alive is a failure and “ain’t shit,” is apart of the fucked up slave conditioning that’s been perpetually poisoning our communities, and to be honest if you wanna argue numbers its impossible. William Lynch literally stated that the easiest way to break your field nigga was to remove him from a place of respect and make the negro woman treat him as if he’s less than, and here you are continuing the cycle, as a black woman with a voice that could make a difference, choose to beat an already dead horse both figuratively and damn near literally. As opposed to using any pain a man has brought you and use it as a tool to educate and uplift the men that dont know better, you’d rather bash the entire other half of our race. While people like Breonna Taylor and George Floyd are being killed every day, as opposed to trying to unify us as a people youd rather spread more negativity and hate. Youd rather use pain to spread negativity than educate others on not to repeat history.
There can be no unity with black men until y’all learn to do right by us. There are millions of black people in the world and in every corner of the world we can agree that black people suffer most, and we all should be able to recognize that black women suffer even more than that. We suffer at the hands of crackers and we suffer at the hands of y’all. That William Lynch quote speaks to my point. Black men’s investment is almost solely in gaining and maintaining the same patriarchal standards and status that they believe white men have denied them. You want to talk about a slave mentality? There is no group of men on the planet that disrespects their women the way that black men do theirs. Black women have been carrying this community damn near by ourselves since time and memoriam it seems. And just look around, who is leading this entire new civil rights movement? Who has done all the work? The answer is black women. Even black men are realizing that their contributions to black liberation have been negligible as a of late. I never said that all black men ain’t shit but what I did say is that you all need to do better. You are all culpable and responsible for the failing of black men within our community. Your investment collectively for too long has been regaining the position you think you’re owed by the standards of white men. Your investment collectively has been in “respect” at the expense of the lives, dignity, and safety of black women and femmes. You want black s women to uplift black men and to carry black men and to respect black men while as community of men you have abandoned, disrespected, and disregarded us as black women and we are tired. We are divesting. Y’all need to see what it’s really like to stand without black women in this world and maybe you’ll do better.
I stand on the fact that black men arent the problem because the fact that there are people like you who keep pointing fingers inward as if its solely our fault for our decline and lack of liberation. No one is asking to be put on a pedestal, but theres been a large lack of respect and consideration from anywhere in regards to black men. We’ve been stripped of so much of that over the last 400 years and now our own women are doing it. No one asked you to hold anyone’s hand. But just how I’m gonna say something when a dude says something crazy like “black women dont do it for me,” or “shes cute for a darkskinn girl,” or “black women are angry and bitter,” coming out a black man’s mouth. I’m gonna say something when I see a black woman saying black men are the problem, because despite the inexcusable absence of many black men in our communities, there are just as many negligent, unprogressive, and overall unsavory women in our communities who are just as bad. The point is not to keep blaming eachother and be mature and progressive about how me move forward. The people that wanna keep pointing fingers about what people arent doing instead of talking about intelligent and sound ways to fix the issue are themselves the issue.
Because as it stands, we both still have a target on us as long as we’re black. But imagine being in a minority of people who is already being oppressed and to have the women of said minority repeatedly demeaning us. It gets tiring, disheartening, and honestly kinda depressing, because what is this ire you’re projecting on black men doing to amend the issue black men have?
Have you ever considered the aftereffects of the choices of the generations that led us? All the trauma we as a people go through and black men cant even so much as speak of therapy without being considered weaker than or soft. The mental and emotional well being of black men today nigh non-existent, and women like you make it worse by saying we’re damn near useless.
The william lynch reference dosent speak to your point. It aggravates yours further because its not about regaining a place of reverence, it’s about regaining a sense of common decency and respect, something many women with your perspective are confusing which you made clear when u brought up divinity.
It’s not about pointing fingers, it’s about accountability. For far to long black men have slid out the back door of accountability for their role in internalized anti black racism and how they have treated black women. I’m very weary of hearing black men talk about how much they’ve lost and what they’ve been stripped of via slavery as if we were not right there along with them. As if we were not the ones beaten and raped and forced to bear the children of our oppressors only to have those same children ripped from our arms and sold into further torture and bondage. As if we too have not been stripped of our human agency, dignity, humanity, and suffered right along with you. It’s incredible that you can say “imagine what it must feel like” I don’t have to imagine. That is the reality that blck women face the world over. To black men, us being tired of the disrespect, inhumanity, and slaughter of our sisters at the hands of black men to the point of holding you all accountable is what you all have decided is so damn hard, but we are the ones who have to deal with our own men hating, disrespecting us, and killing us for no other reason than being black. And then you all pretend that we don’t share the same burden of systemic racism. We have to deal with racism and sexism and antiblackness at the same time. Black men are not the only ones who have been through generational trauma and yet you all centralize yourselves in the conversation of racism as if you are. No one knows better the pain of being cast aside by your partners than black women. And yet none of you want to even have that conversation until we’re fed up and want to hold you all accountable. I’ve come to the realization that as black women we cannot fix or reform black men. When we lift you up, you tear us down. When leave you alone, you scream injustice. When we tear you down, you kill us. Only black men can reform black men but not near enough of you are doing that work. You’re too concerned with black women giving you respect you all have done everything to prove you don’t deserve. I am never going to stop calling out black men for their role in the destruction of our community and our families and our movements. Saying I’m the problem for simply holding you accountable is part of the problem. You all think that accountability is worse than injustice. You think that accountability means that I hate black men. You think accountability is worse than what you all do to black women. Until you and more of your brothers get on board, there will never be true unity in this community because the unity you seek is reliant our silence.
I never asked for your silence. I asked that you not generalize a large group for a select number of people you know or have come into contact with because at that point your argument loses validity. You cant say I and my brothers need to get on board when you dont even know my character or accomplishments to feel like I treat women as if they’re less than or without respect. Just as you cant say that, like myself, there arent hundreds or thousands or millions or billions of proud black MEN, who love, respect, and treat our women with honor and care.
Stop bashing Black Men because some most likely weren’t taught the right way.
Nobody is excusing the behavior, I damn sure ain’t excusing it. But I as a man who was raised in a house by a single black mother with an absent father and less than sub-parr surrogacy, that the difference between being a Man and an adult Male, are two completely different things, and there are some of us that know the difference.
I personally wish to see the black man progress not despite, but in spite of the historical inaction of a proportionate few. Just as I prefer to see black women in our communities do better than to perpetuate racist slave mentalities and continue to demean the men of their culture due to misplaced anger and pain.
@haneefthagawd what I haven’t seen you yet do within this thread, is acknowledge the talk points that @afronerdism is replying to you with regarding your beliefs.
One of the reasons black women have so much trouble in debating with us about black identity and the purpose behind community is we’ve been socialized to see them as inherently ‘emotional’ and therefore irrational.
Look back on this conversation. The focus you have about criticism of black men is actually whats predicated on feelings. Its ‘depressing’ for you to hear black women say certain things about us.
You reason that they are ‘pointing fingers,’ projecting and emotionally reacting to men being absent. You then hinge that belief on chattel slavery and the willie lynch letter, meaning the strategic division of our people in the United States by whites. In viewing things this way, you are reducing the scope of the topic at hand and in many ways trivializing the assessment black women are making of our actions… and re-centering the conversation on how a woman’s ‘tone’ affects you. Thats feelings bruh.
Meanwhile, black women are actively deciding to divest from black men based on what our actions are logistically costing them. The role of back bone and support system goes hand in hand with silence. You say thats not your stance… only to later say “ Stop bashing black men!!” << That is very much a command for silence.
Understand that it is actually possible observe the harm black men actively cause black women on a global scale. In fact, you won’t be able to comprehend whats being said until you attempt to. These aren’t the ‘actions of a few’… this is an attack on black women’s right to exist. Rather than jump back in and type a whole lot, I recommend you read some of the stories that have recently led black women to have to reconsider the survivability in remaining silent about how vulnerable they currently are in receiving harm from us.
Black women cannot afford for us to remain conversationally or internally ignorant of their experience. If you haven’t checked out mentally yet, I encourage you to listen to this Ted Talk w Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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