Elle Driver
Veteran
That theory of yours is more true than people would like to believe. The whole save the ethnic people over the world but destroy your own black citizens dynamic still baffles me. I had a white college professor tell me one of the realist things I ever heard...he told me if your ever at an older Caucasian family's home and they are hosting you as a guest. Ask to see old family pictures and souvenirs they've kept. He told me the further you dig you would likely find a picture of a lynching that was used as a postcard and see a younger version of their grandfather in the picture. So they wouldn't really let you see photos before the 70's. Told me about how his own family members act cool in public but long for the "good ole days" when "times were different". Thats a different thread for a different day though.
I agree that the men need to be a bigger part of raising these kids. A man is going to be able to reach a young male in ways that a woman can't reach him and a young lady should learn how to be treated by a man from her father.
The mental illness thing is a tragedy. I think it has a lot to do with shame and not wanting to seem weak to outsiders.
White folk love to act like that was so long ago though, another reason you shouldn't fukk with them unless you absolutely have to.
The thing is, white women love to vent about their issues about being women but they were compliant in the mistreatment of black people. They'll go on and on about feminism, but shyt on black feminists, because when they say feminism they mean the only thing that makes them somewhat disenfranchised is the fact that they have a p*ssy between they legs. Let's not forget that most of them make more money than all men of color, not just black men. So why check for a movement that isn't checking for you, or ya brothas, uncles, husbands, sons?
