Telling a Black boy "don't cry, man up" is an example of toxic masculinity.
Nothing about the conditions that'll force a man to teach his son that crying won't be acceptable outside of his home, so don't expect it fly inside?
My father was straight up told as a child;
don't expect me (his father) to hug you, the white man ain't gonna hug you.
Meanwhile, the discussion of masculinity is basically a social one, where black men are just
big meanies who need to
soften up on women and homosexual. But, we forget; they were killing black boys for being playful, if it meant communicating with white people.
They were demanding black MEN, hold their head down and not even make eye contact with a white BOY.
That same grandfather, was a man tortured by the American South enough to have to move his entire family.
So, excuse my grandpa (and other men like him) for trying to insulate/prepare his son (my father) from this wicked world.
We look at masculinity in a vacuum and makes people engaging in the discussion sound like teenagers arguing about what happens at their respective schools and what doesn't. Just another form of (another PC/SJW/liberal term) victim blaming.
Meanwhile; Dylan Roof and James Holmes are looked at with sympathy in the face of their aggressive actions of mass murder.
Michael Brown's death is looked at as his "fault" BECAUSE of his alleged aggressive behavior (ie Darren Wilson expects us to believe Mike was running at him through bullets).
Black men HAVE TO BE "tougher" to survive in this motherfukka. And we get blamed for it.