Sorry I am jumping in in the middle of the conversation so forgive me if I am off base but the issue expressed by Dr. Umar in the clip and many others is not that there aren't individual good black men.Exactly.
This is why I feel very strongly about this subject.
My own father, for example, took in three of my cousins from my mother’s side.
Him and my mother believed they could provide them with better opportunities than they would receive living with their dysfunctional ass mother.
Yet, despite all of the money, time and effort my parents put into them, when they eventually moved back in with their mother (after about a decade) within a year they managed to ruin their lives.
One is a fukking junkie and child molester.
Another one got a fat white bytch pregnant and is on section 8.
Third one is a single mother and bedwench to a bottom shelf brad that has a bunch of black baby mamas in the small town they live in.
But let these nikkas on here tell it, men like my father don’t exist and my three cousins didn’t amount to shyt because black men like him somehow failed the community.
Nah, they failed because the rest of my family would coddle them and make excuses for them when my parents would try to push them to do better.
And they eventually chose to take the easy way out and return to living with their dysfunctional ass mother.
That’s the real issue in the black community, like I’ve said before.
We sit back and coddle people who wanna take the easy way out and make excuses for them.
Then wanna turn to the people who did what they’re supposed to do and put all of the blame on them.
The issue is that there is no collective effort to change a negative community. Just "taking care of your own" is not enough because children stop being influenced by their parents pretty early, and the culture takes over.
It's like cooking a beautiful meal and then setting it on top of a heap of garbage and then expecting it to stay edible.
Individualism does not work. I think a lot of AA really do not comprehensive group economics. How most other communities interact when it comes to group economics compare to how AA participant in economics is literally night and day.
Until BP really get a firm grasp on the concept nothing will change. And no one is teaching it and I have yet to see or meet an AA who full grasps it or participates in it fully.