Yep, this is what happens when you really don't have time to craft grammatically correct, cogent content. You post facebook conversations. Interestingly enough, I find some of them more interesting than much of my own or others choreographed content.
So here's my response to another exchange. I need to get permission before I post others' responses.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince people he doesn't exist. It's amazing, frightening, and enraging to hear people who share I hue ignore this simple fact, and at times refute it. Forces have made war upon our communit...y from the beginning, and it hasn't stopped. The reason why we (a small portion of us) enjoy some freedoms is because our people sacrificed, scratched and clawed, and died to make today possible. And somehow, we were duped and now parrot the idea that we have arrived when more black men are incarcerated than college bound. Way the F more.
In any war, the invading party kills the men and then the sons first. Why? We were brought here to serve as cheap labor. And because the slavery transpires behind prison bars (out of sight, out of mind) we ignore it. The room for error is so slim for black men (not making excuses, alot of ill isshht that happens black men bring upon themselves), however the room for error is so slim... like a lion chasing a gazelle... one slip and it's damn near game over.
Black men and women have been pitted against each other from the beginning. And it hasnt stopped. The tactics (how it looks and feels) have changed, but the strategy has been the same. Control black men's capacity to earn income and control... them physically. Then demasculate them. It would take a 500 page 8 font doc to outline the tactics employed during slavery. Today isn't much different. Think about how the welfare programs removed black men from the picture. Think about the history of adoption and child protection agencies in this country separating men from households, separationg sons (specifically) from families.
Most of us don't even realize it, but we are being conditioned daily to compete against each other. There's where the internal strife is coming from. Black men and women more than not see each other as competitors, agitators, whereas gamesm...anship (in damn near every arena) rules the day. Think about it..... Affirmative Action benefited white women, white mothers, white daughters, white sisters, white aunts, and white wives more than any other group. That point was made clear and was generally accepted in Michigan. Do you know that white women and men came out in mass against it! Why?
Because they understood implicityly that even if Affirmative Action benefited white women, the fact that white men would actually have to compete on a more level playing field with black men was incomprehensible. Their decision was very gutteral and carnal. Who is my daughter going to marry? Get it? I'm being rhetorical. We have had that gutteral response nearly slapped the hell out of us.
Black women (alot of them) don't want to acknowlege the aforementioned, so there's the loss of empathy. Black men too often don't recognize what black women have to endure, especially in the absence of protection. Afterall, if black men are... removed the equation...what happens? So the temperature rises. And if you are being programmed to be competitors rather than teammates, partners in a struggle, what do you get? What you get is what you're seeing. The divorce rates are not anomalies. The unemployment rates are not anomalies. The lack of marriages transpiring are not anomalies. The friction did not just appear out of thin air. Damn... not enough space. All I can say to our people is fuck... read a book, read a book, read a book. Read our history. Get out of your ignant (ignorant and stupid are two different things) skulls and read about what's really going on. If you don't know the origins (history), it's hard to submit solutions.
Ultimately, the answer is in us... African American men. That's goes for all of us. Me, our peers, our elders, our young ones. The answer is in us. We must start there.
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Yep, this is what happens when you really don't have time to craft grammatically correct, cogent content. You post facebook conversations. Interestingly enough, I find some of them more interesting than much of my own or others choreographed content.
So here's my response to another exchange. I need to get permission before I post others' responses.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince people he doesn't exist. It's amazing, frightening, and enraging to hear people who share I hue ignore this simple fact, and at times refute it. Forces have made war upon our communit...y from the beginning, and it hasn't stopped. The reason why we (a small portion of us) enjoy some freedoms is because our people sacrificed, scratched and clawed, and died to make today possible. And somehow, we were duped and now parrot the idea that we have arrived when more black men are incarcerated than college bound. Way the F more.
In any war, the invading party kills the men and then the sons first. Why? We were brought here to serve as cheap labor. And because the slavery transpires behind prison bars (out of sight, out of mind) we ignore it. The room for error is so slim for black men (not making excuses, alot of ill isshht that happens black men bring upon themselves), however the room for error is so slim... like a lion chasing a gazelle... one slip and it's damn near game over.
Black men and women have been pitted against each other from the beginning. And it hasnt stopped. The tactics (how it looks and feels) have changed, but the strategy has been the same. Control black men's capacity to earn income and control... them physically. Then demasculate them. It would take a 500 page 8 font doc to outline the tactics employed during slavery. Today isn't much different. Think about how the welfare programs removed black men from the picture. Think about the history of adoption and child protection agencies in this country separating men from households, separationg sons (specifically) from families.
Most of us don't even realize it, but we are being conditioned daily to compete against each other. There's where the internal strife is coming from. Black men and women more than not see each other as competitors, agitators, whereas gamesm...anship (in damn near every arena) rules the day. Think about it..... Affirmative Action benefited white women, white mothers, white daughters, white sisters, white aunts, and white wives more than any other group. That point was made clear and was generally accepted in Michigan. Do you know that white women and men came out in mass against it! Why?
Because they understood implicityly that even if Affirmative Action benefited white women, the fact that white men would actually have to compete on a more level playing field with black men was incomprehensible. Their decision was very gutteral and carnal. Who is my daughter going to marry? Get it? I'm being rhetorical. We have had that gutteral response nearly slapped the hell out of us.
Black women (alot of them) don't want to acknowlege the aforementioned, so there's the loss of empathy. Black men too often don't recognize what black women have to endure, especially in the absence of protection. Afterall, if black men are... removed the equation...what happens? So the temperature rises. And if you are being programmed to be competitors rather than teammates, partners in a struggle, what do you get? What you get is what you're seeing. The divorce rates are not anomalies. The unemployment rates are not anomalies. The lack of marriages transpiring are not anomalies. The friction did not just appear out of thin air. Damn... not enough space. All I can say to our people is fuck... read a book, read a book, read a book. Read our history. Get out of your ignant (ignorant and stupid are two different things) skulls and read about what's really going on. If you don't know the origins (history), it's hard to submit solutions.
Ultimately, the answer is in us... African American men. That's goes for all of us. Me, our peers, our elders, our young ones. The answer is in us. We must start there.
Facebook Ruminations on the War on Black Men
by JuJuan Buford
Yep, this is what happens when you really don't have time to craft grammatically correct, cogent content. You post facebook conversations. Interestingly enough, I find some of them more interesting than much of my own or others choreographed content.
So here's my response to another exchange. I need to get permission before I post others' responses.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince people he doesn't exist. It's amazing, frightening, and enraging to hear people who share I hue ignore this simple fact, and at times refute it. Forces have made war upon our communit...y from the beginning, and it hasn't stopped. The reason why we (a small portion of us) enjoy some freedoms is because our people sacrificed, scratched and clawed, and died to make today possible. And somehow, we were duped and now parrot the idea that we have arrived when more black men are incarcerated than college bound. Way the F more.
In any war, the invading party kills the men and then the sons first. Why? We were brought here to serve as cheap labor. And because the slavery transpires behind prison bars (out of sight, out of mind) we ignore it. The room for error is so slim for black men (not making excuses, alot of ill isshht that happens black men bring upon themselves), however the room for error is so slim... like a lion chasing a gazelle... one slip and it's damn near game over.
Black men and women have been pitted against each other from the beginning. And it hasnt stopped. The tactics (how it looks and feels) have changed, but the strategy has been the same. Control black men's capacity to earn income and control... them physically. Then demasculate them. It would take a 500 page 8 font doc to outline the tactics employed during slavery. Today isn't much different. Think about how the welfare programs removed black men from the picture. Think about the history of adoption and child protection agencies in this country separating men from households, separationg sons (specifically) from families.
Most of us don't even realize it, but we are being conditioned daily to compete against each other. There's where the internal strife is coming from. Black men and women more than not see each other as competitors, agitators, whereas gamesm...anship (in damn near every arena) rules the day. Think about it..... Affirmative Action benefited white women, white mothers, white daughters, white sisters, white aunts, and white wives more than any other group. That point was made clear and was generally accepted in Michigan. Do you know that white women and men came out in mass against it! Why?
Because they understood implicityly that even if Affirmative Action benefited white women, the fact that white men would actually have to compete on a more level playing field with black men was incomprehensible. Their decision was very gutteral and carnal. Who is my daughter going to marry? Get it? I'm being rhetorical. We have had that gutteral response nearly slapped the hell out of us.
Black women (alot of them) don't want to acknowlege the aforementioned, so there's the loss of empathy. Black men too often don't recognize what black women have to endure, especially in the absence of protection. Afterall, if black men are... removed the equation...what happens? So the temperature rises. And if you are being programmed to be competitors rather than teammates, partners in a struggle, what do you get? What you get is what you're seeing. The divorce rates are not anomalies. The unemployment rates are not anomalies. The lack of marriages transpiring are not anomalies. The friction did not just appear out of thin air. Damn... not enough space. All I can say to our people is fuck... read a book, read a book, read a book. Read our history. Get out of your ignant (ignorant and stupid are two different things) skulls and read about what's really going on. If you don't know the origins (history), it's hard to submit solutions.
Ultimately, the answer is in us... African American men. That's goes for all of us. Me, our peers, our elders, our young ones. The answer is in us. We must start there.
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