Black Men su!cides raising faster than any other racial group

[DEANBIGBROTHERALLMIGHTY18]

I don’t think this is a black male issue persay. I think it’s a black male image problem.
Popular culture and image takes our communities contributions and then that image is no longer under our control. To the extent that ONLY certain images become popularized and projected to the masses. For instance, one of the most powerful seminars I had was exploring the business acumen and educational achievements of some rap artists. Many are actually highly educated and intelligent but their popular image portrayed to consumers is primarily ignorant and self-hating.
Meanwhile millions of other black males are invisible. And in spite of the existence of those, the entertainer tropes are what get pushed.


Black women suffer from that too but it just plays out differently. For every one IG hoe, there’s millions of invisible blk chicks behind the scenes doing all kinds of shyt. But what gets portrayed and consumed are the worse images.
To be honest this endless loop of exaggerations of our flaws—>internalization of these lies—>act on these lies—>which leads to more portrayal of these images as being the primary indicators of our culture.

That shyt alone is depressing.

Out of curiosity, what's your educational background. You're always providing amazing insight on these topics.

 

[iBrowse]

Brothers need to stay away from social media as much as possible, not suggesting that it's a root cause but it certainly doesn't help.

This this this this

 

[Thegospel]

Lack of faith in Jesus

See how they clowned this. But dudes in here bowing down to that females dumb (solutions).

Like I said @Matt504 people on here don't want the truth. They like living in hell

 

[DEANBIGBROTHERALLMIGHTY18]

Not enough pride in themselves or people. It’s corny, but knowing the accomplishments of your people instill you with pride and a sense of duty. That shyt helped with my depression

That's why white people try to hide black history or accomplishments. You can't really love yourself when all you are told is that your people are savages and white people civilized you.

 

[iBrowse]

It’s hard when you add on all the police brutality/killings on top of everything young brothers go through.

It’s like I grew up knowing what was what, Minneapolis was nicknamed murderapolis shortly after I moved here

but I didn’t see 1080P/4K footage in real time of the things they see now


You get real time boots on the ground accounting of seeing people that look like you being killed with no kinda remorse seemingly without a break in action

it’s gotta do a number on your mental health and self worth no matter how strong your faith or home life is to be constantly fed reasons to be angry, depressed and anxious no matter where you turn.

Exactly. Consuming media that is constantly reminding us about the evils of this world affects us all regardless of our personal circumstances.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Walk with your head held high brehs never let these cacs get the satisfaction

 

[lib123]

100 million additional guns have been purchased during the pandemic. That's probably a major factor.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

Dr. Book



Having our own schools, with confident black men in leadership and a specialized curriculum tailored for young black boys & men. Also incorporating electives. That would be perfect.

I think cities are also hurting black youth as well. Pulling them out of the city will give them a better peace of mind.

Yep. But also the educational standards themselves are fukked up.
They not even working for WHITE kids, much less for black kids.

Why should you come out of high school iwith ZERO career prospects? Why do kids think going to college has to be expensive or out of pocket? Why aren’t they receiving trades training?

Where is the focus on writing skills? Interpersonal skills? Behavioral science? Why aren’t their science classes helping them understand their bodies, hormones, minds? What literature and history is being taught? Why is it primarily Eurocentric? Why isnt there a solid financial literacy core in our schools? Talented and gifted programs? Community based learning? Work products tied to real solutions? 5 paragraph essays to school boards on why they attacking critical race theory and trying to censor African American history? Heavy emphasis on statistical reasoning and interpreting how research has been weaponized against our community? Lessons for young boys and girls on healthy interactions with the opposite sex? Exploring anxiety and identity? Agriculture and life skills?
All of that could be embedded into a standard general curriculum. Which would energize and inspire students.

I can’t control whose allowing who to buss in them raw. I can’t control who walks away from their seed and who stays.

But we can control what gets poured into our children’s minds when they are away from home for so many hours of their developmental years. Unless we are going to completely homeschool kids, there’s gotta be better learning facilities. It’s not enough to tell young emergent adult men that they should be moving out and getting a job and being happy, successful members of society…without taking a long hard look at what’s happening during the years prior to the age of 21 when they supposed to leave the nest. I’m the biggest pusher of men from the nest because I want them to experience the beauty of having their own space and the peace that can come from that for a period of their lives.

But they staying at home because our society has not prepared them adequately. I want them to be accountable but we REALLY have to confront what is happening in our society that’s driving this shyt. And that’s not just parents. Or teachers. Or even administrators. That’s a failure of our entire education system.

Black men aren’t the only ones going through this shyt. Quiet as it’s kept, white males are suffering too. And if the most protected, privileged group of males in the universe is withdrawing from society and offing themselves…in spite of generational wealth and a racial leg up…what the hell do people expect is gonna happen to black men with the added issues of systematic racism?

School isn’t about merely being educated. It’s about molding citizens. And we are failing ours and then blaming them for it. And they are in turn lashing out and blaming others. This is not sustainable. I’ll never support men trying to blame women for this, but to be honest, I genuinely don’t think this is men’s faults either. And it isn’t immigrants faults either. Or parents. Or any other distraction. Our strings are being pulled.


I don’t know if whites will ever wake up…but we can’t stay asleep with them. If we gotta do it from the ground up in our local communities, it’s gotta happen or this shyt will only get worse.

 

[The Plug]

If you click the links, you'll see that the suicide rates increase is in the context of 15 - 24 years olds and it's noted that these rates used to be lower than other races for previous generations. the average coli user might not understand this because most of them are older and don't understand the problems young people my age are facing in the manner that they faced when they were young.

 

[MajesticLion]

Gnothi seauton.


Simple.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

How can we as black people get over this self hate and the feelings of inferiority ?

We gotta formally train the next generation of producers, writers, musicians, influencers, entertainers, artists to push positive blackness as a cultural shift. Those feelings come from social conditioning through media that is more heavily geared towards blk dysfunction than blk success.

 

[Afro]

I talk myself out of it at least once a week.

Less money, plenty of problems

 

[HoldThisL]

Economy.
One part of why I say young black people need to work hard and carve out a space of their own instead of trying to stay at home too long into adulthood is because it LEADS to depression. Contrary to popular belief that blks are kicked out of the home while other races stay and stack money, in American, blk youth are actually the most likely to stay at home past the age of 21. Because we have some of the highest poverty rates. And instead of it leading to an increased likelihood of homeownership or increased wealth, it actually leads to decreases in attainment of those markers of adulthood. And it also contributes to sexlessness and depression. Moreover, many of the families blacks are living with are toxic as well. So they could benefit from striking out away from those dysfunctional dynamics.

I agree with all your points except this.

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

If you click the links, you'll see that the suicide rates increase is in the context of 15 - 24 years olds and it's noted that these rates used to be lower than other races for previous generations. the average coli user might not understand this because most of them are older and don't understand the problems young people my age are facing in the manner that they faced when they were young.

Ive been suicidal. I understand better than you may think. I think a lot of us here understand to an extent at least.

 

[Neuromancer]

For a black forum there are a lot of people who lack empathy for black men.

I guess since they don't have a p*ssy you can fukk or aren't the same gender as you, you don't care.