How Come Black Men Fail At Fatherhood and Marriage?

[MikeBrownsJob]

Real talk.

More than 1 in 10 black men in their 20s or early 30s are currently incarcerated, and some experts estimate that as many as 1 in 4 black men will spend some time behind bars.

Only half of black boys graduate high school.

Some ex-convicts or high school dropouts find good jobs, but most do not. Black men without a college education, like less educated men of all races, confront an employment landscape in which the well-paying, labor intensive jobs on which earlier generations of men relied have either been eliminated by technology or moved overseas.

Black men’s difficulties arise partly for reasons beyond their control -- failing schools, a changing labor market, mass incarceration — but they nonetheless leave black men less able to fulfill the role of husband.

The harsh truth is that as black women have moved ahead, black men have fallen behind. Each year, nearly twice as many black women as men graduate college. Black women have surpassed their male counterparts even in lucrative and typically male-dominated fields like computer science. Twice as many black women as men go to graduate school, and in law and medicine, the gender gap is approaching 2 to 1 as well.

A Definite Shortage of Marriageable Black Men - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Going forward as a race of men, how do we hold each other accountable as brothers, fathers and husbands?

 

[AAKing23]

 

[MoneyTron]

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

I'm saying breh, collectively we are going to be left behind. What does it take for our communities to thrive? We know about the problems of yesteryear but today in 2013 to be running around with know direction as a group is troubling. WTF does it take?

 

[The BasedFather]

Gotta get that money little niqqa, f*ck being at home raising little snotnosed boogerheads.

I haven't been to jail yet, but I'll make sure that if I ever get married it won't work out. If I ever have kids they're going find Waldo a billion times before they find me.

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Gotta get that money little niqqa, f*ck being at home raising little snotnosed boogerheads.

I haven't been to jail yet, but I'll make sure that if I ever get married it won't work out. If I ever have kids they're going find Waldo a billion times before they find me.

 

[froggle]

Real talk.

More than 1 in 10 black men in their 20s or early 30s are currently incarcerated, and some experts estimate that as many as 1 in 4 black men will spend some time behind bars.

Only half of black boys graduate high school.

Some ex-convicts or high school dropouts find good jobs, but most do not. Black men without a college education, like less educated men of all races, confront an employment landscape in which the well-paying, labor intensive jobs on which earlier generations of men relied have either been eliminated by technology or moved overseas.

Black men’s difficulties arise partly for reasons beyond their control -- failing schools, a changing labor market, mass incarceration — but they nonetheless leave black men less able to fulfill the role of husband.

The harsh truth is that as black women have moved ahead, black men have fallen behind. Each year, nearly twice as many black women as men graduate college. Black women have surpassed their male counterparts even in lucrative and typically male-dominated fields like computer science. Twice as many black women as men go to graduate school, and in law and medicine, the gender gap is approaching 2 to 1 as well.

A Definite Shortage of Marriageable Black Men - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Going forward as a race of men, how do we hold each other accountable as brothers, fathers and husbands?

it's a vicious cycle coming from slavery and fatherless girls grow up and get pregnant as teenagers searching for that father figure or love. Fatherless boys never saw male responsibility growing up and their teenage mother always had men running in and out, so they never saw stability.

The end result is hoes getting trains ran on them by whole communities and the off spring of these bust a nut sessions are criminals, gays, thugs and men who honestly have no idea how to be men.

Black people wake up

 

[flusterose]

it's sad....

 

[Illuminatos]

Only half of black boys graduate high school.

 

[Stuntone]

Most marriages fail.

Most of the smart men that would make a great fathers don't have any kids. We take our time and choose a wife wisely.

Most of our women are getting knocked up by guys who aren't prepared to be fathers.

 

[JBoy]

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Most marriages fail.

Most of the smart men that would make a great fathers don't have any kids. We take our time and choose a wife wisely.

Most of our women are getting knocked up by guys who aren't prepared to be fathers.

Half of marriages don't fail, but as it pertains to the negro male, he has the highest divorces rates of any male and that includes when interracial dating. That tells me no matter the race of the women, the black man is not equipped to lead a household.

How is this possible?

 

[Chelsea Bridge]

Sad to say it but Non American black men >>>>>>>>

 

[61 Corpses]

Wesley being Wesley

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

it's a vicious cycle coming from slavery and fatherless girls grow up and get pregnant as teenagers searching for that father figure or love. Fatherless boys never saw male responsibility growing up and their teenage mother always had men running in and out, so they never saw stability.

The end result is hoes getting trains ran on them by whole communities and the off spring of these bust a nut sessions are criminals, gays, thugs and men who honestly have no idea how to be men.

Black people wake up

Wesley being Wesley

My concern for black men doesn't cease with a change of name.