Hmm.. looks like people are really getting into this thread. Maybe I'll jump in.
This is an honest question for black men with daughters.
When you read black male dominated forums like this one and others (sorry I don't know the names of anymore...I'm a black woman and this is the only black male dominated forum I take time to read) in which black women are constantly bashed or criticized for everything from hair to skin tone do you fear for your daughters?
Do you fear they will grow up to hate black men?
Do you fear they will grow up to find black men undesirable? Is this something you see growing amongst young (and old) black women (i.e., finding black men unattractive and undesirable)?
Be completely honest: When you look around at black men, whether they are your friends or family, would you want your daughters to end up with men like them? Why or why not?
Black women...feel free to throw your two cents into the mix.
Even though I'm not the father of a daughter yet, I think the questions are broad enough for me to be able to answer them.
You know, when you read forums like this you have to realize one thing: what you see is not real. Yes, it's true that in real life, there are many brothers out there that hate the complexion of their skin and hate the fact that their counterparts look just like them. It's also true that many black men have failed and abandoned black women in the real world. But what you have to understand is that the internet is a caricature of everything real. Self-hatred is amplified to the umpteenth degree on the internet because nobody is able to hold them accountable.
The truth of the matter, however, is that most black men do actually love black women. Forget the ones that ain't shyt. I am one of those black men who loves black women more so than any other kind. If anything, I think that concern for any daughters I may have should not be directed at the men who hate black women and bash them altogether: those men usually avoid black women if they can. My concern would have to gravitate towards the black men that DO actually love (or lust, rather) black women, since so many of them aren't about shyt. As a man, I worry that if I have a daughter one day that she'll be scooped up by some hood-trash or thug nikka that's not about anything.
Even so, if I raise any daughter that I have properly, there wouldn't be any need to fear that she will come to hate black men. Even if she hates the men she's been with, if I instill within her with the proper knowledge of self and get her to love who she is, I should not have to worry that she will hate black men. After all, a woman's knowledge of men and how she should treat a man and expect to be treated by men should come right from her father.
I also think it's fair to say that the fatherless hysteria in the Americas has created an epidemic of people who just aren't shyt in general. Many black women have no father figures in their life, so they have no idea how to respect black men nor do they know what exactly constitutes a good man. They also have very low standards when it comes to choosing men. Many black men have also had no male role models in their life, so they look up to worthless trash as their heroes; they exalt and glorify violence and criminality and have no respect for women whatsoever due to not seeing it in their households. They only see value in a woman's body and not in her mind and unabashedly refer to all women as bytches and hos.
In the end, if any black daughter that I have wants to find a good man, she's going to have to watch the company that she keeps. Women who aren't shyt tend to find men who fit that same persona over and over again. Men who are about their wits don't go around trying to get with trifling harlots, and women who are about their wits don't go checking for dumbass thugs who can't speak proper English and sag their pants for the world to see the crack's of their asses.
Raise your children right, friends.