Are black men being “left behind”?
Since college, it seemed like Black men were always “the forgotten” people.
E-Boards of almost all black orgs I was in were women, save the African Student Association.
I just bumped into a girl from college that I hadn't seen in almost a year. From our convo she seems to be doing pretty well for her self. Good job, does TEDx type speeches for money, founded a travel service agency, got this little podcast thing etc. Just turned 23. Thing is, I know quite a number of young black ladies in my circle like that, very ambitious.
For dudes though, it’s a different case. Perhaps dudes are more lowkey about their ambitions. Perhaps dudes take a little longer before they get their act together?
Even in Corp America, so few brehs out here. In my company there are only like 10 brehs out of a 400 person company. Of the 10 brehs, 3 are obese, 3 aren't straight and then the remaining are regular dudes that you’d chop it up with.
Only 1 breh has a senior management role, compared to like 4 black women. Black women out number black men like 5 to one.
I’m really interested to see what the landscape is gonna look like in 5-10 years.