Why not? One could argue the destruction of the Black family in the 1970s made the Black community more vulnerable in the 80s.
What do you think was the biggest blow to the Black Community (1970s-80s)?
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Why not? One could argue the destruction of the Black family in the 1970s made the Black community more vulnerable in the 80s.
I voted Reaganomics but where is the 'MJ getting swept by the Celtics' option?
Against 5 Hall of Famers, and no Allstars on his team aside from himself.
Doesn't mean it doesn't still hurt to lose to the Celtics breh...
Especially with "God" on the court.
Unbothered
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Drugs, Reaganomics, and the Republican party throughout the 80s and early 90s by rolling back or stifling Civil Rights progress.
There is a lot of revisionism when it comes to feminism in the Black community during the '70s and ''80s; people are applying today's brand of Feminism and attaching it to the '70s. Feminism wasn't that prevalent, or that influential like that among Black women, and some of the most Pro-Black radicals, Pro-Black figures, and even Black Panther members were feminists/women's rights supporters.
If you dig deeper, there have been periods in history where Black women were voices of women's rights long before the '70s and long before the 1900s even began, a lot of it being sparked by the ongoing fight for Civil Rights. The narrative of White women “brainwashing” Black women into women's rights isn't true but some new age shyt created by YouTube activists.
There is a lot of revisionism when it comes to feminism in the Black community during the '70s and ''80s; people are applying today's brand of Feminism and attaching it to the '70s. Feminism wasn't that prevalent, or that influential like that among Black women, and some of the most Pro-Black radicals, Pro-Black figures, and even Black Panther members were feminists/women's rights supporters.
If you dig deeper, there have been periods in history where Black women were voices of women's rights long before the '70s and long before the 1900s even began, a lot of it being sparked by the ongoing fight for Civil Rights. The narrative of White women “brainwashing” Black women into women's rights isn't true but some new age shyt created by YouTube activists.
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Mac Ten
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Looking back at it, integration hurt our community.
Think about it.
That money went to those folks rather than staying in our community.
And we’re still feeling the effects of it. We would be running the hair industry instead of those Koreans and Chinese folks.
All we had was each other at the end of the day.
Once the crack era, it was every man for themselves in our community.
That money went towards rims and bs instead of thinking long term.
Think about it.
That money went to those folks rather than staying in our community.
And we’re still feeling the effects of it. We would be running the hair industry instead of those Koreans and Chinese folks.
All we had was each other at the end of the day.
Once the crack era, it was every man for themselves in our community.
That money went towards rims and bs instead of thinking long term.
Purely because feminism and 'the sexual revolution' are not inherently bad things.
The Black family is such a miscontrued concept that whatever folks think it once was, never actually was. It's a mirage, because the truth of the matter is, the dynamic of Black families have never been built on anything but broken foundations, that beyond aesthetic were nothing but walls of internal and external struggles, that long existed before whatever you think feminism and 'the sexual revolution' contributed to.
In fact, the way you're framing that feminism option with the parentheses of casual hookups and normalization of out-of-wedlock births, is inadvertently putting the blame squarely on Black women (which is one of the main reasons it shouldn't be an option).
Last three were crushing blows. Feminism isn't a problem because it's more than the examples you listed. The issue with the examples is a cause and effect (affect) of the other things on the list. Drugged out and broke men is what caused the fall of us and the rise of the independent fukk that nikka feminism we are seeing. Both parties lost (black men and black women)
I disagree. The Black family was the main reason that the Black community was able to survive centuries of White Supremacy. It was never perfect but it was definitely the foundation of the Black community. And I didn't intend to put the blame of casual hook ups squarely on Black Women, but feminism did play a big role in normalizing casual hook ups and the "I don't need a man" mindset that didn't exist before. Women are ultimately the gate keepers of sex, men the gate keepers of commitment.
Good points but feminism did play a role in normalizing casual hook up culture across all races.
Marc Spector
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Drugs do not proliferate in a community if there is gainful employment for young men.
Reaganomics does not take off as a concept if cacs had gainful employment and stronger pro labor beliefs because of commitment to those jobs.
Lol at blaming feminism/sexual revolution. These were side effects of the structure of the West changing as...you guessed it...lack of gainful employment for young men changed social dynamics in the West.
The same factory job that employed your grandfather and allowed him to marry and provide for his HS school sweetheart, your Grandmother, is gone. So what happens? You cant provide for your wife so you divorce. Or she realizes that the men in the community cannot provide for her so she goes off to college or moves to the city and works a job that allows her to live on on her terms.
Sure lets call "feminism" a bad thing....im telling you...it doesn't happen without deindustrialization breaking the West. Look at when divorce, abortion, and out of wedlock children skyrockets across all races. Its when the factories start to shut down.
Reaganomics does not take off as a concept if cacs had gainful employment and stronger pro labor beliefs because of commitment to those jobs.
Lol at blaming feminism/sexual revolution. These were side effects of the structure of the West changing as...you guessed it...lack of gainful employment for young men changed social dynamics in the West.
The same factory job that employed your grandfather and allowed him to marry and provide for his HS school sweetheart, your Grandmother, is gone. So what happens? You cant provide for your wife so you divorce. Or she realizes that the men in the community cannot provide for her so she goes off to college or moves to the city and works a job that allows her to live on on her terms.
Sure lets call "feminism" a bad thing....im telling you...it doesn't happen without deindustrialization breaking the West. Look at when divorce, abortion, and out of wedlock children skyrockets across all races. Its when the factories start to shut down.
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