Ok I see what you are saying.
Yes Black men are oppressed.
However That doesn't take away the fact that you guys have a greater direct effect on our community than white men.
I've never said or implied that we have the exact same communal arrangement as white people. It's just an example used to get people especially Black men to think of their role in their community outside the confines of racial oppression.
I'm specifically speaking about Black men's impact of their community not about the strides Black women have made in academia. All women reguardless of race are greater consumers and attend college at a higher rate than their male counterparts.
Black men's progression or lack thereof is in direct correlation to the overall failures of our community. The oppression of Balck men is deliberate because they know it will have a direct effect on the community.
Everyone silently agrees with this but then when it's time for a public discussion about it there is so much Blowback.
Why isn't the success of Black women considered a win for the entire community?
If Black women are in the position to help educate and hire Black men why are we discussing white men instead of Black women and men working together?
What?
How can Black men have a greater direct effect when we as a collective have no power?
And there is no role outside of the confines of racial oppression...
Racial oppression is our existence, there is no existence outside of it...
The problem that Black women have is that they do not understand they are in a difference class than Black men...
I think they really do not get it...
There is no discussion to be had unless Black women are gonna talk about Black male unemployment, Black male incarceration, Black male homelessness, Black male poverty....
Until then...WTF is there to talk about...the life of the average Black man is not even visible in mainstream society...
No Black man out here in these streets...really don't wanna hear about how we beat on Black women and catcalling them...when we ain't the ones doing the shyt...
Or that we get the big piece of chicken...
Or how hearing the word bytch on a song hurts they feelings...
That's middle class college educated liberal bullshyt
These conversations aren't productive...
What's productive...is talking about systemic issues like unemployment, lack of education, lack of health, lack of effective politics and poverty...that's what we suffer from...all these things manifest the heartache and pain...
Things that we can objectively quantify and evaluate and solve...that will have a major impact on the whole...things that increase the quality of life...that's all that matters
All that other shyt belongs on Oprah and in a self help book...
A lot of us just don't care about anything else because it doesn't any sense to us that live in the real world...