(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me first start off by saying that I am in no way casting dispersion upon gays. I may not agree with their stance but I am not taking free aim at their choices. I may not agree that people are born gay but that is a stance that the individual is left to wrestle with themselves. With that in mind, this is not some positional paper to go against gays. My intention rest upon the fact that society has de-powered young blacks males by doing away with true parenting and effeminizing the atmosphere.
Power of the belt
I want to deal with the power of the belt first in this dialog. The belt has a mind numbing power to correct the wrong whether it is present or not. The belt leaves an indelible mark on the minds of boys once it has been applied to their backside. I grew up in a house where the power of the belt was applied with a high standard. My mother spared no peace when it came to discipline. She made sure that she dealt with my undisciplined ways with the belt. She would use the old school adage, “You will thank me later for this beating.”(And I do thank her for those beatings) Yes I said, “beating “and 
not spanking. I got beat and sometimes close to the point of abuse. Now the intent was not malicious but those beating kept me out jail and in school.
Some would call this an ambiguous thought and one that should not be said but I beg to differ. The belt has saved many young, black males from going astray. The problem comes when the society sees misuse of the parental power directed toward kids. Yes, there needs to be someone to take oversight but the intent must always be brought to the forefront. A parent must be able to discipline their children without being fearful that they will be imprisoned for whipping their children. My mother use to say she would kill me and wait for the police to come if I thought that I was going to say all kinds of stuff to her. That was a revolutionary type act of love and parenting. She was willing to put her life on the line in order that I would not become something that society would later encage for their on monetary gain-the prison industrial complex.
When parents are not allowed to discipline their children the power structure shifts to the kids. The level of respect shifts to the children. Biggie said it best, “back the day I parents use to take care of us, look at them now they even f—— scared of us…” Parents are scared to walk through neighborhoods with children are playing because the belt has been silenced. Society has made rules where parents now are not allowed to engage in whipping their kids. If a parent does they may be imprisoned. But the flip side is that if parents do not whip their kids and provide stern discipline their kids stand a higher chance of being imprisoned as well. This perception has fueled an epidemic that has young black boys running wild in the street with blatant disrespect for elders. More and more boys are feeling themselves and think that they are so hard that they can do and say what they feel without any repercussions. But interestingly, when they are confronted by a strong presence from a parent they tend to cower down.
The dilemma rest in the fact that young black males need to disciplined and sometime disciplined harshly, in order that they can get the point. Now this must be done at a young age and continually in order that it can be effective. This can’t be done once and think that it will work. These young black males must see the concern and sometimes that concern may come in the form of a belt or a slap to the face. My son is 14 and about 6 feet tall weighing over 250 and has no fear of people. I had a talk with him this weekend and to make sure that I conveyed my message that stealing is not an option. Now he does not steal but I was making it clear, that will not be tolerated. I prefaced it with you will be in a bad place if I hear you are stealing. I am going to put a hurting on you bad if this ever happens. Now he does not see that as me wanting to abuse him. He sees this as my Dad cares enough about me to let me know that he will do whatever it takes to make sure I am disciplined. So when society is taking the power of the belt from parents what they are doing is making room for them in privatized jail system. What this leads to is a systemic cycle of black males being undisciplined and seeing jails as a positive instead of the negative.
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is quickly becoming a norm with young black males. Now from a choice standpoint this is a personal effort. Every person has the right to engage in any practice they want a long as they are not harming others. Whether everyone agrees or not is irrelevant. A young black male can enter into a relationship with another young black males and it is legally fine. They have not done any crime and are not breaking any laws. They make go against the utopian perspective of what manhood looks like but they are not doing any criminalistic endeavors.
There was a time when this was frowned upon by the community but this has slowly been changing. Young boys are “coming out of the closet” earlier with a particular swagger to go along with it. I have seen it as I walk though the mall-young boys taking effeminate qualities. They parade around with no shame whatsoever when years back they would have concealed their struggle.
The problem is nestled in another form of de-powering the young black male. If you can get these boys to regress to effeminate qualities then you take away a powerful tool none as procreation. When two males interact the chance of procreation is none. So as society has been the purveyors of this truth they have opened the door for many to turn from the opportunity to be fathers. This is a ploy to kill the growth of a people disguised in acceptance.
Conclusion
What we have in conclusion is a good attempt to stop some unnecessary harassing and abuse. But what you have ultimately are programs that have stifled the productive and progressing of a group of people. This is “concealed genocidal ploy” is killing young black males and the community at large. It has caused a major tipping point of misunderstanding toward discipline. The outcome is a culture of kids that are pretty much law-less and more acclimated to getting what they want. Parents have been handcuffed by the law with a focus to disrupt the family and in this case the black family.
I am not implying that parents should be allowed to abuse or that homosexuals should be brought under some legal jurisdiction but what I am declaring is that these two things have had a tremendous impact on young black males. It has rocked the moral fabric and put young black males in a strange category. Only time will tell if this de-powering of the 21st century young black male will be detrimental to the foundation of America and the black race particularly..
Staff Writer; Brian Foulks
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