A Black child who grows up in Suburban America not only has the same racial hurdles and barriers to jump over and break through as those raised in the inner city, but face even more adversity as many of them do not have other Black peers in which to confide or be befriended by, and in fact have to deal with racism on a day to day level from classmates, teachers, school faculty, and even neighbors who don’t want them or their family living in their lily white cul de sac.

If you chose to use phrases such as “just as worse”, you should not wonder why employment is hard to find. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin, but rather your lack of proper use of the English language. In these times, employment is hard to come across for most Americans. Many of us are unemployed, even more are stuck in dead end jobs we hate. Yet and still, this is the land of opportunity, and any man who is without should always be waiting to jump on the next one that comes around the corner. That means taking the necessary steps to further your education and knowledge on the career path of your choice. When all else fails, go into business for yourself. Mary Kay only has a $100 start up fee.

Any man of any race who doesn’t know how to treat a woman and blames it on the lack of a father in his household must not have had a mother, a grandmother, any aunts, or female relatives at all. That is not even a half way feasible excuse. If you can’t keep a relationship because of your “baby mamas”, don’t blame it on being Black, blame it on you not having enough fucking sense to use condoms and birth control and pull out. Masturbate more, it’s cheaper!

Prison???? The majority of people I know who have been to prison are dope fiends. They do stupid shit and get locked up over and over and over again, all with the hopes of being able to get high again. It’s not because they’re Black, it’s because they’re stupid. Unless you’re a black man who wrongly served a sentence for a crime you didn’t commit or were mistakenly convicted of (totally different issue), you probably did some real stupid shit to try to make a quick come up and you got caught. Simple as that.

I’m not saying that racial prejudice isn’t alive, well, and stronger than ever in the good ole’ US of A, because it most certainly is. The issue is that we as Black men cannot continue to use the excuse of being Black men as a cover-up for our shortcomings. Everyone has hardships to deal with in life, but you are not living until you attempt to overcome them. There have always been successful, prominent, educated Black men in America, just as there have always been those who lived in ignorance and poverty. Many of us still have a slave mentality, failing to realize that there were also Black men and women who owned slaves. Achieving greatness in this land is not something that will be determined by race or culture, but by strength, determination, and willingness to persevere.

We all know that this nation of ours is built on hatred, is crooked, treacherous, and has proven to be unfriendly to the darker skinned and poor. We also have more information at our fingertips in this age to leap any obstacle by bounds. If you continue to fall for the same trick even after it has been revealed to you, you have only proven yourself to be a fool. This has nothing to do with being Black.

Why continue to live a lie once you’ve been exposed to the truth?

“steph says:
July 24, 2012 at 10:47 am
A Message to Black Beauty:

“I think that your message is very judgemental. If you want to stay here, fine with you. But I have a very particular experience with White men. Before the age of 25, I was sexually abused by at least four among them”

Not being judgemental at all. Simply telling it like it is per my opinion!

You are angry (rightfully so), and thus your pain is personalized.
Here is a question for you; do you know how many black women have been raped by black men? If you are a worldly person you must know that this goes on all over the world! Would your anger be any less if the 4 men had been black? I think not.

I am sorry that happened to you, however you must know that your ancestors suffered every day of their lives so those that came after them could live better. We dishonor them when we turn our backs on them.

You are free to live/go where ever you please (the freedom your ancestors faught & died for) on the planet. I am staying right here in the/my country my forefathers helped to build.

Blessings to you.

Black Unity