(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s just that simple.
Over the past few days I have gotten into heated arguments with men who have presented and positioned themselves as Pro-Black, yet they find themselves incapable of standing against a Black man who has repeatedly violated Black women.
There is something inherently wrong with your Pro-Blackness if it is a gendered Pro-Blackness incapable of taking stances that improve the position of Black women.
There’s no Huey P. Newton in your philosophy if your main concerns are a caricature of everything the men and women who constituted the real Black Panther Party stood for.
There’s no way you can announce to the world that you are Pro-Black, yet blatantly cling to misogyny, uphold rape culture and mimic a White patriarchal system, which seeks to keep Black women underneath your boots.
That’s not Pro-Black. That is Black Patriarchy.
Look around you when there is a violation of your human rights as Black men. Who is there to lead the marches and the protests and the rallies on behalf of Black men everywhere? Without a doubt it is Black Women who have stood up and protested and protected Black men’s lives in this country. Why is it that we cannot return the favor? Why are we so intent on dogging Black women and insisting that those women are only out to ruin The Black Man? What you’re saying when you say things like that is that Black women are not to be trusted. That their worth and their lives are only useful when they are propping up the agenda of a Black man.
This is not any iota of what it means to be Pro-Black. Pro-Black means you fight for your people. All of your people. Not just Black men, not just straight Black men, not just Black men you think are upstanding and productive members of society, but all of your people.
You are not Pro-Black if you erase Black women who are feminists from the conversation by telling them that feminism destroys the Black family unit. Pick up a book. Google bell hooks. Google Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. Google something scholarly. Something with the letters .edu behind it.
Google: Critical Black Feminist Thought.
Read those texts, absorb those texts. Listen to what your sisters are trying to tell you about being a Black woman in America. Hear their pain and think deeply about what you can do to help alleviate that. Do what you can to help them navigate social spaces a little bit easier. Do not erase them from existence because you don’t like hearing women say that they don’t need men. Truth is they don’t. They don’t. If anything we need them. We need their strength, we need their vibrancy, we need their softness, but most of all we need their support.
Without Black women, where are Black men? That’s a question that every so-called Black man needs to ask himself daily.
He also needs to ask himself, what do Black women need me to do, need me to say, need me to become so that we both may improve our lots in this American pecking order that wants to put us both at the bottom rung? Those are the things that are needed, that are necessary. I never want to see a Black man questioning whether a Black woman is really here for the race again. Because Black women have been here for the entire race and will continue to do so because that’s what Black women do. They fight. They stand. They make themselves known.
Black women are on the front lines of the fight every day, suffering in silence, suffering in plain sight.
And I get it, our concerns may be more overt?–?it may seem like more of us are dying at the hands of police officers, but so are Black women. Black women and girls are also at more of a risk of slipping through the cracks of the American academic system. Black women are institutionalized at higher rates than Black men.
Black women are stigmatized by the larger society at every turn. Shouldn’t we be trying to ease their burdens instead of questioning their motives?
But I guess it’s not an issue until it hits home. I guess the rape and the silencing of Black women by powerful men is not a problem unless it is your wife, your daughter, your friend.
Understand this, Black men. It should not take someone you know being brutalized for you to wake you up and realize that these women do not deserve to be treated like insurgent agents when a narrative you do not like ceases being a narrative and starts being the truth. We need each other in this crazy world, and it is past time that Pro-Black started meaning more than Pro Black Man.
It is time that Pro-Black means Pro-Black Everybody.
Written by Daniel Johnson
Official website; http://thsppl.com/
To the author, your definition of pro-black is all wrong. It is not wise for any African American to support lesbianism or feminism which in fact works against, belittles and erodes the family unit ordained by God. Your message is one of selling out to perversion, chaos and the order not set up by the Creator.
We are not BLACK. Email me at brainstormonline@yahoo.com if you want proof. But for now, look at your car tires and place your hand next to them. Are you the same color? You have a lot to learn about why we have been labeled as we have by white oppressors and terms that are blatantly negative.
I suggest you need to realize the woman was made for the man, not the reverse. I suggest you recognize she is to be a help meet to him (no not a slave and I respect my wife highly). You apparently did not get the right message or training from your dad. And it shows.
The author of this article seems to have been mentally emasculated. Another traitor putting down African American men instead of lifting us up (and of course holding us accountable in the RIGHT way).
There are so many things wrong with Daniel’s (author) analysis. And its sad how many people like this article. The African American man has been restricted, restrained, ostracized, killed, targeted and oppressed more than ANY PERSON on this planet, including African American women.
This author is more like a feminist on her cycle who hates men.
Author check your hormone level.
Mrs. Smart says:
October 14, 2015 at 10:50 pm
“Joe” is another fatherless babydaddy simp. I sure do pity your bastards.
The author is one of the last decent good bm of his generation the rest want to be LAMAR ODOM.
Yuppers those ww sure do know how to take care of a bruvva all the way to the grave.
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You’ve already revealed that you have some mental health issues going on. So, it makes sense that you would follow up nonsense with more nonsense. If you had a brain, you’d be dangerous.
Joe is right on target. I am a veteran African American family and relationship counselor and a former detective. The author sounds like he hates AA men and our brothers needed to be corrected but lifted up, not thrown under the bus. Furthermore, where is the author getting his facts? If it is from personal experiences limited. He has a homemade standard that no mainline spiritual belief even accepts as truth and this article is reverse racism.
“Joe” is another fatherless babydaddy simp. I sure do pity your bastards.
The author is one of the last decent good bm of his generation the rest want to be LAMAR ODOM.
Yuppers those ww sure do know how to take care of a bruvva all the way to the grave.
Stop regurgitating white rhetoric.
We both men/women have to stop the madness by pointing fingers at one another because we are both riding in the same boat regardless of what materials have been acquired. without real deep consciousness we all of walking idiots and slaves to this system. Women express their emotions on the subject more than men do and never a creative positive thoughts to build nor curtail the issue. The shit list of Black males that they past around with realizing all those males came from a black woman. I have to agree with JDEAN on this because if you are advocating to lift our communities, she should than start in her own womb. This article has to be referring to the 50’s and 60’s movements when we really had communities to defend. Now day, the change takes place with her pasting on a shit list of black males for her daughters to look out for to keep her mind in a box from what it really takes for a real relationship. Your black son will be castrated mentally by this shit list before he have a chance to make decisions in his life. If she is claiming to be a strong Queen, she need to put a positive thought that will produce a progressive out come in the future of her off springs no matter how many shit lists with obstacles in their way. No real black male are hating because black males have been in these relationship and have lost and has been destroyed from the pathological mental diseases the way some of these women think today and it all need to be challenged. It is total mind control and design to destroy the original indigenous copper colored people of this planet. I look at the mind and intentions of a person as a Pro-Black male..If it is not to build our communities back in order, that mind is no different then the white supremacy that have been attacking all people of color.
Daniel Johnson you are attempting to paint all brothers in a light that you would mad at black brothers for doing to black women… So these are three examples of brothers(black men) standing up for black women https://youtu.be/xoUKhik7Uq4 https://youtu.be/6eaKzlorjJM https://youtu.be/5QvY-So0oCk
Black patriarchy? What systems do black men have setup to hold black women down. It sounds like you read to many Belle Hooks books. Black feminism is a plan by white supremacy to keep the black family divided but it seems you weren’t smart enough to not fall for it. Some black men are on the internet hating on black women like TJ Sotomoyer but he has been exposed as a clown and most dudes who do that are coons. But black women need to take some responsibility for some of our plight as black people. The women is the first nurturer, teacher of our babies so their role is very important and lots of black women, not all have dropped the ball. A lot of men are fed up with the negro bedwench, the hood rat and the entitled bossy educated female so we have a right to expose that so we can make each other better. A lot of women have gave up on black men and show their self hatred and when you say what you say it furthers the divide. Black women have gone on Steve Harvey, Queen Latifah, Wendy Williams downing black men saying there are no good ones bec we are in jail, dead or down low. Which is bullshit. How many black women have turned down so many good brothers for losers or a pro athlete or a dude with a nice car , or a d boy who was ballin? So miss us with that black feminism crap, nobody is tryin to hold you down. You get hired before us in corporate America bec you aren’t a threat to the white man . He actually wants to fuck you and black women aren’t as a whole smarter than black man. They just get more opportunity these days. FACT The black man is treated worse than any species in this country for sure, so ride with us or step off the scene. You bitches couldnt lead us out of a casino in Vegas.
You cannot define an African American man by an African American woman. Go back to Genesis and notice the woman was made for the man and she was made after the man. She was also created to assist the man as a help meet, not to define him. I do not know where you are getting your logic but it is faulty.
Love is not based on color and you should speak about the woman’s allegiance to the man more so than the reverse.
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What’s sad is that we African Americans are still calling ourselves BLACK because Caucasian oppressors called us that to contrast their color and to assign to us all the negative things BLACK is equated with in the dictionary. The fact is, like it or not and believe it or not, YOU ARE BROWN and your car tires are black. You can say black is a culture but when they deal with you, they deal with you based on it’s definition – dismal, gloomy, dark, diabolical, treacherous, devoid of light. WAKE UP AFRICAN AMERICANS. We do not call the Asian yellow man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Native American a red man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Hispanic man a brown man because he would not stand for it. And many Africans, Haitians and Jamaicans do not accept being called a color they know they are NOT.
Ironically, African Americans are the only ethnic group/race on the planet which allows ourselves to be called a color we are not, allowing ourselves to be defined by color, by someone else and to allow ourselves to be attached to a color we are not – a color they filled with negative denotations. Then we fight to help keep the lie in place. Is it any wonder that cops treat us as BLACK people by the definition of dismal, gloomy, treacherous, evil etc? We will never rise and overcome as a people if we allow other groups to define us, to define us with a lie and we are sadly willing to help them. AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES MATTER PEOPLE. Black is the color of my car tires, not my skin. I am a family and relationship counselor who specializes in deprogramming African Americans from slavery mindsets.
“observer says:
October 13, 2015 at 12:48 pm
Joe, Spoken like a true bitter brother.”
This is called “perverse psychology”; and I know exactly who has programmed this line of illogical and irrational thinking into your brain.
The bitter one is OBVIOUSLY the individual I replied to. It’s very obvious who the bitter one is. So, since you have no shame about demonstrating such a low level of competency, then you’re most likely afflicted by the same type of psychopathology, which we see so common with ‘White’ people. They call you racist for pointing out their racism. Since I identified that Mrs. Smarts is bitter, the bitter people called me bitter.
So, not only are you bitter, but you’re most likely a white supremacist proxy, which is why you’ve defended one who all but explicitly admitted to being a bitter white supremacy proxy.
Joe, Spoken like a true bitter brother.
re: Mrs. Smart
Good riddance! Nothing ventured, nothing lost. You didn’t leave. You were never here.
Black males don’t want sisterhood. Hate their Mothers want to breed white men thats why they chase ww. BM went from F the police to F the BW.
Notice all the males who are bashing BW they do it to get closer to what they really want to be and who they really want to do: the wm. Its not ww its wm that these males slobber over.
Also the slave master had his way with man yof them so they want that place back in history.
its a wrap if this can’t make these phony males understand that the world watches bw march picket protest and protect them… ah who cares. I’m married white I left long ago this just came up on google alerts for bw/wm.
BYE good luck jailbirds.
re: jumbo;
so true.
You’re a simp mangina