The Capital City Courier, a black newspaper out of Springfield Illinois, is asking if Black Women Can Raise Black Boys To Be Black Men. CCC: Can Black Women Raise Black Boys To Be Black Men?. My answer is not alone and just look at the results of boys who grow up without fathers compared to those who do. Men and women are different no matter what the feminazis try to tell us. Beyond socialization, which is still very important, there are natural and genetic differences between us (this is a good thing by the way). Any woman can try to bring a boy up to be the type of man she wants him to be or thinks he should be, but that isn't making him a man. We can all agree that there are basic principles of civilized upbringing that either a mother or father alone can teach, but being a woman or being a man goes beyond that. When my nephew turned 10, my sister went through a period of mourning because she sort of lost him. Suddenly, my brother-in-law became the beginning and end for Evan. His attention, his approval, his advice was all Evan cared about. My mother told my sis that there comes a time when a boy needs his father more than his mother; a time when he realizes he isn't going to just be an adult, but he's going to be a man and he needs to know and SEE what that's like. He's eager for bonafide approval that he is on the right path. What is happening to all the black (or any other race for that matter) boys who don't have a father around when that time comes? I think we see the answer all around us. BlackNews.com: Local Black Newspaper Continues to Stir Community-Wide Dialogue
Haven't written about Bill Cosby causing a stir in a little while, so I thought I'd keep you updated. Richard Prince writes about Cosby's challenge to the Washington Posts' current series on Being a Black Man, which I thought was well done. Cosby, not so much. He thinks they are being a little too upbeat. Cosby Challenges Washington Post"I'm not interested in hearing that things aren't as bad as they seem. They're horrible," Cosby said at "Paths to Success: A Forum on Young African-American Men," sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Post and Harvard University.
And guess what? Someone has something to say about that and his name might be Michael Dyson. I smell a cage match!
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