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Being a millennial means spending your 20’s and 30’s preparing for a future that you’re not sure even exists

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Becky with the White Tears

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that white women do nothing, except cry, with their tears forming a pool of benefit of the doubt, drowning any perceived threats to the status quo in the deep end. I wonder if Edmund Burke had any idea that the pervasiveness of evil could also be as a result of women too, white women at that. No one EVER questions the motives of white women when they make accusations. Susan Smith stood at that podium, with tears in her eyes and a fragile gentility in her voice, on national television and said that a black man had forced her from her car and taken it with her babies in it, when it turned out that SHE had strapped those children into their car seats and let her vehicle roll into a lake, with them in it, as it sank to the bottom and those boys panicked and struggled to breathe underwater. “Mental illness!” her defense attorney declared. NO ONE questioned her story and for over a week, she kept up that charade. Emmett Till; Rosewood, FL; missing white woman syndrome, all the result of WWTs: white woman tears. Whether she is blonde, brunette, smart, lacking intelligence, short, tall, fat, trim, stunningly mediocre, or outstandingly high-achieving, the tears need only be white. The emphasis on white women’s physical appearance or achievements isn’t a degradation of THEM, but it is the observable lack of any common things, except whiteness. They don’t have to qualify in order for their concerns to be taken seriously. Taylor Swift swore up and down that she didn’t know that Kanye was going to reference her negatively in one of his songs but as it turned out, KKW had receipts. While I think that he’s a petulant and troubled man, and Donda took Yeezy’s good sense with her to the grave, the quickness with which people took up Taylor’s cause was a glaring example of the effects of cries of distress from white women, even false ones, can have. I have most recently been at the receiving end of the #whitelash as a result of white women tears. I’m angry and tired. White women and black men HATE black women, and oddly enough, both do so seemingly for all the same reasons. Maybe BM and WW compare notes and take pages from each other’s play books or something. White women can be bigger bullies than black men and they bully us because they can. It’s tiring as fuck to be engaged in sadistic psychological games of cat and mouse with the queens of rock-throwing and hand-hiding. Black women have ZERO protection against white woman fragility, no quiet place of refuge or high and dry ground as a place of respite from the flood of their unseasoned WWTs. White women are dangerous. I’m tired. Fuck them!

#Becky

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The Difference is Black and White: All Feminism Is Not Created Equal.

A childhood friend and I chat and catch up from time to time via the webz. She is working on her Ph.D. in Florida and I like to pick her brain about things going on. Our conversations sometimes end up at race, sexism, black community ish, feminism, etc. On the matter of feminism, I summed up white feminism in a few words:

White feminism is the peak of white woman boredom. They have run out of shit to do! White feminism operates on the premise of white women muling and laboring tirelessly to prove that they are equal to their men and can hang with the boys, not realizing that they have a patriarch that is doing what it’s supposed to do collectively and has done since the being: protect and provide. White women want to be just as oppressive as white men. White women have run out of shit to do. They want so badly to be oppressed when they don’t have to be. White women have a worthy collective patriarch that protects, provides, builds and supports. They actually have a standard of care, which was set by white men and is reinforced by white men. Faux-pression is a helluva drug. White feminism is edgy, fun, even, because being protected physically, financially, and socially, is apparently boring. Meanwhile, black feminism has been about liberation from oppression and violence committed by the insecure, feckless, and subpar black patriarch, which has failed, and miserably so, to set a standard of care for black women and girls. Black women are head and shoulders above black men and we’ve never needed to prove we could be equal to men we had already surpassed. Harriet Tubman didn’t sit around and wait for a black man to make moves. She said: “Fuck it. I’ll do it” and it was made so. She is the OG of feminism. It was then that the jig was up for the black male collective. It’s hard to respect a collective that failed at a very important job. Why in the world would black women work to take a demotion to prove we are equal to a collective of men to which we are and always have been far superior?

She asked me, “Why aren’t I seeing any scholarly publications from you?! You write about pertinent information or even non scholarly forums?!”

I said, “People don’t want to come to the original source because they are arrogant. Like…how are you going to dictate feminism to the ORIGINAL feminists? It’s okay to not found/create/produce everything. It’s not okay to not acknowledge the original sources and creators. Black feminism and white feminism are so separate from each other…”

White women can be so confidently arrogant while at the same time woefully and painfully unaware. White women don’t realize how their lives and image greatly differ from those of black women. They don’t know that the stakes are different for us and them. They don’t see the overall collective familial and social support they have and if something goes wrong with their spouse and/or children, anything that disrupts the dynamic, they have a safety net. Look at starter marriages. White women are the spokeswomen of starter marriages. I have more than a few examples of starter marriages involving white friends and acquaintances who moved on to the next man with their kids in tow and/or before the ink on their divorce decree was dry. White women get hella mulligans and children from previous relationships don’t make them damaged goods. White women have the social support such that their image isn’t tarnished because of being single moms. In fact, white women are the FACE of positive single motherhood by CHOICE. The articles I’ve read and the books I’ve seen out there regarding white women and being single mothers by choice present this choice in such a positive and supportive light. The image of black single mothers, whether by choice or not, has no positive collective support, at all. White single mothers aren’t blamed for the ills in the white community. Anything that goes wrong in the black community will be blamed on black single moms. All of the finger pointing is at black single moms, and what they do with the $17.83 child support check they receive each month with the legal father is working a job that takes out taxes.

On January 21st, white women marched because Trump grabbed WHITE women’s pussies. The same women who are a part of the collective of ww that elected him…were marching. They weren’t marching for women. They were marching for WHITE women. Trump is a grabber of only the finest of white pussies. Sis, this isn’t about you and your best interests. It never was. Think about all of the things that have been happening to black women on a collective and individual level. Who was taking up the cross and advocating for us? Remember; when white women were burning their Maidenform bras, YOUR black mothers, grandmothers, and Annies were hooking theirs closed to go to work at a second job, just to feed, clothe, and house a family that they didn’t create alone but somehow got stuck raising and defending solo. Rebecca got to return to her nice house in the suburbs. When white women are tired of throwing rocks, they wash their hands and hide them.

About the only thing black women and white women have in common is the centering of the black phallus. The same ww who believe #blacklivesmatter are very quick to dismiss black women when we speak of the undercurrent in the BC regarding domestic violence, sexual abuse, poverty, homophobia, etc. and the disproportionate impact on black women and girls. “That happens to white women, too.” “We get judged for x,y, and z, too.” NO IT DOESN’T AND NO YOU DON’T OR WE WOULDN’T BE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION, REBECCA.” They retort with, “#yesallwomen, attempting to dismiss and marginalize black women and girls while giving black men priority and preference, after of course, they have centered their ivory, beige, and porcelain selves, which is proof positive that even in white, well-meaning, gentrified spaces, the black peen reigns supreme.

White women have failed in their quest for equality, namely because they have no idea what they are doing. They’re running around here in pink pussy hats thinking that they are really moving mountains. They’re not though. They are tired and worn out and their attempts have backfired, because the best thing(s) white feminism has produced is the possibility of women going to wars started by MEN, women paying for dates, and splitting bills down the middle while still doing most of, if not all of the “woman’s work”.

White women have too much free time.

And you know what? I think they are starting to realize that they have gotten a raw deal, which makes me suspect that this (white feminism) was never about their equality but their attempt to coopt something else from black women, and center themselves, not knowing the story behind it. They didn’t know what they were taking on. They bit off more than they can chew. This isn’t a secret potato salad or macaroni and cheese recipe they can easily Columbus. This isn’t a new thing they “discovered”, like boxer braids. This life as an unambiguously black woman, with brown skin and features that remain undiluted by European DNA, isn’t for the faint of heart. This is a commitment, a daily tightrope of being strong, but not too strong, pretty, but not too pretty, kind, but not too kind, smart but not too smart, magical but not overwhelming so. White women aren’t built like we are and for what we are. This black woman strength, resilience, patience, endurance and inexplicable magic, cannot be packaged and sold or duplicated.

#feminism #blackwomen #blackfeminism #blackfeminist #blackgirlmagic

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Charleena Lyles: Dead Girl Walking

Charleena Lyles, the 30 year old pregnant woman, who was already a mother to FOUR other children, one of whom has special needs, in front of whom she was killed, is a glaring, festering, oozing sore on the backside of the black community and it is proof fucking positive that the black community hates black women. Male-perpetuated violence, abandonment, reckless breeding, no male accountability, no protection, no provision, no standard of care. No wise counsel. She, up to and including her death, Charleena was an indictment of the black community and represented everything that is wrong with it. Thirty years old. FOUR children, one with Down syndrome, one of whom is 10 years old, which means Charleena was pregnant on a consistent basis since at LEAST the age of 20. Pregnant with a FIFTH. Living “an apartment complex for people transitioning out of homelessness”. Struggling with mental illness. Let ALL of those variables sink in. Her family wants answers and they should get them. She was a daughter, a friend, and a sister. She was a mother, and for all intents and purposes, her children are now orphans. Howsomeever, I have a few questions of my own. Where were those mythical kangs of black lore? Why wasn’t there one with her to protect his castle and children? Where were the elusive “good black men” when this woman needed help? How the hell did it get to the point of that woman dying, scared, alone, and tired, while she was holding a knife? How did her life get so far into the gutter that it ended with her dying in front of her children? Those cops killed her but she was dead in the water and her life was over long before the first shot was fired. Black folks love to romanticize group economics and get all starry-eyed when speaking in terms of a village and community, but when the rubber meets the road and it’s time for a village member to be lifted up in their time of need, the village fails at fulfilling its purpose. Where were Charleena’s people to protect her from the predatory animals that bred her and abandoned her, leaving her vulnerable, desperate, and homeless? Charleena was a broodmare, bred and abandoned, then sent to the slaughter, and offered up as a sacrificial lamb. She was the product of the type of slavery that keeps black people bound by mental shackles, even though their hands and feet are free, and the plantations on which theirs ancestors labored and died have grown over. A mentality that sees birthing children regardless of the circumstances and environment, as an inalienable, zero-cost, low-impact right. An “I can’t do anything else with my life, so I might as well have a child and prove I can do SOMETHING” thought process. It’s amazing and disturbing that a group of people that is more likely to get the short end of the economic, social, political stick, would continue to put itself in a position to be subject to laws and policies designed to keep it at the mercy of the system it claims to be against. When opposition to this counterproductive behavior is raised, there are accusations of aligning with eugenics and white supremacy. It's a mess, like a train wreck that you just can’t seem to stop staring at. There needs to be a fire cleansing to clear out the brush and rubbish and allow for new growth. A purge of sorts. Sandra Bland. Jessica Hampton. Korryn Gaines. Charleena Lyles. In their time of need, they were abandoned and left to die and their children are without mothers. The campaign for Alton Sterling's children, raised over half a million dollars. These women's children and families didn't and won't see one red cent from the village into which they and so many other black women and girls were and will be recruited, to be preyed upon, exploited, and drained of energy, resources, and life. The black community HATES black women. DBR black males and their equally depraved mammies/mules want to see free, successful, powerful women FAIL. They want company in all of their dysfunction and misery. They want others to stew in their own waste alongside them. They are parasites in need of hosts. There is no protection or provision for black women and girls. Any woman that continues to stay loyal to a group that not only hates them but deliberately and maliciously acts and operates in opposition to the best interest of black women is an absolute pure-dee fool. Another hashtag. Another black woman. Another casualty of Blackistan. Fuck the village!

#charleenalyles

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Me. 😂😩

When you genuinely enjoy your own company and are okay with being by yaself but know deep down that you're most likely going to die alone

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“Jonathan Meadows’ family denies that he was abusive.”🙄 “…Jonathan Meadows’ sister Lena Cooper asserted that if he was violent, Brandi should have just left the home.”🙄 “My brother was a good man…”🙄 “Jonathan Meadows’ family admitted that there was one domestic violence incident in 2011 but claims that it was in the ‘past’.”🙄 Another example of a woman throwing another woman under the bus to save d*ck. Another “good black man” being absolved of his responsibility for HIS behavior by women who declare as god is their witness, #notmyson or brother or uncle. GTFOH!🙄 "Wtf makes women think they can MOTHER the savage out a male? His DICK will always lead the way, attached to a hypersexualized, entitled ass brain. Yeah, that IS YOUR SON." - Terry Oden Black women, if you’re wondering who the enemy is, look no further. The enemy is women who look like you who do not have your best interest, safety or well-being at heart. Do not be fooled. The enemy is in the camp and it's time to vote these traitorous weak links off the fucking island.🙅🏾

#notmyson #freebreshameadows #freebresha

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"Toxic black motherhood has moms in competition with their daughters and in bed with their sons."

- Me

#toxicblackmotherhood

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Hands-Free Zone: Stopping hitting black girls! 🙅🏾

I see we're going to have to have yet another conversation about black mothers who can't keep their hands off of their daughters. I refuse to share the video because I've seen it and it makes me angry and want to spend ten minutes alone with that mom to have a conversation of my own with her. A woman threatened to beat her daughter...for playing dress up. For wearing her mom's and sister's close and shoes, the consequence is corporal punishment, which I'm certain ensued after the camera stopped recording. Let that sink in. Another example of a woman who bred prematurely and out of season and is now threatened by and insanely jealous of her daughter's budding womanhood, because of a bad choice in a male/partner who abandoned her. Again for those in the back and who are just tuning in: STOP BEATING THE JOY, FEMININITY, AND LIFE OUT OF YOUR DAUGHTERS! They are NOT your competition. They are NOT your second chance. They are NOT your redemption. Go to therapy and get the healing you need! Ask yourself why an adult woman would feel that she is in competition with her daughter for the same suitor(s). I don't know about common core math, but something isn't adding up... When I raise the topics of breeding out of season and birthing under traumatic conditions, and the longterm and far-reaching consequences, I'm dismissed and accused of being an elitist, aligning with respectability politics and mimicking white supremacy and eugenics. Okay. That's fine. I'm just going to start setting some coins aside to donate to the costs of the legal defense for these daughters who get charged with putting down these animals they had the misfortune of being born to, along with the rogue males for whom these mothers have sacrificed their daughters. Toxic black motherhood is killing people and enough is enough. This isn't working. Fix this shit! "A girl child ain't safe in a family full of men." Tuh. As it turns out, Ms. Sophia didn't know a girl child isn't even safe with own mother...

#protectblackgirls #toxicblackmotherhood

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Myth: Fast-tailed black girls. Fact: Issa Lie

It’s time for another conversation about how black girls are set up to fail from the start. Black girls aren’t allowed to just be, to dance, sing, laugh, play, wear clothes, play dress up, play with makeup, without some raggedy ass adult projecting adultness onto them or falsely assigning promiscuity to them. Black girls can’t seem to be carefree and do anything without it being sexualized. Smiling. Being happy. If a black girl does anything to express joy for being a damn girl, there's an assignation of a sexual context. Sick ass individuals even do this gross shit to BABIES! I've seen the screenshots. Myth: Fast-tailed black girls: Ask questions. Blow kisses. Wiggle their hips to music. Want to wear their hair down. They're being grown if they speak up. They're being fast for laughing and interacting with the world. Fact: Black girls are sexualized and labeled fresh-tailed, fast, grown, and hot in the ass, in order to groom them for, and condition them to, internalize their sexual abuse. A girl child shouldn't be running around wearing...cute, frilly, shorts or tight clothes. Those budding breasts could cause a man to stumble and slip his ashy hand down a girl's shirt, even though it is he who is supposed to pluck HIS eye out of it should cause him to sin. The onus is placed on black girls to absolve uncle Otis and his leaky dick, so he can keep attending the family cookouts and tell the girls, including the teenagers how "thick" they are and what he would do to them if they weren't related and so mama can pretend to not to know that her crusty ass bf, Donquavius Marshawn Hall, III, "Don Don" or "Lil D" as he's known on the streets, is sneaking his predatory ass into her daughter's room at night after he's finished with mama. When she does "find out", because her daughter gets pregnant or tests positive for an STD/STI, mama can accuse her daughter of trying to steal her man and have a perfectly clear conscience while doing so, while refusing to hold accountable the male she chose to take up with, and Quavi's mom can declare with absolute certainty, "#notmyson". Stop worshipping black dick, ANY dick really, and protect your daughters. Protect black girls! Fast-tailed black girls don't exist. What the fuck is wrong with y'all?

#protectblackgirls #notmyson

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Not My Son...

"Wtf makes women think they can MOTHER the savage out a male? His DICK will always lead the way, attached to a hypersexualized, entitled ass brain. Yeah, that IS YOUR SON." - Terry Oden I just watched a video of a black woman getting knocked down when she was hit by a bag of garbage that was thrown at her by a trash-ass black male. I don't tend to watch violent videos; I'm not into pain porn. I don't need to see black women and girls being abused or hurt by black males to know that the most detrimental thing for any black woman or girl is a black male. It was shared by a FB as a cautionary tale to leave black males alone and do not subject yourselves to their presence and do not grant them access to you. Of course there are the black women who will declare that the males in the videos, or the males trafficking black girls, or males raping black girls, or males destroying communities, lives, recipes, and credit scores is #notmyson. The same son who is trapping out of her kitchen and sitting up in her house during the day, doing nothing and running the streets at night, in HER car. "Not my son." It's never your son. Of course not. It could never be YOUR son. Newsflash, b!+€#! It is your son. Who do you think is committing these atrocities? These savages belong to somedamnbody. FOH! They were pushed out of SOME woman. These are the sons you have birthed and continue to birth, to the detriment of black women and girls. Yes, YOUR sons. The sons you birth out of struggle and dysfunction. These are the monsters YOU create, your Frankensteins, out of brokenness, only for them to wreak havoc on black girls and black women, causing more brokenness. The sons for whom you will sacrifice your daughters. The sons who shed the innocent blood and steal the lives of your daughters. The daughters who are thrown to the wolves so that you may coddle, suckle and protect your sons. The sons who are reined in by the boys in blue, because that is the only thing they fear: the thin blue line. The thin blue line that turns the streets red to protect your daughters because you won't. The garbage collectors that take out the trash because you won't. The sons for whom you march, protest, and sacrifice, who do not do the same for you. The disrespectful sons who kill, degrade, neglect and abuse the very women who birthed them. The sons who hate your image and work to erase it. The sons who hate you and destroy you. These are YOUR sons. The poisonous fruit of your poisoned wombs, Eve. The rotten bounty that you have harvested from the cursed earth and put in the world. Lilith would have handled this by now. Lilith would have collected these raggedy-ass degenerates and offered them up as living sacrifices. These are YOUR gremlins that you got wet, the ones you fed after midnight. This blood is on YOUR hands. These are YOUR sons. These men originated from some mother's shore. These men are sheltered in some mother's harbor. No man is a fucking island! #notmyson - LFA

#notmyson #misogyny #misogynoir #violenceagainstblackwomen

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The Gold (read: white) standard

Patriarchy is a long-standing structure that can use a major overhaul. Like a historic home or building that has a decent enough foundation but can use a lot of work that will require some serious renovation after a good gutting. Some parts, such as support beams, which are fairly decent, will stay, because they are aesthetically pleasing and other components of the building will rely upon those beams. One of the beams of patriarchy that should remain is a standard of care. A standard of care is the rule book or code of conduct for the treatment of something or someone.

In a patriarchy, men set the standard of care and it’s woefully apparently that Black men have failed to do put one in place. Black men have failed to set a standard of care when it comes to the treatment, education, support, protection of, and provision for Black women and girls, to be followed and upheld by Black men and boys, as an example of how Black women and girls are to be treated. With toxic masculinity and misogynoir being expressed by some dick-pandering women, this standard has to be enforced against them too. If our own men disown us, is it any wonder that the rest of the world refuses to see our humanity? Emmett Till was brutally murdered and the killers acquitted because Emmett was THOUGHT to have flirted with a white woman because he talked to her and the town of Rosewood was destroyed because a Black man was THOUGHT to have beaten and raped a white woman, with the avengers and vigilantes allegedly operating by “First and Always Protect Womanhood” motto. Those are absolutely horrific and extreme examples of the standard of care, but it sent a message that white women were off limits and anyone to violate that would be punished. There is nothing anywhere even CLOSE to that in the BC. Nothing. Only excuses, lack of accountability, weakness, shiftlessness, apathy, laziness, and violence. Black women were too easy to forgive, acquiesce to and overcompensate for this failure and sheltered black males in their bosoms and under their skirt tails and that’s where black men have been seeking refuge and concealment ever since. White men have legislation written to protect their daughters. They make phone calls and schedule meetings. They contact the media, lawyers and politicians. Black men call their pastors and issue statements about forgiveness and the loving kindness of white Jesus. See: AMBER Alert, Kayla’s Law, and check out HB286 that came out of the Utah state legislature because of Elizabeth Smart. It passed in the House 73-0!!! White daddy does NOT fuck around about his daughter! White daddy will put a stainless steel surgical blade to the carotid artery of anyone who violates his daughter, and slit them from ear to ear. He’ll put the muzzle to their temple and pull the trigger. White daddy does not give a fuck! I posit that some people paint patriarchy negatively with a wide brush and relegate the entire thing to the trash heap because they haven’t taken the time to deconstruct it and analyze its components. I would be upset too, if I were 1. A conquered black male who has failed to protect, provide for and defend the women of my origin, or 2. One of those women who has pledged undying, blind and detrimental loyalty to one or more of the men included in the collective described by 1, but I’m not. I’d be be quite pressed too, if I couldn’t beat it or join it…

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No country (or trophies) for "good black men"

As is the standard operating procedure in the black community, after a public incident wherein a black woman is hurt or killed by a black man, the resounding phrase from the ashy-n-aimless dick gallery and its fluffers is, “She should of chose better”. For the record, the correct use of those words is “have chosen”. If one, an irrelevant black male in these instances, is going to pontificate about how the woman should have picked a better man instead of how that man should BE better, then correct the admonishing retort should be: “She should have chosen better.” Past participles and all that, but I digress.

At any rate, when black men say, “choose better”, what they’re really saying is women should choose someone less terrible. She should choose someone who has 3 kids by 2 different women, instead of one who has 4 by 3. She should choose someone with a conviction of reckless driving, not DWI on his record, a charge of lewd acts with a minor, not rape. The lesser of the many evils. Black women are expected to dig through a pile of trash to find the least broken piece that is the easiest to mend with some super glue, prayer, collard greens and p*ssy. You know? The brotha who just needs a chance. A “good black man”…

If a black woman wants a NEW car, she is expected to go to the junkyard, salvage yard, or scrap heap to find a new-to-her car. After spending hours in the hot sun walking the rows of “options”, her choices are: the 2000 Ford Explorer with a busted axle and 189k miles or the 2006 Kia Sephia with a blown head gasket and 200k miles. Guess what? She’s not going to be able to get where she needs to go, on a regular basis, with either of those cars, at least not without an inordinate amount of repair, which will cost her more than it’s worth. However, in the end, after several breakdowns, flat tires, duct tape, and several high-interest payday loans to cover repairs, she’ll have her a “good” car. “See? I’s drivin’ now”.

The good black man is dead. As a matter of fact, he never existed.

That’s just a lie black women have been fed by the black community in order to keep black women energized with false hope and accessible to the leeches who want to use them and leave them depleted, unfit, and unqualified for someone else after they have tapped out their resources. The goal is to leave a black woman as damaged beyond repair as the men who do the damage. Misery loves company and it’s a parasite, so it needs a host.

When a black man says he’s a “good black man”, he’s saying that he does the basics, what he’s supposed to do, like protect, divide, defend, and build. When he says he’s a “good black man”, he’s saying that he should be given credit for doing the bare minimum, because in relation to his block-hugging peers, he’s going above and beyond. He’s exhibiting the appropriate behavior of well-adjusted, fully-functioning, adult men, yet he thinks he’s moving mountains. He expects praise because “at least he’s…” or “he could be doing…” or “at least he isn’t…” or “he comes home at night”. He wants to be recognized for not being abusive, unfaithful, predatory, neglectful, or violent. A trophy for finding his way to and from work ever day he’s scheduled to be there. The “good black man” is a loaded, seemingly innocuous label. However, it is dangerous, because it is a distinction that has been unilaterally assigned to and usually by the person toting the “good black man” badge. It’s subjective and arbitrary, and precludes the label wearer from inspection, review, or oversight. “I told you I’m a good man. What more do you need?” This lack of accountability is the equivalent of a company/entity/organization, etc. finding that it has not engaged in any wrongdoing after an internal investigation or in-house audit. “Good black men” also come spring-loaded, with anger, resentment, and entitlement. They’re “good black men” after all, and they should be have all the rights and authority granted thereto. You know? The same way your bachelor’s degree grants you all the privileges that earning one affords, yet there’s no proof that you actually know what you’re doing and there’s no evidence of what you’ve done.

Be very cautious of men who call themselves a “good black man”. I emphasize “good black man” because I don’t know of another race or group of men that has to declare itself because its actions have not created a good reputation to precede it. There’s a reputation to precede black men, but it’s not an overall or overwhelmingly positive one, which is the reason for the “good” adjective. Be very suspect of black men who label themselves good. They are coming to you with hopes that your expectations are low and requirements are few and they’ll be really angry when your social, monetary, physical, and intellectual value exceeds their budget. Instead of them leaping over and clearing hurdles, they’ll want and expect you to do the limbo to see how low you can go…