Comrades,
Long time readers know that I am a man whose ancestors hail from Mozambique, Ireland, Germany, Israel, and parts unknown.
On U.S. Census forms, I identify myself as African American.
I've been writing for quite some time that
the Afro-American family is dead, and that political feminism and government conspired to kill it. This is a subject that is near and dear to my heart.
Today, Dear Readers, I want to revisit this topic and chronicle the sad and bizarre situation that is black love, sex, marriage, and gender relations in 2009 America. On the bright side, some light bulbs are coming on. On the not-so-bright side, massive numbers of folks are suffering from tragically flawed political feminist public policy.
My gameplan is to share some stories of interest, and comment upon them as I see fit.
Is deal?
Ok, here we go!
Black Women still don't get it.From
MSNBC:
Marriage eludes high-achieving black women
Many remain single and childless, according to new research
By Brian Alexander
msnbc.com contributor
updated 8:31 a.m. ET, Thurs., Aug 13, 2009
Michelle Obama may have become an archetypal African-American female success story — law career, strong marriage, happy children — but the reality is often very different for other highly educated black women.
They face a series of challenges in navigating education, career, marriage and child-bearing, dilemmas that often leave them single and childless even when they’d prefer marriage and family, according to a research study recently presented at the American Sociological Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
Yale researchers Natalie Nitsche and Hannah Brueckner argued that “marriage chances for highly educated black women have declined over time relative to white women.” Women of both races with postgraduate educations “face particularly hard choices between career and motherhood,” they said, “but especially in the absence of a reliable partner...”
The plight of the (more often than not) ball busting African American career woman is both interesting and tragic on a number of levels.
For all of my natural life (30+ years), the guiding philosophy of (black and white) elites can be boiled down to: 'Little black girls are good and deserve all of our time, energy and resources, and little black boys are bad and deserved to be either stoned to death or locked up.'
Now that wasn't complicated, was it?
Black girls are the focus of numerous, well financed organizations and government bodies. Feminist groups, educational groups, civil rights groups, corporate entities, and others I can't think of at the moment have devoted an obscene amount of time and money to educate and elevate black women and girls to positions of power and influence in government, business, media, and academia.
Women (black and white) have benefited vastly from this concentrated effort.
They have been less affected during our current economic downturn,
they earn higher wages than men in certain major metropolitan areas, they are the
majority of the nation's college and university students, and most importantly, the full force of feminist
public policy is backing their every move.
In short, women can usually do no wrong.
By any objective measure, the efforts to elevate women over men have been quite effective. In the black community in particular, women rule in all the ways that matter.
With the exception of the money men and their manservants at the top of the food chain, America in general truly is a
woman's nation.
I'm not saying this to be negative or self defeating, but only to acknowledge a hard fact. As I've been saying for quite a while:
Women have all of the rights, privileges and prerogatives; while men only have responsibilities and liabilities.
Unfortunately for our lonely career woman, and for the nation in particular, the Matriarchal system is vastly inferior, less stable, and less productive than a society where male headship and the manly spirit of
Thumos is the driving factor.
Proof of this can be found by comparing the fates of nations where the rights of men are respected and upheld, and the nations in which Matriarchy was public policy. Throughout history, the "Patriarchal" nations were more successful and productive because, sad to say, men value principles such as discipline, honor, and justice more than women do, and actually try to uphold them in a fair and impartial manner. Sometimes the efforts are successful, other times, not. But at least they try.
Furthermore, men and women are
NOT the same. As a matter of fact, women and women are not the same. See here for posts dealing with the sliding scale of manliness and femininity [
a][
b].
Because of the absolute fact that men and women are different, and that women will seek certain kinds of men based on each individual's conscious and unconscious desires and needs, social conditioning be damned, many of today's successful black women, having drunk the feminist kool-aid, are finding that their degrees are hollow, their financial statements provide little warmth, and their lives are filled with loneliness.
The problem here is twofold:
1) The majority of black women are not brought up to attract, keep, or please a man who is in touch with his manliness or sense of honor. These women ignore the "good black men" and go for the "bad boy thug" who speaks to their deepest needs and desires. They have no inkling of what an honorable man is, or they simply don't see him because he doesn't have an MBA or doesn't drive a Mercedes Benz. In short, many of these women have contradictory programming and expectations, and are short circuited in their love lives as a result.
2) Our society is not producing the "evolved man" that the newly elevated black woman has been programmed to accept. The ideal black man that is on a higher level in terms of education, accomplishment, or success is a fairly rare commodity that is rapidly taken off the market by a huge number of hungry female competitors of all races and nations.
(I speak from personal experience; my Japanese wife aggressively pursued ME from the beginning of our relationship, and used all of her considerable womanly arts to seal the deal.)Since this kind of sophisticated man is so highly desired by high powered black female career women, and the supply of such men is artificially limited by a misandric culture and wrongheaded public policy, shortages of "eligible men" are commonplace. One cannot artificially elevate one segment of the population, leave the other behind, and expect everything to turn out fine... unless you are a feminist that is.
Getting back to the article:
... And there’s the rub. As noted in a recent Sexploration column, contrary to old media reports, most educated, professional women who want to marry can and do marry. But the picture is less bright for high-achieving black women because “marriage markets” for them have deteriorated to the point that many remain unmarried, the researchers found. Since these women also feel pressured not to become single mothers, they often go childless as well, the researchers found...
Well, I'm glad to hear that at least some of these women choose not to become the scourge of American society, i.e.
single mothers.
... In the study, Nitsche and Brueckner used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey of 50,000 households dating back to the 1970s to tease out data points on race, gender, education, marriage and fertility.
Beyond the personal interests of individual women, the trend is significant because "in terms of American society, this is one additional obstacle” to the broadening of the black middle class, Brueckner said. Fewer highly educated black people having children means that they cannot pass on those advantages and knowledge.”
This defeats the goal of affirmative action, argue some demographers. The idea behind assuring that blacks had access to higher education and graduate school was that after a generation or so, African-Americans would reach a kind of achievement parity after generations of suffering educational and career restriction. But if black women, who comprise 71 percent of black graduate students, according to the census data, do not have children, the rate of achievement reaches a kind of familial dead end.
The massive explosion of Welfare and political feminist public policy has already killed the black family. It. Is. Already. Dead. The grossly unbalanced effort to elevate black women, and ignore, in all areas of life, the issues impacting black men, is just another nail in the coffin.
Declining marriage chances
One big reason why these women remained childless is, as one might expect, that they go unmarried, experts say. Among highly educated women of both races, about 22 percent between the ages of 20 and 45 were single in the 1970s. But then that number diverged. It has remained the same for white women, but now 38 percent of black women have never been married.
“Their marriage chances have declined,” Brueckner explained. “This may sound trivial but one reason is that they outnumber men in this education group.” The disparity in education is important because Americans have a strong tendency to marry those with equal levels of education, a trend that has only grown stronger since World War II. “So since there are fewer men with the same education,” Brueckner continued, “you either have to find another group you can marry or you are out of luck. You have nowhere to go.”
Highly educated black men tend to “outmarry” (marry outside race, religion or ethnicity) at a higher rate than black women, researchers say. Think of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates or Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Both married white women.
Black women are either much more reluctant to marry outside their race, or do not have the opportunity to do so. The answer is both, Clarke said.
Actually, most women would like a man who has
superior credentials to their own. Most women are seeking a man who is slightly, moderately, or completely superior with respect to status, intelligence, earning power, and so forth. But any woman who lives in a country that produces men with less status, less education, or less earning power is bound to be disappointed once she reaches a certain level.
Again, by stacking the deck against men in all of the areas of life that matter, it is inevitable that the offending society functions at a lower level in multiple areas than it otherwise could have.
The article also references black men who marry outside of their race. As a highly intelligent black man, my philosophy is that an awake and intelligent man should
NEVER compromise and marry a woman who doesn't know what the meaning of the word wife is.
If a woman cannot cook, clean, have a pleasant and supportive attitude, be kind to my children, and have some intelligence and positive life experiences to bring to the table... then she is not wife material and shouldn't be touched with a ten foot pole.
And unfortunately, most black women fall into this category. Not only do most have ZERO wifely skills, they are UNWILLING to develop them. And, in this global marketplace of love we find ourselves in, black American women simply cannot compete with delectable Brazilian women, sultry African women, sweet Asian women, feminine European women, or women of any nationality who are in full possession of their womanly charms and aren't afraid to use them. The global competition that black women face today is unreal, and, from my personal experience at least, women worldwide are very kind to black men.
At the end of the day, black women need to step up. If they want to find male companionship, I would urge them to stop looking outside, and look inward. Because, sisters, you have a lot of internal work to do.
Time to take out the Political Feminist garbage.
Fatherless Youth at the BrinkFrom the
Toledo Journal:
Black Youth Face Growing Threat of Violence from Peers
By: Kristin Gray
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers
Originally posted 10/8/2009
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - For soft-spoken honors student Derrion Albert, death came at the hands and feet of a savage mob of his peers.
Albert, 16, of Chicago, was brutally beaten as he walked home from school Sept. 26. The culprits, four angry Black boys between the ages of 16 and 19, were videotaped bludgeoning Albert with a railroad tie plank and pummeling him in an unprovoked fit of rage.
The church-going teen’s death has brought to light the ongoing war Black youth wage against one another. Even President Obama, whose former Chicago residence is less than an hour away from the site of Albert’s death, has called the grainy, two-minute cell phone video “chilling.”
Obama will deploy Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former head of Chicago schools, to the Windy City next week to “talk about the issues of school violence and youth violence,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Oct.1...
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, government cannot solve this problem, because it
IS the problem. Governments have all manner of laws that discourage marriage, discourage family formation, and enable women to separate fathers from their children anytime they choose. Under legal and social conditions such as these, is there any wonder that the children of single mothers (like me) and broken families
living in economic depression are literally beating each other to death?
Feminist public policy and Fiat economic policy combine to devastate young black men. And yet, only a few can make the connection. Government will do nothing to solve this problem unless it repeals or reforms family and domestic violence laws, re-institutes the gold standard, eliminates individual income and payroll taxes, and eliminates the central bank.... but I wouldn't recommend holding your breath while waiting for these reforms to get done.
Back to the piece:
... While youth violence has decreased nationally since 2004, Black children represent an overwhelming majority of crime victims and crime perpetrators.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics released in 2008, the homicide rate among Black males ages 10 to 24 is more than double that of Hispanic and White males in the same age group, even though African-Americans are a minority population in the U.S.
The CDC also found that nearly 36 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 had been in physical fights in 2007, while 16.3 percent of male students surveyed said they had fought on school property. But statistics do little to explain why so many Black children are robbing each other of the opportunity to become adults. Some believe the breakdown of the Black family has created a generation of children lacking support at home and positive images of Black men. Others point to social Web sites like Facebook and YouTube as the new hangout for schoolyard bullies and promoters of teen-on-teen violence...
... nationwide, the Black family seems to be imploding.
Grandmothers are often forced to care for the offspring of their drug-addicted children and a sputtering economy has caused parents to spend longer hours on the job.
Even more troubling are the numbers of Black men and women committing to marriage. According to the 2008 Census Bureau Current Population Report, only 43 percent of Black women were married, compared to 79 percent of Asian women and 69 percent of White women. In the media, African-American fathers have been notoriously depicted as non-existent or transient parts of their children’s lives.
Both Conyers Johnese and Ogunronke point to firm parenting as the primary tool to prevent violence in young Black America.
“First and foremost, our children [and] youth need love, support and caring, as simple as that. If this is not in the household it indicates that these parents need assistance and help themselves,” Ogunronke said. “For parents that are struggling to do the right thing in raising their children, they should seek out resources within and outside of their community. They must also be willing to invest time within their hectic schedule to work with their children and those resources that are available and providing such services...”
As I wrote previously,
the law is the lowest level of virtue. While I wholeheartedly agree that children need love, support, resources, and guidance, it also must be noted that all of these things are extremely difficult to provide to the youth if the entire system is set up to generate negative, wealth draining, and harmful outcomes.
Law and public policy is the foundation of a stable and productive society. If a country allows false accusations of rape, false accusations of domestic violence, unilateral divorce, wage slavery via child support obligations, and terrible economic and political policies in other areas, all of these seemingly abstract and separate conditions combine to sap the strength and the will from otherwise well intending individuals. If there is no justice coming from the law courts, the legislators and the executives, there will be no justice in the country. If people support and buy into harmful ideologies such as political feminism, then chaos, poverty, and injustice shall reign. It's a vicious cycle that generates wave after wave of destructive negative feedback loops.
No one should be surprised anymore by any horrendous outcomes our system brings into being.
I'll tell you one thing: unless and until we repeal all of the laws, and deep-six all of the anti-male attitudes that turn men off from marriage, family, and community life, you are going to see more shocking incidents than this.
Instead of trying to reform the political feminist system, they are going to declare open season and destroy as much of the Matriarchy as they can, however they can. How much you wanna bet that the wrong lessons will be learned from this and other harrowing incidents where a caring father and a stable family would have made all the difference?
How much you wanna bet that the violence and reprisals will only get worse, and not better?
Conclusion. Political feminism is a dying movement. The young people know one of the two main reasons why their lives are less than ideal. Fiat money and misguided economic policy is the more hidden source of their problems. The problems that fatherlessness, brought to us by our political feminist friends, creates is more visible, and the children know it.
From the
Washington Post:
Making the Grade Isn't About Race. It's About Parents.
"Why don't you guys study like the kids from Africa?"
In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class -- and was constantly distracting other students when he did -- shot back: "It's because they have fathers who kick their butts and make them study."
Another student angrily challenged me: "You ask the class, just ask how many of us have our fathers living with us." When I did, not one hand went up.
I was stunned. These were good kids; I had grown attached to them over the school year. It hit me that these students, at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, understood what I knew too well: The lack of a father in their lives had undermined their education. The young man who spoke up knew that with a father in his house he probably wouldn't be ending 12 years of school in the bottom 10 percent of his class with a D average. His classmate, normally a sweet young woman with a great sense of humor, must have long harbored resentment at her father's absence to speak out as she did. Both had hit upon an essential difference between the kids who make it in school and those who don't: parents.
More and more people, of all races, are coming to understand that political feminism is their mortal enemy. They will also know that the twin evils of feminist public policy and fiat money, which causes all manner of economic chaos, flows from government, and persons acting in co-operation with government.
When the full enormity of these truths are grasped, maybe they will become
Classical Liberals like me, and demand that the wild beast that is government be confined to its chains.
But until the truth is firmly and concretely understood, the masses might very well continue to blame men, push for more laws, and beef up the failed policies and ideas that have brought us to our current sorry state. We as enlightened men must understand this and stand ready to avoid the inevitable fallout, and be ready to educate the people during the aftermath.
In my case, I will continue to monitor the black American family. Without this venerable institution, my people will continue to struggle, suffer, and die unfulfilled. I will continue to make the case against political feminism until the day comes when it is broadly and publicly rejected.
I still firmly believe that day is coming. There will come a time when the pain that political feminism causes will be to great to be ignored. There will come a time when the rights of men will be respected and upheld by law and by custom, when all other options have failed.
And when that time comes, the black American family will live again. It will reconstitute itself; more rapidly than many might think.
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