Black Men Listen: Targeting Ages 18 – 39

The
beautiful
wife.

We’re on the cliff’s edge. Our way off the edge is to emulate African American women’s playbook. Highly educated African American women tend to mitigate the things that diminish their intellectual and financial strengths. Over the last few decades, the media and government have made a concerted effort to establish Black women as the heads of household for the Black race.

Although Black women are often the breadwinners for Black families, what also feeds into that scenario is the absence of Black men who may not be a part of the existing family structure. It essentially equates to Black women being single mothers and Black men not being there to complete the traditional family loop. Needless to say, the media and government don’t mind emasculating Black men whenever the opportunity presents itself. Aggressively labeling Black women as the heads of households also undermines the traditional Black family structure—as well as the mental building blocks that are needed to sustain it. It’s time for the whole spectrum of Black culture to break out the capes and get the traditional family back in order again.