As a conscious man in a not so conscious environment I tend to see what's hidden or certain things most or even I sometimes look past. History to some is just another class they have to pass to advance forward but real history is a great teacher, and when you don't know history it's doomed to repeat itself. As an 80s baby growing up in the small town of Roosevelt New York I witnessed first hand what the crack epidemic did to black families in particular. Fathers were either victims of the prison system, strung out on drugs or just not on the same page with their partners. There were certain families that made it through those tumultuous times but they were clearly in the minority. It honestly takes a man and a woman to raise a child wether it's a male or female because it takes the combination of the masculine principle(from the father) and the feminine principle(from the mother) to create life. The black family like many black liberation movements has been systematically destroyed and the casualties of the war are the kids who have grown up with no real model of what a family is or how one operates. The state is now the father and you know this because they will not give benefits if the father is in the home. That is the bait many of our women have fallen for and now we have a generation of children raised with a major imbalance.
The feminine principle is there but the masculine principle isn't and since we are a combination of these two principles they're serious issues lingering in these children. Boys in particular have taken a serious hit because the lack of a male presence has rendered them increasingly emotional in there thinking. The man isn't there to apply logic to these boys and this results in the random acts of violence that occur daily across the nation. Emotions can get the best of you especially when you weren't taught how to control them. This generation of children are now being raised by the casualties of the war on the black family and now our own people look down on these children as if they did this to themselves. "Pull up your pants" or you need "Jesus in your life" is a common response I hear but how about he needs a "father"in his life. Didn't this so called "Jesus" have a father named "Joseph?" As a matter of fact he had 2! Now we have adults who were raised in broken homes saying things like "I don't know what's wrong with this generation" but the answer is most of them are to blame. Babies learn from their parent(s) before they go off to school and the school system is another problem with the paradigm we are living in. Everything is set up to keep the child and parent away from each other for long periods of time throughout the day and this leads to the parent(s) becoming less of an authoritative figure. The results are devastating or even deadly because boys with no father are at a disadvantage when it comes to balance. Another thing I noticed with boys without a father or father figure in there home is many of the kids are out of shape. My father wasn't around for my entire childhood but when he was around he taught us valuable lessons about physical fitness. He taught my brothers and I the importance of stretching, sit-ups, push ups and pull-ups and he did this by showing us young. We must understand that boys look to their fathers as superheroes and will emulate everything he does through repetition.
I watch my good friends 2 year old son mimic what his father does and on the flip side I see the difference in my two year old nephew who's father is virtually never around. Now imagine when they're both grown men and issues coming up. My friends son having both parents may think the situation out logically and respond to the situation accordingly but my nephew may just react to the situation without using logic. People must understand that there is a difference between responding and reacting and most of these boys in these broken neighborhoods coming from broken families are just reacting and this leads to the senseless killings we see in cities such as Chicago. You can't just blame them because you and I know they didn't raise themselves and never asked to be here. You should look at these boys as victims as opposed to brainless thugs. They need us to set the examples and this starts in the home. I challenge brothers including myself to engage in dialogue with that young man that has no business hanging out on the corner, feeling the world is against him so it's doe or die. Engage him in a non-judgmental way and I guarantee you'll find these young black boys are some of the most intelligent beings you come across. Never judge a book by its cover because if we do we'll stroll past the next Malcolm Little (X) or Marcus Garvey without giving them a fair chance.Love and Light
