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05-26-06 EUR FEEDBACK: 'Brother James, where is your article about how we black men demoralize ourselves?'
*Tracie B. Dickson, Washington, DC:
"Whoa! I support you, Mr. Darryl James (05-25-06 EUR Feedback). Thanks for your balanced discussions on gender issues. -- Mrs. D, Chocolate City."
*C Fain (no city given):
"Darryl, I just want to know, do you experience an orgasm every time you type the word 'feminazi?' You say it with such passion; I just want to know if I should use it too? Is that term supposed to be insulting? Some woman must have really broke your heart. LOL."
*Michael Woodard, Yonkers, NY:
"Brother James, where is your article about how we black men demoralize ourselves? Where is your article to voice disdain for black men such as Bishop Don Juan and the other visible brothers that have provided an international stage for his buffoonery and degradation of the black male image. Where is your article about the apparent embrace of thug life and pimpdom lifestyles by our young men?
Now that we've finally figured the white man could give two cents about our crying game of blame. Some of us have decided to direct their angst towards the only group of people who have ever supported us unconditionally: black women. I'm pretty sure there are quite a few of us who know of a mother or grandmother who mortgaged their home to bail their derelict sons and grandsons out of jail.
Where is your article on the state of black men and why many of our youth are viewing a prison sentence as more interesting and aspiring than obtaining a college degree or some type of marketable skill? Is that our sisters fault? Or is it our fault for promoting and accepting such rhetoric as being 'real?' Where are the men? How are feminazi's as you call it our problem. Have you ever taken a class on feminism or read a book about it? If you had, then you would know that feminism has about as much to do with men as the Black Power Movement had to do with white people. It's more about strengthening, preserving, educating and getting oneself together first and foremost, THEN addressing the outer world.
You wouldn't build a house on a shaky foundation would you? So why do you think dumping on black women are going to solve our problems? I don't know about you and where you came from. But me and my 2 brothers were raised by a wonderful black woman who would gladly sport your feminazi terminology. If being a feminazi meant making sure food was on the table, she was that. If it meant making sure we had clothing, she was that. If it meant not allowing any kind of man into her house and heart, she was that. If that meant not taking sh!t from anybody, be it black men, white men, even her children when we tried to test her patience, she was that.
Bruh, I hope you will someday realize that finger-pointing is useless and serves no purpose. Quite frankly, I think you're out of line on this one. We're falling behind in dayumn near every category and I don't see black women as the reason for that. We are our own nemesis, and until we get the courage to look each other and ourselves in the eye and say enough is enough, we're going to find ourselves with nobody but ourselves crying like babies because we effed up. But only realized it too late.
Signed, You can, but I ain't going out like that."
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