Articles tagged with: Black Men
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J. Manning – A local radio host asked, ‘should affluent black families have a responsibility to move back to the community’. The theory is that educated people will ensure that their schools will properly educate their children; as homeowners, middle-class African Americans will take care of their property, thus raising property taxes. To some extent, it is an inter-racial gentrification of the community where affluent African Americans displace poor African Americans.
It is a valid theory. But while it ask middle class blacks to embrace responsibility for the development of impoverished …
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Whenever the discussion about the state of black men comes up, inevitably someone will toss in the cliché about overcoming racism, poverty or the ‘victim mentality’. It is a valid discussion but it does not get to the meat of the issue and that is the despair, hopelessness and low self-esteem that plague man young black males. The only way to overcome this is to inspire young brothers to build self-worth. People are not responsible for things they do not value. So personal responsibility is a mute point to someone that does not value their person or the people around them.
