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Topic subjectRE: There's valid critiques to be made about black men.
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13404618, RE: There's valid critiques to be made about black men.
Posted by CIPHA, Wed Sep-23-20 12:16 PM
>Adopting anti black rhetoric regarding black womens bodies
>and hair

This is a lie, black men love black women's bodies and hair, as they naturally occur, and this sentiment is only brought up when we criticize black women attempting to become more eurocentric in their look. And somehow that's anti-black?

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>Colorism

Black women are just as colorist and black men get criticized regardless of whether we praise light-skinned black women or dark-skinned black women (see Dr. Umar for example).

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>Capitalist politics

Black men are criticized for engaging in the capitalist political system but then when we suggest divesting from that system for the betterment of all black people then we get criticized for sabotaging our political standing (see Tariq Nasheed, Ice Cube, Cornell West).

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>Homophobia
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Black men are less homophobic than black women, and any other group for that matter, and most of the homophobic/transphobic violence yall cite is committed by other members of the lgbt community. Also, ain't nobody scared of gay people so "homophobia" as a concept is an overblown misnomer designed to propagate harm towards black men, but that's a different conversation.

>domestic violence rates are pretty insane

Nobody deserves to be the victim of intimate partner violence, especially women, but the methadology of compiing these types of statistics leaves a lot to be desired and there are plenty of black male victims of intimate partner violence that either goes unreported or is reported against the males once the cops show up.

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>Oftentimes black men choose their masculinity over their
>blackness because thats the only social capital they have.
>(masculinity being greed, violence, emotional immaturity)

I don't even know how to respond to this.

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>These are valid reasons to be angry at black men, and i think
>that anger gets warped into something else, especially when
>you have an online community hyping up your darkest thoughts.
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>There's a major shift going on in gender relations and the
>more you cling to this binary idea of victimhood (black men
>are oppressed, therefore aren't capable of being oppressive)
>the more you'll focus on the outliers of black women that are
>being extreme instead of really understanding where they're
>coming from.
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