February 2012
37 posts
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A
(via theangryblackwoman)
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Stereotypes of the Black Male and Unconscious...
”The ‘thug’ image that many rappers work so hard to project is nothing less than an updated version of the ‘buck’ character depicted in Birth of a Nation: a fearsome and hypersexualized black male. Rap performers are profiting from their music, but as bell hooks reported, when young black males “labor in the plantations of misogyny and sexism to produce...
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Willie Lynch Theory
“In my bag here, I have a fool proof method for controlling your black slaves, I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly will control the slaves for at least 300 hundred years. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it…
Don’t forget you must pitch the old Black male vs. the young Black male, and the young Black male against the old...
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The Black Man's "Cool"
A pride, an arrogance even, that is at once laid back,unconcerned,perceived to be highly sexual and potentially violent.” This definition of black male cool rearticulates the way unenlightened white male hipsters read black masculinity. It is a fake stereotyped notion of cool, that denies the history of the “real cool,” which was not about disassociation, hardheartedness, and violence, but rather...
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The Black Male Need to Fuck
“Embracing patriarchal notions of manhood, black males thought of sex as informed first and foremost by male desire.In his essay “Patriarchal Sex” Robert Jensen explains: “Sex is fucking. In patriarchy, there is an imperative to fuck—in rape and in ‘normal’ sex, with strangers and girlfriends and wives and estranged wives and child. What matters in patriarchal sex is the male need to fuck....
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“Seen as animals, brutes, natural born rapists, and murderers, black men have had...”
– Bell Hooks, We’re Real Cool, p.11
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The Black Patriarch during the Black Power...
Excerpt for Living the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980
During the height of the black nationalist rhetoric, in film such as Sweetback’s Baadassss Song (1971) and Shaft (1971), black male heroes illustrated the establishment of a new black male patriarchy in line with masculinist Black Power rhetoric. Black women, whether as love interests or prostitutes, were merely a...
“Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.”
– Nina Simone (via fuckingsocietyraw)
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"The Cult of Black Masculinity"
”The emphasis placed on male sexual activity poses a direct problem for Black men when approaching and entering into love relationships mainly because the “cult of masculinity” teaches men that manhood is first and foremost about “fucking”, or more specifically, penetration and conquest, but not necessarily about responsibility to nation and family.”
-Danielle M. Wallace, “It’s a...
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Hypersexual Imaging of Black Masculinity Effect on...
The interest in Black sex and sexuality is reflected in the mainstream American media,which consistently hypersexualizes African American people (Collins, 2004). The emphasis on hypersexualization coupled with the sexual basis for what it means to be a man reinforces the idea that Black men are and should be that much more sexual and sexually active. Black boys are taught that as men, they...
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Black Masculinity and Sexuality
“There is a definitive link between masculinity and sexuality in American society. A boy becomes a man with the completion of his first sexual act and the loss of his virginity. Then, and only then is he a “real man”. “Real Men” are those males that are virile as well as sexually active and experienced. Consequently, for young Black men, the idea of what it means to be a man tends to focus...
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“Men have got to develop some heart and some sound analysis to realize that when...”
– Toni Cade Bambara (1970)
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“Many black men who are gay hide their sexual orientation, preferring to pass as...”
– Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics (173)
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“Within a universe of Black masculinity, gay Black men pose a threat to a...”
– Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics (174)
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Black Gay Men, The "Down Low", & Black Male...
“Just as same sex loving is detached from black female sexuality, a queer identity is similarly not associated with black male sexuality. Black masculinity is forever measuring itself against that of the white male. Due to the historic imbalance caused by racism any form of sexuality that is deemed “socially deviant” is actively denied. This has given rise to living a life on the “down low”....
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Hypersexualization of Black Women
“The virgin/whore dichotomy is continually reified through the lens of race wherein white women exist with the construction of purity and the black female is reduced to the ever wanton Jezebel. This construction has its foundation in slavery. It was meant to justify the repeated rape of black women by their white male slave owners.
Though we have long since moved beyond slavery as a...
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Invisibility of Lesbians within the Black...
“Lesbian love is delegitimized because it does not actively serve patriarchy; and therefore its erasure is not only a slight on black women, but on all women that identify as lesbian. Queer culture is very much a part of the black community, but when sexuality is controlled by outside forces instead of individually, certain identities become invisible if it is deemed that their existence...
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Hypersexualization of Black Men
“The model held for the black male is quite similar to the black female. It once again finds it origins in slavery; wherein the black male was constructed as the sexually aggressive savage to promote distrust between black men and white women. In this way white men are assured their place at the top of the race and gender hierarchy, while constructing themselves as the saviour of white women...
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“To be an American Negro male, is also to be a kind of walking phallic symbol....”
– James Baldwin, The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy
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“Besides being characterized as aggressive, angry, and prone to violence one of...”
– Athena D. Mutua, in Progressive Black Masculinities, “Welcome to Terrordome,” 97
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“Once upon a time black male “cool” was defined by the ways in which black men...”
– ― bell hooks, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
6 Steps To Contentment →
thelittlesea:
Contentment does exist, of course. It is one of the primary characteristics of our own true nature. It is one of the greatest blessings that life has to offer. But like anything truly worthwhile, it has a price.
1. Be willing to forgive.
How can we be content if we carry frozen in our heart — like an iceberg in the Arctic — the raw pain of past injustice? How can we be contented...
“I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is...”
– Osho (via soaringaboveitall)
