In a perfect world, young black males and young black females should be able to look towards black men who know certain things so they can be put on to information thar can help them. In the op, the Twitter post turned into something else because the conversation wasn’t a cut and dry should black men help the youth.
There was also some conversations about the quality of men women decide to have children with. Which brought about men being against mentoring children, which is understandable. It’s only so much I can help a child, if her mom is increasing the chances for him to fail. What you start to see more and more in the black Twittersphere, is how much BW have contempt for BM and how the different conversations clash. You can’t tell BM you don’t need them and stress independence, but then when you realize you need them, you have an arrogance and flippant attitude towards them helping you. Many of these conversations fall apart because women want the men they don’t want to be left with the burden of helping to raise children with women who are basically aiming to strip a level of autonomy from them.
Rec centers are nice. Clothing drives are nice. However we need a much stronger emphasis on family. Why you laying down with men who aren’t going to be suitable fathers?
Again these convos go nowhere because it’s a two way street discussion being held down a one way, and it’s usually a dead end. Mentorship isn’t the fix. Men been mentors. Men been doing it.
If you talk a kid out of fighting? If you see a kid about to rob someone and you slide them some advice? If you give a kid some money so he can get home and get some food? You think BM don’t do it? Again we have one sided talks and once we can have an honest conversation, we can move forward
