Feminism from a Black Male Perspective by Prentice Reid

Feminism from a Black Male Perspective by Prentice Reid

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February 02, 2007

When I began dating I found many black women to be unapproachable. They always had a chip on their shoulder scarcely making an attempt to hide an ingrained hatred of men. With many black women there is no courtship period. After the first or second date I was treated as their possession. I had my car vandalised twice by disgruntled ladies. Yes I was intimate with them. They led me to believe that they were only looking for a casual relationship but when another women came into the picture they treated me like a possession.. I believe there is nothing more terrifying in today's world of feminism than the dominant independent and aggressive black woman. Their image is undeniable in modern America. You see one on the corner talking on her cell phone twisting her neck, rolling her eyes arguing with an invisible enemy. I see them in my psychology class conducting a study with the topic "Do men sleep more in class than women" and jumping at every opportunity to lead a discussion themselves of male bashing. The black feminist movement had it's roots in slavery where black women often times found themselves head of the family due to the father being sold to slave masters elsewhere. She had no choice in most cases but to take on a strong demeanour under constant fear of rape and abuse by aggressive overseers.

This breakdown of family ushered in a matriarchy in which the black man was altogether obsolete. The black man was in many ways emasculated and took on a more submissive role in the family as well as the community. After slavery ended, many black couples formed stable two-parent led households. In the 1890 census for example, two parents headed 80% of African-American families. However by 1970 that figure had plummeted to only 57 percent of black men involved in marriages and only 54 percent of black women, coincidentally only 10 years after the second wave feminism took effect in America. Now 2005's numbers have come out and reflect a rate of only 42% of black men and only 35% for black women.
It doesn't take a genius to find something wrong with that picture. If I were a part of the new world order I would focus the debilitating feminist brainwashing on the group most likely starved for retribution: i.e. the African-American woman. This focused conditioning through mediums such as television, school and behavioral inheritance are leading to the wholesale evisceration of the black family.

Movies such as Tyler Perry's "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" in which his main character Madea a woman in her 60's (whom Perry plays himself) is a gun toting aggressive and controlling thug who wrecks a man's house using a chainsaw and is jailed as a result. Perry has made a small fortune off of these types of "Christian" films and they routinely sell out on opening day in areas with a considerable black population. Many black people applaud these types of films but, given television's ability to warp the subconscious mind, we have to expose them for what they are. An even more sinister idea has been etched into the black woman's, the pandemic of self-hatred. Because if you can get someone to hate themselves then you can get them to superimpose that hatred onto those who most resemble the host organism. The tactics used are the daily bombardment black women recieve of celebrities and popular sex symbols with fake Caucasian style hair, white facial features colored contacts and skin tones that are anything but dark. As a result these women come away with the idea that they must present to the world anything but their natural selves in order to be loved by black men and the world alike. The new world order must be very pleased with the results as black men and women tussle with each other and as our families are shattered. We are broken down into easily controlled solitary units headed by a miserable conduit of self-hatred. Sadly the black woman is searching elsewhere for the love, validation and fulfillment that can only be found through the support and guidance of a man be it father or spouse. We as black men must become more active in the lives of our daughters and put forth an effort to detach them from the television and help reveal to them the true measure of strength and happiness, the formation of a close cohesive family. ---

Prentice Reid, 26, is a married Iraq veteran attending community college in Texas . He welcomes your comments at PREID2@hot.rr.com