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The hands that rock the cradle really control civilization, it has been noted in so many contexts. How then shall we ignore the impact dysfunctional mothering by women of low self-esteem and/or intellect will have on the many children under their inadequate care? It's also been said that a nation or a people can rise no higher than its women can. This could be the missing part of the equation as to why we fail to rise as a people.

Have we frankly looked at the awesome influence of women and how children are being raised? We know things are wrong but we refuse to address the underlying problem. The evolving Culture of Death, where our young are embracing a pessimistic, fatalistic and death-oriented outlook, while adopting an uncaring disrespectful outlook towards their elders, who in times past would show them the path to a better future, is achieving transgenerational status.

This is because the First Teachers that are dysfunctional, are passing on bad attitudes and ways that doom the next generation to something much worse than the Culture of Poverty, and could sound a death-knell for too many of our communities.

In California, there was a case in the mid 1990s of a mother who was charged with contributing to the delinquency of her minor sons and nephews through her endorsement of the gang-banger lifestyle. A female banger hanger-on in her youth, now adult, she nevertheless could only teach what she knew. She allowed her sons and their friends, in the gangs, to use her home as a base. There were photographs where the youngsters proudly showed their gangland tattoos as they mugged for the camera in their tank tops and muscle shirts. When there was a birthday she ordered a cake, replete with decorations in gang symbols -- the tridents, top-hats stars, and other non-familiar symbols to many urban citizens, as the graffiti on many light surfaces.

We tend to forget that when these same children grow out of their teens, too many won't grow out of the Culture of Death that they've been sucked into, or ran to with open arms in many cases as some sort of exotic lifestyle, just on the edge of danger. (This is the reason most rap music is purchased by White teenagers, as they sit safe in their suburban homes from the progenitors of the music, and groove to the likes of Eminem of Detroit, the latest Great White Hype, and a sort of modern day Elvis Presley).

During the Culture of Poverty series two years ago, we discussed the breakdown in thought patterns because there was not a firm psychological base, nor sustained logical thought, insulated as they were from reality by a cocoon of excuses from school systems, community based agencies, and other well-meaning do-gooders, as well as Poverty Pimps and Poverticians who pandered to political parties, (although those in the Culture of Poverty largely do not vote, and certainly not those in the Culture of Death).

The breakdown of insightful cultural values are pronounced in the women who typify the Culture of Death. The hypocrisy of their philosophy and actions are at variance with their stated beliefs.

They see only what they want to see, and reaching this group is hard, as those in the social services arena will tell you. As a community, we only see what we want to see and hear too often as do those in these dysfunctional cultures.

Although they like to parade as if they are the height of strong femininity, these women are as subservient as any Geisha or Comfort Woman. On the street, if a car containing ogling males honks at them, some will actually stop and conversate, even get inside for a ride if they like the car and the males appeal to their skewered value system.

Believing themselves to be good judges of character, many of these girls find themselves caught up in situations of pregnancy, drug/thug life, rape, pornography, shake dancing at clubs in the multi-city circuit. The luckiest only end up disappointed and broken hearted, with the familiar refrain "All Men are Dogs" to explain away her dumb choice and lack of knowledge of what constitutes a good man.

It has long been a shibboleth to remark upon the obvious dysfunctions of many of today's modern North American Black women. They have believed the hype fed to them by an enabling media that feeds into their shattered self-esteem. This unrealistic belief, at variance with the facts, has retarded the development of the African Descended in North America, and has continued to fuel the Culture of Poverty and its devolution into the Culture of Death that is taking its toll on many of our communities.......

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Just my opinio, for every single woman that has a child, there is a male who helped create it. While true, the mentality of the kid suffers, the physcal needs of being fed, clothed, educated (even though questionable) taken to the doctor when sick etc., are usually supplied in someway even if it's not the best. Where is the father to supply even one of these needs?

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I'm having trouble seeing the point of this article.
it offers no solution and does not tie the problem into the larger context.
it's just a bash of black females.
how does that help?

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jamesfrmphilly said:

I'm having trouble seeing the point of this article.
it offers no solution and does not tie the problem into the larger context.
it's just a bash of black females.
how does that help?

I agree. I wasn't sure, but what I got from it was that it was blaming women for the downfall of the culture. Is that the authors intent Panafrica?

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Wisdom7 said:

I agree. I wasn't sure, but what I got from it was that it was blaming women for the downfall of the culture. Is that the authors intent Panafrica?

Only the author can tell his intent (I'm not the author); however, many journalist only detail problems or occurances with no intention of presenting a solution. That would appear to be the case with this article.

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