- Nov 16, 2011
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The reason why I called it a must read is because of the abuse that women are putting their bodies through - feeding the aggressive behavior of men who uses words like 'beat it up'. We live in a violent society where we talking about killing and beating everything up ... Nevertheless, in the article you will find that women are being hurt by these aggressive behaviors and they have conditioned themselves to think that its okay. I know that terms such as 'beat it up' or 'I killed it' are just colloquial phrases but there is a thin line here when it starts to manifest itself in physical ways.
I don't want to beat it up I mean I will play fight with it but to beat it up is something different when there are real physical manifestations. So again the part that I took primarily from the article is that this starting to translate into physical manifestations and our sistas are feeding these physical manifestations by suggestive behaviors. Please note: I feel a woman can do as they please yet at the same time as the saying goes - you keep doing the same things you will get the same results - and if our sistas want to be taken seriously then they have to change this perspective of them as objects of violations.
The bold is where you should pause. We don't live in a 'violent society' where we 'talk about killing and beating everything up.'
If that's your experience, that's your experience, and you should alienate yourself therefrom. But if that's your experience and you silently endorse it then you should recognize where the problem is.
The African experience is multitudinous. A lot of Africans are imprisoned, wrongfully, and come out as violent as Europeans, but this isn't a universal experience and association with violence can be limited.
Advise sisters to stay away from our violent; those whom subscribe to prison/rap culture and those whom view women as property/prostitutes.
But mainly, as a man, you should be advising men away from violence. If you view "our" society as violent then you socialize with violent people--and permit them to be violent or endorse violence around you. The question returns to you is why?
Because, I'm sure that I socialize with violent people. But I never hear any violence. Because around me, we talk about Black liberation or we don't talk at all.
HTP
Edit: You can't imagine how often Brother's talk "Consciousness" with me, then turn around and talk crap among themselves. Our people lower our intelligence ourselves.
How about next time someone says "I want to kill that" you ask "Why in the world would you want to kill that?" and put the fronting man on the spot?