Welcome back yall. We’re taking this thesis to the next level. Also, as a reminder, please remember we’re collaborating one of our sub text categories from in the room A working definition of a “conscious” black man.
https://destee.com/threads/a-working-definition-of-a-“conscious”-black-man.91696/
When you have a moment, please go back and check out the groundwork we’ve been laying as we continue the present discussion.
So let’s kinda recap the theme we were considering in ‘A working definition of a “conscious” black man” room.
From the outset of the analysis, we present you, the researcher, with an image. One of the participants (Senegal) also presents powerful images as well (post # 4). The images will be discussed in detail at a later time, or, whenever someone chooses to discuss them at their leisure.
Next, we are speaking about 3 levels of awareness: 1) Insightful 2) Conscious and 3) Enlightened. All elements of the levels should be understood and accepted within "…a general African philosophy." (Senegal ; post # 8). At the present juncture, we have tentatively defined characteristics of only 1 & 2.
On the elements of a black man being conscious, although that mosaic is far from complete, I’mma be bold enough to say so far we all can agree (unless there’s an objection) there’s no way, absolutely none—with no exception— a black man can possibly be conscious if he’s calling our women bchs, bed wenches, hos and sluts.
And we don’t care who you are, right?
Doing so automatically and unequivocally disqualifies a black man from wearing the conscious title.
There are other words which may be included other than those so that list is not exhaustive and for the most part most of us can think of additional nasty words being said but the point being is that overall we kinda get the general idea regarding the forbidden labels as it relates to Black Women which are said by some black men.
To support that premise that you can’t be a conscious black man and call Black Women vitriolic names, we glean either general or specific applicable analysis from our esteem elders--- including a declaration by Dr. Wade Nobles which he says the black polity should be striving for: “High culture, deep thought.”
We are attempting to adopt elements to put us black men on notice that when you call Black Women bchs, hos, bed wenches, sluts and the like, you are hereby now not considered to be “conscious.” No reasonable person should find this behavior acceptable. Because, we are advancing, conscious black men don’t do that against
any Black Woman. This is an easy conclusion to come to because doing so is not only unbelievably reckless but it’s not African and it’s not holistic and it does not comply with the ideas of love and respect for Black Women. We can’t force you to love her…but we should be able to force black men who are fixated on harming our Black Women to respect her, right?
As our attempts to further synthesize the data, our transition then moves to expediency. That is to say, because we seem to agree to not throwing the baby out with the bath water, so to speak, we can understand that there are a number of cases where some brothas are clearly not conscious, but yet they may be able to contribute on occasion some valuable information or even do noble things from time to time. If you’re drowning, do you really care who saves you?
Being non-conscious is not antithetical to doing occasional good deeds. Both can co-exist.
