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Black Kings without Kingdom (1)

https://youtu.be/NWQx0S4vMacA King is a male ruler of a country, state, or territory (i.e., a kingdom) that typically inherits the throne by right of birth. These men are molded to become centered leaders with integrity and a goal of building a rich legacy for their sons to ultimately expand upon. A king rules people that respect and even worship them. Most Kings inspire their people by uplifting and encouraging fertility, spirituality and creativity. A Kang, on the other hand, rules a kangdom, which typically consists of trap houses and street corners they push their drugs and gun sales on. These men don’t obtain inheritances because their worthless fathers didn’t possess anything to leave them prior to abandoning them and their mothers. Unlike Kings, Kangs aren’t taught about manhood, leadership, protecting or providing to build strong people around them. Instead, they are bred to destroy all people around them, annihilating whole generations through violence and murders. Kangs acquire the skills and behaviors necessary for access to the penitentiary and graveyards, which is why in most cases they represent the most inmates in America’s prison systems.Kings build kingdoms, for instance, the first kingdom in the world was the Kingdom of Cush, which was situated in Nubia—southern Egypt and northern Sudan. The rulers of this kingdom were black-skinned Africans, that founded the world’s first city called Axum in the country named Aethiopia, which was the first established country on earth. The city of Napata was the first capital of the Cushite kings located in Sudan beyond the third cataract of the Nile River. Drusilla Dunjee Houstons wrote a book called, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, where she details the accomplishments of the Kings that ruled Cush, stating:…the central seat of Ethiopia was a kingdom called Meroe—one of the most powerful cities and metropolis in the ancient world. The first men of the ancient world were referred to as “Men of Meru.” These great rulers of Ethiopia were the architectural giants of the past. They were first to build empires and pyramids, erect stupendous edifices, excavate long subterranean passages in the living rock, and form vast lakes that extended over the follows of adjoining mountains and arches for aqueducts and bridges. The ruling class founded the powerful priest caste including judges, physicians, astrologers, architects, and more. These priests united within themselves all the highest culture and the most distinguished offices of the land. They were of such significance that they were deified at death.The first laws, prisons, commerce, knowledge of working metals, fine arts, science, alphabetical writing, astronomy, history, mathematics, chronology, architecture, plastic art, sculpture, navigation, agriculture, and textile industries were established by the Cushites of Ethiopia.Ethiopia is an ancient classical land. In the olden days its inhabitants were considered the most devout and oldest of mankind. It was the Ethiopian Cushites who were the fountainhead of civilization. From these people arose the oldest traditions and rites and sprang the first colonies and arts of antiquity. The only kingdoms that Kangs have built were those for the white men that subjugated them. Kangs founded nothing except layers of turmoil and dysfunction in black communities. These men are plagued by narcissism and delusion, believing that possessing nothing is synonymous to having everything. Kangs reject their poor decision making, blaming their plight on everyone and everything but themselves, refusing to take accountability for anything. In several cases, married Kangs force their wives to be the primary breadwinner, providing all the materials necessary for sustenance, while they comfortably watch the women struggle. Instead of forming partnerships, where they contribute at least equally to the family, Kangs will put all the responsibilities on their wives, including paying the bills, raising the children, cooking, cleaning, and giving them all the sex they desire. A Kang’s woman is to do whatever he demands of her, even if his dictations aren’t realistically achievable. He mandates that his woman carry the world solely on her back and when she does he becomes jealous because her abilities make him feel inadequate. Consequently, a Kang will project his self-hatred onto the woman in hopes of destroying her morale, confidence and self-esteem; unfortunately, in most cases he succeeds. Kangs view treating women with kindness and gentleness as weakness, and believe that only real men abuse, misuse and confuse the women they supposedly love. Kings protect their Queens and concubines, providing them with all the necessities to live a royal and fulfilled life. However, although most Kangs avoid marriage, some have wives that they possess no loyalty to, habitually cheating with various side chicks. If they aren’t married, many of them have multiple women that aren’t cognizant of each other. These Kangs spread diseases and breed children with the women, having 2 or more children with each woman. They avoid marriage and support, while proclaiming it’s the women’s fault for going through with the pregnancies.All the women in a King’s life are aware of each other and understand their role in the kingdom. Concubines know their place and never attempt to compete with Queens. However, a Kang will have his side chick believing she’s more important than his wife, providing her with all the luxuries that a King would give to his Queen. A King has enough wealth to support his entire family, including the concubines and their children, allowing the women to dedicate themselves to their personal goals, children and family. However, a Kang has bitches and hoes that he can’t afford because he possesses no money and uses his wife’s or main woman’s income and materials to entertain side chicks. He’ll drive his woman’s car to chauffeur other women around or bring women to the house his woman supports. He has no dignity and love taking risks, despite not having any backup plans in case he gets caught and loses his support system. Kangs will continue this degeneracy until the side chicks leave or have his children, and in this case, he’ll then abandon them all. Although both Kings and Kangs are patriarchal, Kangs are sexist oppressors that don’t respect women, especially those that are independent, and treat them as objects to be possessed. These homosocial men have more love and respect for other men than the women they’re with. Kangs view women as worthless chattel property whose sole purpose on Earth is to stay sweet, obey, pray, and serve them at will.Unlike Kings who bear as many children as they please to build their empires, Kangs breed and abandon children to ultimately build empires for funeral homes and prisons. Kangs encourage young boys to be uneducated degenerates who view manhood as wreaking havoc and creating utter chaos in the environments they frequent. They form broken territories of unorganized gangs filled with abandoned and rejected black boys and men with a mentality of scarcity, moral corruption, and indignancy. The older Kangs in gangs are mentally ill spirits of depravity that take advantage of young black boys, convincing them to commit crimes they’re too weak and pathetic to do themselves. On the other hand, a King would take his young black warriors and train them to control and operate the kingdom’s military. But instead of Kangs building structured militaries to protect their kangdoms and the people in it with the young boys they exploit, they put them in positions where they end up dead or in prison as young as 12 years old. At this age, Kings would have had their boys highly educated, centered, decisive and essentially prepared to take over thrones—not the prison wards.Many Kangs are pimps or traffickers that exploit their women for monetary gain, whereas Kings possess dignity and would behead a man for looking at their women, let alone paying to sex them. Other Kangs, such as the Passport Bros, exploit women by participating in sex tourism for attention. These men believe that travelling across seas to entertain women for sex under the guise of love isn’t exploitation because the women choose to do it. They fail to recognize that the reasons these women prostitute themselves are because they lack other opportunities and men have created an industry to profit from sexually exploiting them.There are several celebrity Kangs that thirst for women packaged in whiteness. These women could have slept with every man in Hollywood or be gold-digging femme fatales, but because she has white skin, she’s suitable. Tyrese is notorious for marrying and dating women with white skin that he claims abuse and use him for financial gain. He then goes on tirades against his preference once things don’t go his way.Tyrese makes 2 million dollars annually and yet is complaining because he’s being required to pay $636K for child support and his ex's lawyer. That’s less than 5% of his income, and now he’s calling on civil rights leaders to help him get out of his responsibilities. This man is the epitome of a Kang. He won’t admit how dysfunctional and narcissistic he is, especially during his marriage and other relationships, which caused these women to take whatever they could and get the hell out of dodge.This woman isn’t saying anything new. Most women are familiar with the ridiculous behaviors of Kangs, regardless of their net worth. Although Tyrese had his wealth prior to marrying his ex, most Kangs will build their means with their wives and once they’ve achieved success, they divorce them, attempting to keep all the resources to themselves. What’s worse is that other Kangs support this treachery.Overall, black Kangs are mentally ill, disenfranchised, inferior broken men that, unlike Kings, refuse to get themselves out of subjugation. These men have declared war on black women and children, while imitating their white oppressors. Kangs are the “if you can’t be them, join them” black men. Therefore, because they couldn’t prevent themselves from being colonized, they hate themselves. They went from being the most powerful Kings on Earth to begging for handouts from genetically inferior men. And when white men provide black women with funds to build themselves, Kangs protest because in their entitled minds, everything should be given to them. They don’t even consider how humiliating it is that another group of men have to provide for their women. Instead, they bitch and moan about other men not giving them handouts. As many black billionaire Kangs that exist in this country, it doesn’t make sense that non-black men have to provide to black women. However, when men have no dignity, women have to fend for themselves.Kangs are weak tyrants, forcing black women to be Kings for the community. While Kangs are falling further and further behind in society, black women are healing and uniting to change their inferior status and annihilated reputation of grace. Consequently, black men are jealous, and losing even more control of their patriarchal white imitation as they’re fighting against the only women that, sadly, battle for them. Unfortunately, most black women worship black Kangs, not realizing these men are dangerously broken and need mental facilitation to help them cope with being subjugated. There’s nothing black women can do to help these men but continue to be door mats so that these Kangs can feel like the men that they are not. Cynthia G said it best, “You cannot be a King with no kingdom”. BOOK REFERENCE Drusilla Dunjee Houston Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire Click to Purchase Book

Sexual Health, Sexual Irresponsibility

According to the CDC, most sexual irresponsibility in the black community results in health disparities including the occurrence of new cases, number of people impacted, death caused by disease, and changes in the body that leads to disease or other health problems. Health disparities are typically contingent on “gender, age, race or ethnicity, education, income, social class, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation”. Statistics shows that black men lead in reported cases of HIV, viral hepatitis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and tuberculosis, especially compared to white men. On the other hand, black women are more susceptible to those same diseases than white women, specifically between the ages of 15-24. For instance, black people only make up 13.7% of the population but in 2018, they represented 42% of HIV cases in the country. Of those cases, 31% were black men—mostly homosexual, and 11% were black women. Furthermore, black women between the ages of 15-24 were 5 times more likely to contract chlamydia than white women. But black men were 6.8 times more susceptible to acquiring the disease than white men between the same age range. In 2018, black people were 7.7 times more likely to get gonorrhea than whites. And of all the cases of primary and secondary syphilis, 34.7% of the reported cases were for black people—4.7 times the rate among whites. The CDC states that “from 2014 to 2018, the rate of reported congenital syphilis increased 126.7% among Blacks,” at a rate of 6.4 times that of whites. Of 1,649 people that died from viral hepatitis, 18.4% were blacks. Finally, black people represented 20% of all tuberculosis cases, being “eight times higher than the rate of TB disease in non-Hispanic whites”. Sexual irresponsibility essential includes: • Unprotected sex (especially with multiple partners) • Sexual activity at a young age • Sleeping with high-risk partners (i.e., drug users or promiscuous individuals) • Prostitution • Incest • Pedophilia • Rape/MolestationData shows that most black people that suffer from health disparities are either low-income, unemployed, uneducated, and/or many times homosexual. In numerous cases, sexually irresponsible people may possess poor self-esteem, have been sexually abused at some point in their lives, encounter social pressures, drug addicted, and/or lack love and support from family and their community. However, sexually irresponsibility amongst black people hadn’t always existed. Prior to the slave trade, black people possessed a moral compass that they carried over from Africa. It wasn’t until their identities were replaced with those given by white society during slavery, did they begin to perpetrate irresponsible sexual behavior. In the beginning of chattel slavery, black men outnumbered black women, making it difficult for them to find sex partners. Frazier Franklin tells us in his book, Negro Family in the United States that:“Those who cannot obtain women (for there is a great disproportion between the numbers of the two sexes) traverse the woods in search of adventures, and often encounter…patrol of whites, who tie them up and flog them, and then send them home.” The casualness of the contacts, when the slaves succeeded in finding women, prevented the development of strong attachments, which result from prolonged association between the sexes. On most plantations, where there was no lack of women, mating ranged from purely physical contacts, often enforced by the masters, to permanent associations, in which genuine sentiment between the spouses and parental affection for children created a real family group. There were masters who, without any regard for the preferences of their slaves, mated their human chattel as they did their stock.Since slavery, black men have been trained by white men to mate and breed without forming any attachment to the chosen women. The lack of women caused many slaves to mate with any woman they came into contact with. Casual sex became a necessity to these men as they were unable to court women or spend enough time with them to form a bond. Furthermore, once many men and women married or became emotional attached to one another, they were sold or separated, permanently ending their union. There have been several cases where the slave master would then force the female or male slaves into promiscuity. It wasn’t until 1840 when black male and female slaves were equal in numbers, allowing more stable unions to form. But even then, some plantations still lacked black female slaves, and this caused many men to constantly sneak off their plantation to those where women resided. To prevent these men from leaving the plantation in search of female mates, slave masters would offer them white female indentured servants on the plantation, hence promoting interracial relationships. Unions between black men and white women persisted for centuries during the slave era before it became outlawed. After the Civil War ended in 1865 and slaves were officially emancipated, there were no systems, programs or institutions in place to help them transition to citizens of the United States. This is because in all actuality they weren’t considered citizens by whites and had only been freed for economic reasons oppose to whites acquiring a moral compass. During the Reconstruction era between 1863-1877, whites were doing everything in their power to establish a revised form of slavery. The southern economy had been shattered once the slaves were freed, therefore they needed new ways to not only keep blacks as the inferior class, but also to compensate for loss wealth. One way they accomplished this was by preventing blacks from gaining employment, education, and proper housing. Consequently, black people struggled severely to survive, and this had dire consequences to the behavior of the masses.Many black men and women migrated from farms, lumber and turpentine camps into towns and cities in the North and South. These homeless people maintained “free sex” in these camps and cities, hooking up randomly with each other, and in many cases forming no real attachment. E. Frazier Franklin tells us:These camps offer greater anonymity and freedom from social control than the small towns. They bring men and women from the farms in contact with men and women who have already had some experience in the outside world. Often some black troubadour meets a simple girl in the town and lures her with his romantic tales and strange words of love to take up her abode with him in the camp… Since these couples are drawn together by spontaneous attraction, in which physical desire usually predominates, their association is characterized by impulsive behavior. Quarreling and fighting as the result of outbursts of jealousy or slight irritations occur periodically…Often, when the woman finds her lover unstable in his affection or the man discovers, in the language of this world, someone else in his “stall,” the result is a stabbing or murder. Sexually transmitted diseases were rampant during those times as casual sex was prevalent and there was a lack of sex education. Because of unprotected sex, both men and women contracted syphilis at alarming rates. In many cases the disease would go untreated, causing blindness, brain damage and several other bodily ailments. Homosexuals suffered significantly from sexually transmitted diseases as they participated in random unprotected sex with multiple men. After emancipation of the slaves, southern white men were comfortably open about their sexuality and lust for black men. Therefore, there was a large population of gay black and white men that spread diseases not only to each other, but also to women they may have slept with.Several newly freed slaves simply wandered about the country, seeking employment, housing, food and other resources for sustenance. Some settled in the rural areas, establishing families and a structured way of living. Men that were able to provide and protect their families remained the leading figure in the household. However, those that couldn’t were completely unstable, drifting aimlessly between the North and South. While living a nomadic life, they detached from the morality they once possessed during their enslavement and operated based on physical attractions. A multitude of these individuals cut all ties with family to seek work in different places. In doing so, men would meet women, make babies and desert them, going on with their lives. The black men that settled with women and children, were so “hardened by their wandering life” that they would be mean and abusive to their families. And sometimes, they’d eventually abandon them altogether, leaving the women to fend for themselves and their children. While on the road, some of these black men would meet disloyal women from the city, causing them to return to the family they’d left behind. Lonely black women became prey for the wandering black man. He’d show them affection while gaining their sympathy for his hardships. As a result, women would provide him with food, shelter and sex, in hopes of keeping him around. Unfortunately, however, many times once the man had his fill he’d abandon the women, hitting the road again, off to new adventures. These types of men had no emotional or romantic attachment to the women because they were never taught to love anyone, not even themselves. They barely maintained a steady income, had no shelter and didn’t know when their next meal was coming. Therefore, when they’d mate and make children, fatherhood wasn’t an option since they couldn’t even take care of themselves. In some cases, a man’s parents may have died when he was young, forcing him to fend for himself. Consequently, he became self-centered, solely aiming for his own survival, even at the expense of his own children. Other times, these men were born to wandering mothers that neither maintained a relationship with their fathers nor acquired structure and stability. This prevented the young boys from developing a mindset that promoted security and stability for others, and therefore, women and children were merely people to be dealt with for the moment and no commitment was necessary. Many black women, on the other hand, were desperate for love and stability. They’d meet a man, have several children by him with no desire to get married. Eventually, the man would abandon them all, and she’d meet another man, have several more children, only for the new man to ultimately leave as well. This cycle of childbearing and abandonment by multiple men appeared to have been a regular occurrence amongst black women.At times it was extremely difficult for black women to find work. Some would seek employment with black mega churches, only to be overlooked and ignored. Many black women lived in dilapidated shanty homes, had no income, and on average between 2-10 children to support. Frazier Franklin describes a study conducted of single black mothers and the number of children they had:Of the 379 unmarried Negro mothers studied by Dr. Reed, 47 had had two children; 10 three children; 8 four children; and 4 as many as seven or more. In our study of 300 unmarried mothers in Chicago the case records revealed that bout 13 percent of them had had more than one child. That more unmarried mothers do not have several illegitimate children is hardly due to their reformation but to the fact that they acquire knowledge about birth control and abortions. Nor should it be overlooked that venereal diseases play some part in preventing conception. It was very common for black women to prefer to raise their children on their own, without the assistance from the fathers of the children. Despite living in deplorable conditions due to lack of income and employment, these women had no qualms with making illegitimate children with no intentions on co-parenting or getting married to the fathers. Several women claimed that black men were so abusive and lazy that marriage would be burdensome as they’d have to deal with his harshness and fend for the entire family. Frazier Franklin tells the story of one single black mother with multiple children and an utter disregard for their father, stating:The shanty is black within and without through age and weather, but more through dirt and grime; and the decaying floor is filthier than the ground outside… A black woman sits on a log… She has eight children, and was married once, but only two of the children belonged to her husband. “Where is your husband?” “Is he living?” you ask. “Dunno, missis, don’t care; he may go to de debbil fur all I knows and cares.” Two of the children are partially blind through measles, and a third is a cripple. The oldest daughter is married, and with her husband and child lives at home; and the second which knows no father; and all this numerous family live in one small room, and all sleep together. In a 1986 special report titled, The Vanishing Black Family, the mindset and attitude of young black men and women were revealed as it relates to family structure. The women were satisfied with being single mothers because their mothers and grandmothers didn’t have fathers helping to raise them. Furthermore, black men had no qualms making children and abandoning them because they didn’t want the children to begin with. In their opinion, once the mothers gave birth, the children became theirs and theirs alone. The men weren’t responsible for the children that the mothers chose to have against his will. The sexual irresponsibility in the video lies on both black men and women. The black man (what’s his name) claimed that black women refused the usage of condoms, and he obliged. Both parties disregarded possible pregnancy and the contraction of venereal diseases. Therefore, the black man irresponsibly put himself at risk of impregnating the woman and by going through with the pregnancy, she essentially signed up for single motherhood. And there are a multitude of cases where the children of these types of parents grow up to repeat the same cycle. I’ve been to Ethiopia and toured Omo Valley in the southern part of the country. I spent over a week with multiple indigenous African tribes that hadn’t been influenced by mainstream society. I learned that the black man’s primary responsibility from the moment he’s born is to take care of his black women and children. Fathers raised their sons to earn a wife and fend for his family. Men had to convince a woman’s father that he was worthy of their daughter, and only then would the father agree for him to marry her. On the other hand, black women only had children by their husbands and worked hard to support their family. This is quite contrary to the Western world we live in today. In our society, the black man despises the black woman and disregards his children. The black woman, however, has no qualms with producing several children not only out of wedlock, but also by several different men. This is further evidence that black society has adopted the mentality given to them by white men and have forgotten their true purpose is life: the black family.Although black parents deliberately put themselves in positions of having children out of wedlock, many mothers grow to resent their children due to the stress of single motherhood. During slavery, a mother would give birth to a child and only days afterwards was she required to return to the field for work. If there wasn’t anyone to take care of the newborn, she’d have to take it with her. This would cause her to resent the infant and view it as a burden. The struggle of survival and taking care of multiple children as single mothers caused many black women to abuse their children. These mothers were overwhelmed by life and loneliness, blaming their children for their predicament. Others failed to form a maternal bond with their babies, at times becoming bitter towards them because the fathers had abandoned them. Moreover, black women with unwanted pregnancies would give birth to children only to throw them away in an alley garbage dumpster. Typically, black single mothers without education and stability come from broken families where their mother or father had died, divorced or separated, or abandoned them. In situations where young girls were left completely on their own, they’d end up in a poor environment that influenced their sexual behavior. Even if a parent, typically the mother, was around, she had to work, leaving young girls on their own. Then the girls end up being raised by their environment, taking on the sexual attitudes of those around them. It was common for single black mothers to be living in slums or housing projects where the environment was completely unsuitable for children. Franklin Frazier tells the story of a 14-year-old single mother who described the building she lived in, saying:The building where my cousin lives at now is terrible… You know what—that building ain’t nothin’ but for… [female homosexuals]… Some of the women in that building was a hustling. You know, they sell themselves. A man go up there, you know, and then they charge them $2.00. Men used to go up there all the time. There was an old woman there who used to come up to my cousin’s and she said to me one day, “Say, honey, when are you going to go up to my house and sleep with me?” She used to pat me down, and I turned around to her and one of the men in the house told her to let me alone I was a little girl… Police used to go up there and raid the place all the time… That place was so bad. I learned too much down there. Well, I’m glad that I did learn what I did for I can keep out of trouble from now on.Since the days of slavery, black women have been stereotypically labelled as hypersexual, promiscuous, and desiring rape. Not only was over 50% of female slaves victims of some form of sexual assault by white men, but also by black male slaves. In an essay called, Sexual Violence in the Lives of African American Women, written by Carolyn M. West and Kalimah Johnson, they described the sexual assaults perpetrated against black female slaves, stating: The institutional pattern of rape was well established before the newly enslaved Africans reached the Americas. During the transatlantic voyage, crew members routinely raped and impregnated Black women. In preparation for sale, enslaved women were stripped naked and placed on auction blocks. African American women’s economic value was dependent upon their ability to reproduce healthy offspring, which could be sold to increase the slave owner’s wealth. According to historians, at least 58% of enslaved women between the ages of 15 and 30 had been sexually assaulted by White men. After slavery ended, the Klu Klux Klan and other White vigilante groups whipped African Americans, destroyed their property, and gang raped Black women. Rape laws did not provide equal protection for all women… In 1859, a Mississippi judge overturned the conviction of an older slave who had raped a slave girl who was under the age of 10. The defense attorney argued: “The crime of rape does not exist in this State between African slaves…their intercourse is promiscuous.” Embedded in this court decision, and embraced by the larger culture for more than 500 years, was the belief that Black women’s innate hypersexuality made them “unrapeable” and underserving of protection or sympathy. During the civil rights movement and into the 1970s, rape against black women was so prevalent that activists formed anti-rape organizations to protest against sexual violence in their communities and in public spaces. Girls under the age of 18 have always been the most susceptible to sexual assault, especially through coercion, including strip dancing, prostitution, pornography, and sex trafficking. One in five black females have been sexually assaulted at one point in their lifetime. Most times the offenders are fathers, stepfathers, a spouse, other household members, a date, classmate, acquaintance, friend, or someone they knew. Black females under the influence of drugs and alcohol are the most at risk of rape, especially gang rape.In the late 1960s through the 2000s, crack cocaine and heroin ran rampant in the black community. These drugs completely annihilated what was left of the black family structure. Numerous black girls and women turned to drugs to escape the reality of their sexual abuse. Drug addicted mothers would birth children with no idea of who the fathers were. Many of these women lived high-risk lifestyles, having sexual partners while sharing needles for drug usage. The children of these women were extremely vulnerable to sexual assault. Several instances where these women would sell their children for drugs or expose them to random people that took advantage of their lack of protection.Throughout the dope era, teenage pregnancy rates were extremely high. Young girls would often have casual sex with older married men and end up pregnant with no assistance. Older men took advantage of these girls’ lack of resources and family support. It was common for a man over 30-years-old to be with a girl under the age of 21. In many cases, sexually abused young girls would be promiscuous, especially if they had been molested, having had casual sex with many boys and men, and contracting venereal diseases or pregnancies. To make matters worse, to this day most people don’t even view these young girls as victims, referring to them as “fast hoes” that knew what they were doing. It is unfathomable in the black community for the sexual behavior of adolescent black girls to be considered a result of sexual abuse or coercion. Young black girls are unfairly treated like adults with a full mental capacity to make responsible decisions related to their sexuality. Teenage girls coming from families where there’s little to no support may find themselves prostituting, stripping, or making pornography for survival. One of the main reasons that many black females suffer from depression or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is because of having been sexually violated in their lifetime.Incest has always been prevalent in the black community. During slavery, it was common for cousins to become romantic partners and even marry, especially those within close proximity to each other. Young girls and boys have been targeted by members of their church, fathers and other male family members and friends. Many times, the girls end up pregnant and forced into having an abortion. In countless cases, the family or community knew about the pedophiles and swept the abuse under the rug. Violators of sexual abuse, especially incest, typically offend with impunity. Black families are inclined to put more emphasis on protecting the offenders than the victims themselves. Most incidents of abuse become family secrets and the abuser is allowed remain a part of the family as others overlook their transgressions. Black men are the main sexual abusers and rapists in the black community, although women offend as well. As a matter of fact, young black boys and girls that are abused in their adolescence grow up to become abusers themselves, often times admitted having been sexually assaulted by a female babysitter or family member. RnB singer, R. Kelly, is a perfect example of an abuser having been abused by his sister and other men as a child. He ultimately preyed upon teenage girls that black society blamed for their own victimization, further proving that young black girls aren’t protected in the black community. His fame and the fact that he inspired many in the community took precedence over black girls’ safety and protection.Overall, sexual irresponsibility in the black community is rooted in slavery. The moral compass black people once possessed was lost with their identities as they were forced into becoming commodities for profit. Although it’s still a significant issue in black society, sexual behaviors have improved since there is more awareness about contraceptives, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)—including HIV—and abortion options. Sex education should be required for black students in high school to not only emphasize the importance of abstinence, but also to highlight risks, especially those related to unprotected sex, and to provide solutions to mitigate them. Parents must discuss sex with their children, unfortunately, as young as 10 years of age because they’re being exposed to the topic that early by their peers. The last thing black children need is to be taught about sex by others who are just as ignorant as they are on the subject.Furthermore, the avoidance of sleeping with promiscuous or high-risk individuals is necessary. A person who maintains an irresponsible sexual lifestyle is more susceptible to contracting, and therefore, spreading STDs. There are several facilities that provide drug users with free clean needles and condoms to prevent spreading diseases. HIV medicines have improved to not only prevent gay males from contracting the virus, but also those diagnosed with it from spreading it. Using condoms and other contraceptives are the best practices that any sexually active person can take to protect themselves from long-term suffering.Promiscuous people should investigate within themselves an understanding of why they perpetrate reckless sexual behavior. More often their desires are rooted in low self-esteem and major insecurities. These days, many black women are pursuing therapy for healing and to explore their insecurities. Most black men, however, refuse to acknowledge there’s a problem to begin with, and therefore, won’t even consider counseling. However, all black men and women should investigate therapeutic options that will allow them to spiritually find themselves and overcome trauma endured throughout their lifetimes. Black people should value and love themselves and their bodies enough to avoid behaviors that are likely to disrespect or violate their well-being.Family secrets of incest and sexual abuse are being exposed more these days, forcing the perpetrators to be held accountable—although not nearly as often as they should be. Children are still the most vulnerable for being assaulted by pedophiles, however, parents are more aware that offenders are most likely family members or those closest to them. These days, many parents are somewhat more diligent in vetting who they allow around their children. Perhaps in the past it was “normal” for black families to ignore sexual abuse, but this must end today. No longer are the days where offenders can defile boys and girls and live as if nothing happened. Rapists must be revealed and punished for their crimes. Many victims refuse to report their assault out of fear, most times of not being believed or blamed for it. Society must end victim blaming and promote safe spaces for those assaulted to comfortably admit the crimes perpetrated against them and have confidence that the offender will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Too many studies have proven that sexual abuse of children and adults has a long-term effect on their physical and mental health, causing many of them to go down a toxic path just to deal with the pain. Family support and advocates for the victims are necessary for their healing, and healthy coping methods must be provided to help them overcome challenges. RESOURCES USED FOR THIS ARTICLE Diane Miller Sommerville Rape and Race in the Nineteenth Century-South E. Frazier Franklin Negro Family in the United States Carolyn M. West and Kalimah Johnson Sexual Violence in the Lives of African American Women (Free Research Paper)

Just Pearly Things and Nicholas Fuentes

https://youtu.be/CHVfpFoNz-EJust Pearly Things has a live YouTube show called, “The Pregame,” where she invites guests on to discuss many topics, including those related to the manosphere and Red Pill. The manosphere is a social movement of men that promote toxic masculinity, misogyny and anti-feminism. On the other hand, the Red Pill community claims that society favors women over men. Consequently, their views are extremely patriarchal and sexist, and in many cases their rhetoric borders dangerous to women. The main members of the manosphere and Red Pill communities are involuntary celibate men (aka incels) that possess toxic ideology of manhood and a hatred for women. Just Pearly Things is a strong proponent of sexist and misogynistic beliefs, and a large percentage of her supporters are black men. Recently, she had an infamous white supremacist live streamer named Nicholas Fuentes on her show, where they discussed and shared their racist views on the Jewish holocaust and chattel slavery. To no surprise, Nick did what he does, which is spew his ignorant and racist ideas, referring to the holocaust as, “not a big deal,” among other things. However, what’s shocking is Just Pearly Things saying that slavery was essentially “embellished” and “made more horrible so that they can control people.”Now, I’m not sure who “they” are or what’s the relationship between the reality of slavery and “controlling people.” However, I think it’s important to remind ourselves of some of the events that took place throughout the institution of slavery and assess if perhaps the events were “embellishments”. What better way to do this than to refer to slave narratives provided by the people who actually experienced it. According to the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, written for Sojourner truth by Olive Gilberty, she was given the name Isabella, and tells us:…her master, Charles Ardinburgh…[moved into a ] new house, which he had built for a hotel, soon after the decease of his father. A cellar, under this hotel, was assigned to his slaves, as their sleeping apartment—all the slaves possessed of both sexes, sleeping (as quite common in a state of slavery) in the same room. She carries in her mind, to this day, a vivid picture of this dismal chamber; it’s only lights consisting of a few pines of glass, through which she thinks the sun never shone… and the space between the loose boards of the floor, and the uneven earth below, was often filled with mud and water, the uncomfortable splashings of which were as annoying as its noxious vapors must have been chilling and fatal to health… Both sexes and all ages, sleeping on those damp boards…she wonders not at the rheumatisms, and fever-sores, and palsies, that distorted the limbs and racked the bodies of those fellow-slaves in the after-life… so much to any innate or constitutional cruelty of the master… that inherited the habit among slaveholders, of expecting a willing and intelligent obedience from the slave, because he is a MAN—at the same time everything belonging to the soul-harrowing system does its best to crush the last vestige of a man within him; and when it is crushed, and often before, he is denied the comforts of life, on the plea that he knows neither the want nor the use of them, and because he is considered to be little more or little less than a beast… [Isabella] was often surprised to find her mother in tears, and when, in her simplicity, she inquired, ‘Mau-mau, what makes you cry?’ she would answer, ‘Oh, my child, I am thinking of your brothers and sisters that have been sold away from me.’”And if the selling of her brothers and sisters weren’t bad enough, soon Isabella and her remaining brother, Peter, would find themselves on the same auction block as their siblings years earlier. Ms. Truth describes the experience of being on the auction block saying:A slave auction was a terrible affair to its victims, and its incidents and consequences are graven on their hearts as with a pen of burning steel. At this memorable time, Isabella was struck off, for the sum of one hundred dollars, to one John Nealy, of Ulster County, New York…she was now nine years of age… she says with emphasis, “Now the war begun” … Then she suffered ‘terribly—terribly,’ with the cold. During the winter her feet were badly frozen, for want of proper covering. They have her a plenty to eat, and also a plenty of whippings. One Sunday morning, in particular, she was told to go to the barn; on going there, she found her master with a bundle of rods, prepared in the embers, and bound together with cords. When he tied her hands together before her, he gave her the most cruel whipping she was ever tortured with. He whipped her till the flesh was deeply lacerated, and the blood streamed from her wounds—and the scars remain to the present day, to testify to the fact.Frederick Douglas testified to Ms. Truth’s claims of barbaric physical abuse during slavery in his book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, stating that:Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder… He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding. He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave. I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rendering shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose. The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin. I remember the first time I ever witnessed this horrible exhibition. I was quite a child, but I well remember it. I never shall forget it whilst I remember anything. It was the first of a long series of such outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant. It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle. I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it.Douglas referred to slavery as “hell” that he couldn’t begin to describe in words. Now, imagine your babies being snatched out of your arms and then sold to the highest bidder for you to never see again. Picture screaming and begging for your little one to be returned to you, falling to the floor, only for your pleas to go unheard. This was a regular experience for many slaves, and there was absolutely nothing they could do about it. Douglas tells of his experience being taken from his mother, saying:My mother was named Harriet Bailey… [she was] colored and quite dark. My father was a white man… My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant—before I knew her as my mother. It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor. For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child’s affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child. This is the inevitable result.Beatings to a bloody pulp and being separated from mothers and fathers doesn’t sound quite like embellishments to me. However, for a white woman, who obviously has no knowledge or even a basic understanding of what slavery was like for black people, to sit and suggest that their experiences are “embellishments” is disgusting and a perfect exemplification of white privilege. Just Pearly Things has the privilege of basking in the comforts of her white experience where she’s always been protected from the myth of imminent harm by the big black buck. White men have perpetrated some of the cruelest acts of beatings, lynching, castrations, homoeroticism and cannibalism against black men and women, to not only gain control of black people, but also to protect the white woman from imagined injury. In his book, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture, Vincent Woodard details the horrible events of male rape and cannibalism during slavery, stating:Black exposed bodies allowed whites to entertain the idea that Blacks are the lady of the races or passive subjects to the aggressive will and ways of Europeans… But between the Slave masters and overseers existed the secrecy of human consumption and homoeroticism; acts that were considered dishonorable and against the rituals of white social etiquette. This secrecy manifested into an unspoken code of silence designed to preserve white male honor… The consumption of human blood and flesh was a common practice perpetrated during slavery by white slave masters. The origins of human consumption could be dated back to the first interactions between coastal Africans and white colonizers. In Africa, the encounters of cannibalism with white Christian ministers spread the reality and belief that the church, traders, and European imperialists serves as an institutionalized venue of cannibalism and resource consumption.During the Renaissance and Victoria eras people ingested the human tissue of executed criminals as a tonic or medicine. Reverend Edward Taylor was a New England practitioner whose dispensary included remedies made from human blood, flesh, and other human body parts.Despite denying cannibalism, slaves and ex-slaves have documented accounts of white male consumption of black flesh during slavery in several narratives, journals, diaries, black newspapers published in the 19th century, speeches, sermons, testimonies, autobiographies during the Antebellum period, accounts witnessed by white abolitionists, interviews, and advertisements for runaway slaves.Nat Turner, an African American slave who led a two-day slave revolt—causing the death of 60 white men, women, and children, was caught and his body was boiled, and his oil saved and sold as a remedy for medicinal purposes called Nat’s Grease. His life and political legacy represent one of the most graphic documented cases of white acquired tastes for black flesh and harvesting body parts. Black residents in Southampton, Virginia maintained oral records of whites who tried to coerce them into eating Nat’s boiled flesh and internal organs. Black people being eaten during slavery is an unspoken truth that shines a light on just how depraved and barbaric the system of slavery was. Yet, in 2023, a white woman feels comfortable sitting with a proud white supremacist and saying that slavery was “embellished to control people”. The only control of people that is very conspicuous is that of the patriarchal white supremacist capitalist system that she benefits from. And to think that at one point, her ancestors ate and raped black men, essentially claiming it was “white male codes of honor and self-glorification”. Homoeroticism was so prevalent during slavery that it’s no wonder, “many enslaved black men questioned their masculinity and even being a man altogether. The confusion caused many to resort to adopting the gender and identity of black and white women,” hence the significant number of men that identify as part of the LBGTQ community. Vincent Woodard tells us:Among themselves, black men held each other to a strict code of masculinity that entailed never being sexual subjects and defining their masculine relationship to another through the protection of black women. They emphasized radical masculinity, and traditional structures of black family, reproduction, gender and sexuality. So, to be sexually violated meant automatic consumption of his soul. He is then undignified and emasculated as a man. Some of the most popular black activists and ex-slaves have been raped by white men including Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, James Baldwin, W.E.B. Dubois, and Booker T. Washington. Vincent tells a story of a West African man named Joseph Lavallee who was captured by the French and wrote a book about the colonial homosexual relationships between Africans and Europeans. In the book, protagonist, Itanoko, was on a ship where the entire white crew were fascinated by the size of his penis and physique and raped him.There are infinite stories of black people telling their experiences of abuse and trauma during slavery. I assure Just Pearly Things and anyone else who believes that the reality of slavery is at any point embellished. It doesn’t need any extra drama or horror for neither control nor ‘clout’ but can Just Pearly Things say the same thing. And if that isn’t uncanny enough, some black men actually disregard her comments as racist and even agree with them. But there is a rich history and a wealth of analysts that have written books explaining the black man’s obsession with the white woman. It doesn’t matter if these women express their racist attitudes about black people, some black men have disassociated themselves from the black collective, and therefore, have no qualms with her racist views. Here are some of the comments that black men have made condoning Just Pearly Things opinions. I acquired these from the comment section of YouTube content creator, Anthony Brian Logan, and from Twitter: So, you see, there are so many black men who will protect racist white women but berate and leave black women to defend themselves. Just Pearly Things also has a black co-host named King Richez, who normally has no problem expressing his white supremacist attitude about black women, and of course he’s with a white woman. He came out with a video essentially defending her and making excuses for her racism. He claimed that she was ignorant and didn’t know what she was saying, which is insulting because she knew exactly what she was saying. However, she didn’t expect the level of backlash that she received for saying it. But King Richez’s attempt to save an ignorant racist white woman as if she’s a damsel in distress is very typical of many black men. As a matter of fact, most black men have accepted America’s definition of his experience and see themselves as the white men they could never be. They don’t necessarily say this to themselves or anyone else, but it’s innate in them and they don’t care enough to recognize it. What’s more, it doesn’t help that at one point in history, not only did the white man have unlimited access to black women, by force and voluntarily, but black men were legally and forcefully outlawed from having any dealings with white women. This made them more determined to acquire white women and once they reached their goal, they felt like an accomplished man. With their new manhood and white women on their arms, black men accepted everything that came with having those women, even to their own detriment. She could do no wrong in his eyes, and he justified her disrespect and racism by being delusional, convincing himself that her beliefs didn’t apply to him. Michele Wallace perfectly describes how this country molded the black man’s desire to imitate and acquire white flesh in her book, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, saying:America had made one point painfully clear. As long as the black man did not have access to white women, he was not a man. The lynching, murders, beatings, the miscegenation laws designed to keep the black man and the white woman apart while the white man helped himself to black women, created in him a tremendous sense of personal urgency on this matter. America had not allowed him to be a man. He wanted to be one. What bothered America the most? The black man and the white woman. Therefore, if he had a white woman, he would be more of a man. And as it became more and more apparent that white America would regard any serious bid for social, economic, and political equality as a declaration of full-scale war, the white woman/black man version of freedom began to make a great deal of sense… Come 1966, the black man had two pressing tasks before him: a white woman in every bed and a black woman under every heel.It doesn’t matter that many white women entertain black men because of their fetish for black flesh. Most of these women don’t love, respect, or appreciate blackness in any capacity. They envy black women and believe black men are inferior to not only them, but to their white men as well. However, this doesn’t stop white women from sexing and procreating with black men. Michele Wallace tells us:Some white women were quite blunt: They wanted black cock because it was the best cock there was. Educated, middle-class liberal white men…seemed to feel it was their duty to condone relationships between white women and black men because that would mean they weren’t racist. Even the lower-class white man tended to simply look the other way…. And black women made no attempt to disguise their anger and disgust… Some black women would laugh low in their throats when they saw a black man with a white woman and make cracks about his high-water pants or his flat head or his walk, anything that might suggest that he was inadequate: “Only the rejects crawl for white pussy.”Many white women even treat their biracial children like toys or pets, wanting them only for their curly hair and tanned skin. They have no desire to teach them anything about their black heritage, and most times emphasize their racist views to the child about their disdain for blackness, shattering their self-esteem and confidence. And the black men who do stick around to raise the biracial kids have nothing to do with his own blackness, and therefore, leave the children to navigate the world as half black people on their own. Many black people don’t consider biracial people black enough and white people wouldn’t dare consider them white, so they’re left confused with identity issues.The fact is that most black men and white women share the same attitudes about blackness, especially as it relates to black women. But we listen as many black men give their unsubstantiated reasons as to why they prefer white women. Michele Wallace describes their excuses, saying, “Black men often could not separate their interest in white women from their hostility towards black women. “I can’t stand that black bitch,” was the way it was usually put. Other black men argued that white women gave them money, didn’t put them down, made them feel like men.”Regardless, many black men weren’t offended by Just Pearly Things offensive opinions, but others were. Not only did other black men and women condemn her racism, but many whites did as well. And because the uproar was so extreme, Just Pearly Things did what white racists do when they’re in damage control mode, and came out with a video, reading an apologetic script that didn’t seem genuine at all. She appeared as if she was indifferent and wasn’t truly apologetic. This is most likely because the black men that follow her aren’t going anywhere, and she knows this. Those that agree with or condone her disgusting attitude about slavery being “embellished to control people” possess white supremacist patriarchal mindsets. And white supremacists argue that slavery was a necessary institution for the betterment and sufficiency of the white race. Therefore, if you’re a black man with these racist beliefs, it’s no wonder that you can comfortably assume the mantle of indignity, and still follow and support a privileged, entitled, ignorant white woman like Just Pearly Things. Resources Used for this Article Sojourner Truth The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Shop for Book Frederick Douglas The Narrative of Frederick Douglas Shop for Book Vincent Woodard The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture Shop for Book Michele Wallace Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman Shop for Book