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Article: Black men must fight back against obstacles.(For Brothers Only)
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
- Author:
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In recent years, the media, social scientists and other segments of society have had a field day portraying Black men as the "wretched of the earth." The usual statistics used to drive their point home is unemployment rate, our fatherless homes and our incarceration rate. Oddly enough, most of the brilliant analysts fail to correlate the unemployment rate with crime and incarceration and the fatherless homes, not to mention failed substandard education systems.
Let me suggest, however, that all Black men are not the deadbeat thugs that many in our society like to project them to be. Despite centuries of oppression, rejection and denial of opportunity, we have ...