Today is one of those Kuloo Kalay Frabjous Days!! I am diverging from my usual topics to share that… I POSTED MY FIRST VIDEO ON YOUTUBE TODAY! Oh Frabjous Joy!! But will the Jabberwock go galumphing back? Will I get comments? Will they like it? Will you? Let me know. It’s a timely piece on … Continue reading »
Suicide Rate among Black Males (15-24) Doubled Since 1980 While Global Suicide Rate Exceeds War and Murder
The suicide rate among young Black men has doubled since 1980, making it the third leading cause of death among Black males ages 15 to 24 according to Joseph Williams at Essence.com. And the problem afflicts both youth at-risk youth and men from affluent, intact families. Check out his article on the suicide watch for … Continue reading »
Exploring Gender Cross-Culturally: Black and Asian Women More Likely to Be In Debt
So this week, actually this moment, I am taking control of my debt. I got more than I ever thought I would ever have. My first experience with money was a passbook savings account from my mother. It had $500 in it. I spent it all within months on candy and other miscellany at 15. … Continue reading »
Exploring Gender Cross-Culturally: Africa, Gender and Development
In the representations of Black America we see through media and even through our neighborhoods, patriarchy tends to dominate. Even when it is said that women run the church, the school and even the home, it is men whom tends to be seen as the head of the household. Even his absence points to this … Continue reading »
Exploring Gender Cross-Culturally: Wrong Bathroom (GIE)
THE WRONG BATHROOM Ever had someone question your actual sex because you don’t look like you express the gender associated with it? Gender Identity Expression is a serious source of confusion, hate, and even murder. Gender cross-culturally does not require crossing national borders to understand. For our friends and family who are gay, lesbian, transgender … Continue reading »
Exploring Gender Cross-Culturally: Persia/Iran
Thought it might be interesting to introduce other worldviews of gender during July. By comparing our norms and expectations of the relations between the sexes we gain the most insight into our own (not the other’s). This is from Encyclopedia Iranica.About the photo below: An Iranian woman veiled in modern fashion crosses a street in … Continue reading »
Black Male Leadership in America and Support of Young Black Boys and Men in our Communities
Unity for Change events happened all over the U.S. yesterday. In Brooklyn we crossed the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan with NY State Senator Eric Adams and a well-trained crew of activists with the Obama campaign. There was about 50-70 of us from age 5 to 60 and we chanted and got folks to blow their … Continue reading »
Hits have increased on Black People Meet
I can’t explain it at all. I’ve been getting these great hits on my black people meet profile since I posted the list yesterday (see the post here on Black People Meet 6/25). Go figure! Tell it like it is and be straight and you’ll get what you want? Is that the way it works? … Continue reading »
Critique of Black People Meet
After spending day after day checking my BLACK PEOPLE MEET site for mail I’ve come to a few conclusions about the site. I keep thinking maybe tomorrow the responses I get on BPM will turn around (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result — Einstein). The subscription initially … Continue reading »
George Carlin R.I.P!
So much of what my life is coming to be about is in some way epitomized by social commentator and philosopher as counter-culture comedian George Carlin who died in Santa Monica on Sunday evening of cardiac arrest. What I mean is that “being offended” has increasingly become a resource for discovering how American culture ticks, … Continue reading »
