Found this today on Byron Hurt's web site. B. Hurt is a filmmaker and anti-sexist advocate, and this particular documentary is part of the Black Masculity Project, an effort to redefine the concept of manhood in the Black community.
I, personally, have always wished for a shift in the paradigm of black masculinity, so this video struck a chord with me. And I was going to try to write something enlightening or academic to introduce it, but I decided I'm better off just letting it speak for itself.
So watch, enjoy, and comment.
Friday, October 10, 2008
On Masculinity
Labels: black folk, menfolk, race issues, women issues
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5 comments:
My Two Pennies...
I get what they were trying to do, but I'm not too impressed with it. The premise seemed a little forced and unfocused. Plus that white dude lecturing about "white supremacist patriarchal capitalism" didn't ring true to me. It seemed like everybody was trying to talk intelligently, but not really saying anything.
Oh, and I did your tag...
Look, for 400 years, White America mandated that Black men be effeminate wussues, on pain of public castration and lynching.
Since the Civil Rights Era, Black men have had the right to be MEN, instead of stephin fetchet nancyboys, and that's a GOOD thing, not a bad thing!!!
If American White, Hispanic, Asian and American Indian men were to renounce manhood tomorrow, they's still owe Black men a balance of 360 years of virtual castration - the debt has not yet been paid!!!
So, I have to say NO to the new wussified pretified sanitized-for-White-America's-comfort Barack Obama girlymanhood - I'll stick with the 50 Cent/Iceberg Slim/Eldrege Cleaver variety!!!!
So you emulate Cleaver, a self-admitted rapist? Do you have any daughters, or a mother? SMH.
I agree with rashan. The attempt is falling flat. I am worried that black men, at least the black men they showed in the documentary, still want to cling to this victim mentality and not take responsibility for the state they're in. You can't keep using white supremacy as a scapegoat. They're still preoccupied by white men. Sorry, the average white male is not thinking about you. They have their own problems.
And that white dude looked like he read a little too much bell hooks with the white supremacist patriarchal capitalism rhetoric.
Hi there guys, thanks so much for posting this. You should know that the Masculinity Project is currently live here: http://blackpublicmedia.org/masculinity
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