imperfect disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. black man with an opinion
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Friction is not a bug in human development, it is a feature. The process of being "sharpened" requires the actual resistance, correction, and lived experience of another person. An algorithmic tool offers smooth validation, but it lacks the moral weight and relational friction required to shape character.
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Ahamad Jamal performs "The Awakening" live in 1973 'Black Omnibus' hosted by James Earl Jones.
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Yes. DJ Jubilee nem was doing ts way back in the 90’s then Teezy came with the revamp calling it the Trip Out.
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The Sisters of the Holy Family, a Black American Catholic religious order based in New Orleans, Louisiana founded in 1837
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Many forms of domestic violence and abuse are underreported. Especially when it’s directed against men. I got a homeboy who just got out of prison a few years ago and is living with a girlfriend who calls the police on him and tries to violate his probation when she is angry.
What instrument is there for him to report that when studying IPV? What’s the cascading effects of this kind of weaponization of police for a black man with a criminal record? Where can he get help for being targeted in this way?
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Black males were and are lynched on this exact myth. And the data is clear that boys and men are sexually victimized too, including by women, and they're rarely believed. If we want rape unthinkable, start by seeing boys as people who can be harmed, not just threats to be managed.
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On this day in 1800, Nat Turner was born in Southampton County, Virginia. An enslaved preacher who believed he received divine visions, Turner led the 1831 Southampton Insurrection, one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history.
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Yes. They are. BMS scholars consider this to be part of black men’s sexual vulnerability in patriarchal societies. Men and women from their own and the dominant group violate them.
Attention to black males’s vulnerability to females who are their age or older gets you attacked in black studies though. I’ve had a student storm out of class with tears in her eyes just over a disagreement on the topic of sexual abuse. You can’t disagree with anyone that men are perpetrators and women are solely victims.
Many black boys carry unresolved trauma from childhood sexual abuse, or loss of virginity to older women. It often manifests as lust, hypersexuality or trauma in adult Black men. Young boys deserve protection just as much as young girls, they often forgotten in this conversation.
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🚨 Da’Shaun L. Harrison at Socialism 2026 argues that the policing of “Black fat flesh” is foundational to broader "entire systems of governance."
“Without a population to discipline, there would be no BMI, no obesity epidemic, and no medical or scientific institutions organized around managing fatness,” Harrison says.
Harrison argues that diet culture trains “obedience,” “self-denial,” and “discipline,” before expanding the framework into what Harrison calls “body fascism.”
That includes state efforts to define which bodies are protected or erased, calls for sovereignty intended to maintain borders, and the treatment of Black flesh itself.
Harrison then turns to Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs, arguing that the broader effort to treat fatness as a public-health problem cannot be separated from Blackness.
At this point, I am genuinely at a loss for words.
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No but it makes sense to me. Academic theory is great for making social eunuchs out of marginalized men…
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I wonder if he’s ever read The Man-Not: youtu.be/td1PbsV6B80?is=klV1…
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