Black Men Need To Step Up?

"It is my belief that anyone who is unwilling to help a child based on choices that his mother made (choices that he had no part in at all, but only suffers from) then you have no reason to complain about the ghetto, ghetto mentality, or if that same child grows up to be a criminal or a useless member of society. It has nothing to do with the mother, it is about the child. If anyone is not willing to be part of the solution, as far as I am concerned, he/she is part of the problem."

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"mentoring poor bastard children, oh. yeah, that's not for me, i see them as they are, mistakes."

1)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/30/AR201001300212­0.html

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[nomyaw]

Women keep saying step up, but dont know how. To sit down and get out of the way and let us lead

[stynred]

i tried to listen brother but that black screen put me to sleep

[whitebitchnigga]

These black women must fall in line or we gotta let them BURN and SUFFER

[mantleofvalor]

@renz722

My sentiment, exactly.

We are not father figures. These women need to choose responsible men, establish a home, which means marriage as opposed to fornication, and raise their own children. Now, we are all part of Hillary Clinton's "Village"..

[renz722]

Mentoring or stepping in as a "father-like" figure for the so-called at risk children does nothing to solve the problems in the black community (especially the inner-city) because it doesn't address the real problem....the real problem being the piss poor choices made by BW....Excellent vid btw

[gallyun1]

"It's hard for you to step up, when people don't respect you." I feel you man. When I did mentoring awhile back, I noticed how some of the kids looked at me as a dork, and maybe one or two kinda looked up to me. Like you said, this is just putting a band-aid on a problem, BW fail at choosing decent men or surrounding themselves around "positive" BM.

Also to add, these women are not being good mentors to their daughters as well.