Where are all the Black Men?

The source used for this treatment has a racially discursive undertone and overtone that requires a preface that explains there is no functional reasoning as to why interracial marriage should be demonized or prohibited.

If marriage is a goal, the racial configuration of a person should not be a determinant in their partners capacity to love them. Race, as a social construct, should never have been used as a reason why the positive aspects of love can’t be experienced if the people engaged in the relationship are not of the same race or class. 

This treatment, focuses on the shortage of Black men within society and to explore and expose the fake outcry and outrage of their absence within mainstream society and feminist rhetoric. To be clear, the empowerment of women is a celebrated achievement in a male dominated society, the methods by which that goal is achieved and the bodies it leaves in its wake is where the disconnect begins but not where it ends. 

Where are all the Black men? 

“The racial demographics argument is interesting because, of those we have looked at so far, it is least tied to the explicit political project of fighting white racism, with its accompanying ideological assumptions. This argument simply points to the relatively uncontroversial statistical fact that, because of the disproportionate numbers of Black men in jail, unemployed, or dead. At an early age (which may or may not be attached to white racism) there is a significant imbalance of females to “marriageabe" Black males. 

• Marriageable, may itself, of course seem to have classist overtones, and it is true that this complaint comes most often from the middle class, or upwardly mobile Black women, but the problem is more general. 

In the United States in particular, there were widespread laws against what used to be (and in sometime still called miscegenation), and for many of the thousands of Black men lynched in the post-Civil war decades, the pretext was the accusation of raping a white woman with prolonged torture and castration often preceding the killing. 

• Why does the question of where are all the Black men still persist as one that people delude themselves into not knowing the answer to? 

• Since the conceptualization of the American plantation, Black men have been the target of abhorrent torture and social expulsion. But we continue to ask, where are all the Black men? 

We watch their modern day lynchings, outright murdering, and dehumanization as unjust prisoners, often wrongly accused and imprisoned. The people who ask this question demonstrates their level of indoctrination into a delusional state of existence. 

You know where all of the Black men are and you know who put and/or sent them there; and the active and indecent complacency of a society that continues to allow it to happen. 

-Yogabrofessor

Montmarquet, J. A., & Hardy, W. H. (2000). Reflections An Anthology of African American Philosophy. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA65356223