Black men’s mental health concerns are going unnoticed and unaddressed
Black men’s mental health concerns are going unnoticed and unaddressed
Black men and boys must continuously confront the negative stereotypes attached with Black masculinity, and this can impact their mental health.
ALL power-minorities, women, Indigenous, battered people, homeless people, autistics, the same is true.
Power-majority is self-centered, aka narcissistic.
That is the default.
"majority RULE" means minority over-ruled/bullied, inherently.
Look at how a story in the Abrahamic religions scripture, on how women ate "the fruit of the knowledge of Good & Evil" which means they ate Morality .. got turned, by the power-majority into hating-on women for their "sin".
Women ( mothering ) ate of morality & shared it with men.
Period.
Researchers studying wasps in the Americas discovered that altruism is generalized-mothering, Buddhism perceived the same underlying-principle 25 consecutive centuries ago, the correct reading of that story in Genesis stated so, but the male-supremacism deformed the meaning until bullying women became religious-law for .. millenia..
Many years ago, in the 1990's, there were the Internet FAQs.
The Feminism FAQ of that time identified that there was a category-difference between early White feminists & early Black feminists:
White feminists wanted to be included in the White privilege that males had. They wanted their half of White entitlement.
Black feminists, being bullied both for being women & for being Black, wanted something completely different: they wanted the abuse to be forced to unexist.
That is evidence ( my life corroborates it ) that our unconscious, when bullied in 1 dimension, wants to be included in the power-majority group, but when bullied in 2+ dimensions ( each individual may have a different threshold ), then the underlying problem with bullying-itself is understood by one's unconscious, and it becomes removing bullying's rule that one's unconscious understands to be the problem.
It isn't leaving women, Indiginous people, homeless people, etc, fucked-over, while fixing it for 1 subgroup, that is going to make humankind viable, it is dismantling abuse-archy for all that can.
IF we earn it.
in time.
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