ICE-T ABOUT MANHOOD

Ice T as a father makes good points.

Black powerful woman emerging from the birthing waters

Last year in 2014 in January Ice-T's tweet stirred the thoughts of many and went right to the heart of the story of American manhood: " FYI: That's why my new Body Count LP is titled MANSLAUGHTER. It's about the death of Manhood. Real men are an endangered species."

There has been an assault against men and masculinity in century twenty and for good solid reasons. We had to take it because it deserved the cross examination. We are talking about Western thought. As an Indian and an African man our sense of manhood and masculinity was forced into this paradigm so under the glare of American women there was no differentiation. But, in the 21st century the diatribe has turned ugly and truth to change conditions is now an ugly assault for the sake of an assault to undermine the natural occurrences of the alpha male. Starting with little boys it is brutal and ugly. Nature is not going to stop creating us. But, the political rise of the Gay Movement is spearheading the feminizing of the male for consumption by anger, fear, rage, intimidation, and a sense of righteousness that is dismissive of natural processes.

The rapper, Ice T, is a crude and direct cat straight out of the projects. His fame gave him face to the place he came from and with the responsibility of fame and accomplishment he has a 'ride or die' mentality that keeps him fearless in his purposes. In his analysis he says gay men are not to blame for the “pussyfication” of the male sex.

“I think right now you’re dealing with the pussyfication of the male sex. Men are just being so passive, not standing for something; they’re very politically correct." He continued saying,

“This has nothing to do with the gay male. The gay male is gay and I have no problem with that. Men are just soft. It’s OK to say you want to be a woman, but try to be a man and there’s something wrong with that.”

He explained: ”One of my buddies told me, ‘For you to be a man, a bitch has definitely taken a position.’ If you’re with your girl and you’re like, ‘Where should we park? I don’t know…’, she’ll be like, ‘Park here!’

Deep in his manhood, like the rest of us, is our sense of our responsibilities as a father. Ice T as many of us do has a theme running through his parenting style that is far outside the thin and timid narratives popular culture is demanding men place upon their necks as yokes. To those with ears he said and I understand this knowing: ”My son grew up with people smoking weed and drinking, right in his face. All I could do was say, ‘There’s an adult world and a kid world. You live in a kid world. Adults can say that, you can’t. You can say other shit once you can drive!"

Men, real men, are not to be dictated to by feminine men or by women who know not themselves. There is no wisdom in that and we don't and will never respect it because of the foolish nature of their projections. Our responsibilities to protect are from hard places with gentle reasons that evolve from the truth love inspires in actions to know our nature and to operate naturally as we play our role creating sacred and safe space for our families and ideally our communities. It is the edge and the soul of masculinity to resist docility and listen with restraint when necessary and to kill what is within us that works against our lives. If not for the killing by evil men we would not have to take on the hard task of protecting ourselves and the People with force. A soft girly man needs protection too, but does not have the right or the power to determine masculinity or undermine the strength and imagination of boys. For that he could die in any of the ways a man could die for that crime.

Women are becoming a puzzle speaking against what they need in men. Many women cling to their girly-men to the derision of their sons and the put down of their daughter's need to fathom the sacredness of their femininity. Ice T, as I pointed out earlier, is a basic type of cat. He once pointed out a gross contradiction with clarity:

”Women want power. But at the same time they’ve made men feel uncomfortable about speaking their feelings.”

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
6.9.15