a Young Man's proposals

Family,

I'm blessed to be a part of a dynamic extended Family. Multi-generational, diverse, scholarly, skilled, grindin', perfectly flawed and yes effected by the deliberate attacks of oppressors to do away with me. We must face up to our situation and take back our power. There are facts that we need to take charge of and bring back love, marriage and commitment. Embrace those of us who struggle into the extended arms of the family. Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts Cousins gather up our Family from the East to the West, North to the South". 

Stop following the Oppressors template for what makes our African lives relevant and healthy. Return to the principles that empowered us to thrive after the holocaust and re-establish ourselves firmly in the Earth: interdependence, co-operation, ethics and nuclear families, with loving Mothers and Fathers. Celebrities shouldn't be our model, the money ain't making their life better. I'm calling on my Generation to take back our fate. Poverty doesn't have to break down the Family. Its about our Character. 

ManUP. WomanUP.  I ain't judgin' I'm just sayin'... BTW White Folks are in serious trouble, too. 

-  Siddiq Faluse Jeffries


Excerpt from City Journal

 By now, these facts shouldn’t be hard to grasp. Almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers. Those mothers are far more likely than married mothers to be poor, even after a post-welfare-reform decline in child poverty. They are also more likely to pass that poverty on to their children. Sophisticates often try to dodge the implications of this bleak reality by shrugging that single motherhood is an inescapable fact of modern life, affecting everyone from the "bobo" Murphy Browns to the ghetto “baby mamas.” Not so; it is a largely low-income—and disproportionately black—phenomenon. The vast majority of higher-income women wait to have their children until they are married. The truth is that we are now a two-family nation, separate and unequal—one thriving and intact, and the other struggling, broken, and far too often African-American. (Whites are in serious crisis, too but for different reasons)