Comments on: Guest Post: AB’s New "Man-Laws" For Young Black Males

By: Regina

Regina — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:09:00 +0000

What an excellent post! I am in agreement, but I would like you to add something to your list…
Whether in your house or in your car please turn down your darn music! The people in the house next door or in the car next to you do not want to hear your crap rap blasting at the highest volume you can find. Show some common courtesy to people around you!

By: Qucifer

Qucifer — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:33:00 +0000

Good Goddamn girl!! If i didn’t sit here amen-ing and yelling preach in my own lonely house like a crazy old church lady!!

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:53:00 +0000

I’d like to add to the list, that unless you are a rapper, play a rapper on TV or movie, take out those cot dang cornrows!!!! More than likely you are gonna be asking some white man for a job, and he will take one look at you with those cornrows and think “ex-con or future con”. Go to the barbershop and get a decent cut along with bootleg DVDs, mixtapes, fake rolexes etc.

By: THE 78' MS. J

THE 78' MS. J — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:58:00 +0000

Two snaps that was excellent each one teach one.

By: THE 78' MS. J

THE 78' MS. J — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:58:00 +0000

Two snaps that was excellent each one teach one.

By: StillaPanther2

StillaPanther2 — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:03:00 +0000

Sister Thembi—excellant posting. In response to your allowance of further contribution to your post, young Black males could benifit greatly by having an older Black neigbor as a resource person. Me being 57 and a Black male, I have never been to prison nor experianced many negative encounters with the police, even though I have had my share of DWB and WWB (walking while Black), I have also gone thru a war, finished educational goals and have worked in the American system. I have the knowledge to know what will or will not work in Amerikka. The young Blacks now get a lot of social bagage from peers.. a sign of the absent of other resources. In my neighborhood young men refuse to even have basic greeting skills. The youngest should readily say “good morning, Mr. Armstrong” not me having to initiate,which could foster how to respect another Black man who in not in competition in any manner. Another thing, I feel the Black race should have a moritorium on competitive sports at all levels until our homocide and assault rate decrease. P.S. as a teen in the 60s I know these small things are now labeled “ole school” which connotate something that is passe’. Replace that phrase with “smart schooling” because that what got me/us here.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:11:00 +0000

Girl I gotta say I’m experiencing a bit of “Shock and Awe” after reading this guest post. On the one hand I completely agree with half the things AB has said about etiquette, eloquence, realistic goals, ambition and helping the community. But at the same time I don’t think what he had to say was so revelatory that you allowed him to espouse, as he admits, homophobic rhetoric and just plain rejection of self expression. Sitting next to your boys in the movies and cleaning up that uni-brow does not make you gay. Wearing bright colors is, in my opinion, a cross-cultural phenomenon dating back to my tribes and yours that I pride myself in embracing bright colors. For someone so insightful AB lost credibility in showing how trapped he is in his own prison of identity.

XO, Izzy — an ivy educated, professional gay man of color who enjoys wearing pencil jeans and bright colored sneakers once in a while

By: Thembi

Thembi — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:15:00 +0000

I could comment for days, but have to point out that I HAVE in fact overheard two dudes in the corner store decided what kind of Now & Laters to get. One of them refused “the blue ones” because he was “in the mood for fruit.”