Has anyone heard the quote “behind a good man there is a wonderful woman” I did, many times. In life, for men is so easy to say “I did this, I did that” kind of always excluding [women] “we”. But throughout history women always has been the men’s right hand and a lot of times the entire body. The women had always played the role of a big pillar, supportive and indestructible monument.
In the essay “The black Male; Searching Beyond Stereotype” by Manning Marable I could extract a big example when the author refers to black women as “Black Matriarchy” because they [black women] took care not only of their own family but the master’s one too, even though this “master” (like if they [black people] were animals) punished them for no legal reason and the black male were not husband or father type. The author statement “We have seen her love of her children, her commitment to the church, her beauty and dignity in her face of political and economic exploitation” shows how proud men are about women. But women are proud of men? Why would they [women] be? Because men were racist with women and didn’t even think that women needed rights; women fought for their rights like slaves fought for their freedom. Are men really that evil like Paul Theroux argued in his article “The Male Myth?” or is just that men’s masculinity is so strong that is impossible to describe our emotions towards women like Marable argued in his essay “The black Male; Searching Beyond Stereotype” so instead of that, men showed only resentment?. Black women were there to support black men against the unfair racist treatment they received, but black men didn’t respond to that action.
I agree with the author about black men and women should work together in order to accomplish their goals. If they want to conquest the future, they have to use their history as guidance.
In the essay “The black Male; Searching Beyond Stereotype” by Manning Marable I could extract a big example when the author refers to black women as “Black Matriarchy” because they [black women] took care not only of their own family but the master’s one too, even though this “master” (like if they [black people] were animals) punished them for no legal reason and the black male were not husband or father type. The author statement “We have seen her love of her children, her commitment to the church, her beauty and dignity in her face of political and economic exploitation” shows how proud men are about women. But women are proud of men? Why would they [women] be? Because men were racist with women and didn’t even think that women needed rights; women fought for their rights like slaves fought for their freedom. Are men really that evil like Paul Theroux argued in his article “The Male Myth?” or is just that men’s masculinity is so strong that is impossible to describe our emotions towards women like Marable argued in his essay “The black Male; Searching Beyond Stereotype” so instead of that, men showed only resentment?. Black women were there to support black men against the unfair racist treatment they received, but black men didn’t respond to that action.
I agree with the author about black men and women should work together in order to accomplish their goals. If they want to conquest the future, they have to use their history as guidance.
Now, black, white, male or female joke about our own behavior. For example there is a joke saying “Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember” or “A woman never forgets the man she could have had; a man, the woman he couldn’t”
I agree with your support for Marable's call to Black men and women working as allies rather than the former viewing the latter as emasculating, she-devils. But I don't recall Theroux pronouncing men to be evil? Remember there is a difference between men and masculinity. The jokes you include at the end, point to intresting stereotypes regarding gender. How do these jokes contribute to a maintenace of masculine stereotypes? feminine stereotypes?
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