How do you feel when you
get in your car for a normal ride to run errands for the family? Ideally, you
should make this quick journey with no fret of your eventual return. But as a
black male, nothing we do, not do, or perceived have done is viewed like
another male on the planet. Our ordinary is not ordinary. Our lives are always
threaten while performing the simplest of task.
Is it of a fault of our own? Is it a curse or is it a blessing in
disguise? However it is, it’s a feeling that the black male has daily no matter
his socioeconomic, educational level, geographic location, or even
chronological age. The only proven way to escape has been through our eventual
demise. A concept we don’t willing run to, but unconsciously have succumbed to.
As a black male, I have lived with the internal adage of not
becoming another statistic that will negatively effect my brothers all over the
world. Every robbing spree, drug bust, championship, domestic violence, murder,
election, or scandal where the leading character is a black male, all of us are
subjected to that positive or negative badge. Even if we have the
misunderstanding that we have so -called escaped because we have attained some
level of success as an individual, it is impossible to escape what you are
linked to by fate.
Now what! In the quiet of our being, we must understand who and
what we are individually and collectively. Now what do we do about it. In this
book, Confessions of a Black Male, we will have a candid conversation to begin
the dialogue that is necessary for our existence, sustenance, and success.
Confessions of a Black Male
Coming Soon, February 1,
2013
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