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10 MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES

10 MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES


10 most important issues that we Black men must contend with during these trying times:

1. Our misogynoir conditioning

2. The feelings we catch when Black women point out our misogynoir conditioning.

3. The excuses we make for our misogynoir conditioning.

4. The flack, trolling, gaslighting and body shaming we inflict on Black women due to our misogynoir conditioning.

5. The authority we think we have over their pain due to our misogynoir conditioning.

6. Using our own immense hurt as a shield 🛡 to cover up how we ignore theirs due to our misogynoir conditioning.

7. Stop reinterpreting Scripture to justify our own evil desires and greed (which is idolatry). We Black men are in one of the best positions to let go of the precepts defined by our oppressors.

If I were a gladiator in Rome, I would not strive to be victorious over my fellow captors but to escape the Arena entirely.

Or in more modern history, don’t strive to go from the field to the house, but look to run away. And also run away from the

tier system regarding genders. This evil cannot be blamed squarely on the white man since it existed millennia before

colonialism and western slavery. It started with our free will and by our free will we can choose another path.

We think we are alone but we are not alone. There are many throughout who had never even heard of the concept of war.

True spirituality needs to be discerned. For me, that comes through prayer, fasting (a practice that I’ve only recently restarted, I’m ashamed to say), and meditation.

There are so many things that I’ve learned in the past few decades - especially concerning my misogynoir conditioning alone - that if I opened my mouth fully, I would never be able to shut it again.

8. Repenting of our misogynoir conditioning. If I have a map 🗺 showing points A, B and C, and the goal is C but I’m at A,

believing that I’m at B, then I’m guaranteed to either miss the mark or overshoot. First rule of direction is to acknowledge where I’m at; even if that acknowledgement says I’m lost.

9. Firing ALL of the white cops from elsewheres patrolling and brutalizing Black spaces and training and hiring within with mandates from the community itself, thereby eliminating 95% of our newsfeed in the process.

10. Everything else.

Can’t wait ‘til we have our own media. Everything changes.

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