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Imma explain to y’all that the movie baby boy had a way deeper meaning than y’all think
Literally the movie was called baby boy for a reason. To show how SOME grown black men refuse to grow. They literally act like little kids and are dependent on everyone around them. Emphasized how calling their house a crib. Relying on their moms and partners are normalized—
Behaviors in the community. Black men are taught from birth that black women (moms & spouses) are their rock. They are taught to act childlike and black women will always rescue or be there for them but they emphasized in the movie he acted like a BABY BOY
It’s not always their fault. The damaging affects of slavery and incarceration plus government programs held the black man down for a very long time. They never had a true sense of family. They’ve been having their masculinity stripped for years
People think having your masculinity stripped means you act gay. NOOO. Having your masculinity stripped from you means you act like a child in adolescence
In slave times black men never got to keep their family. Protect them or raise them. They were forced to sleep with multiple slaves to reproduce more kids. They never got a chance to embrace the sense of family and being a man
Then you move on. After slavery black men are still forced to take care of their family but still thru share cropping etc. still having to rely on someone for survival for life
And in Jim Crow days black men caught it the worse. Not to mention that a lot of them couldn’t find decent work. While their wives were maids. Nurses and watching kids. They were struggling to keep work and compete with white men in factories etc. it gave them less hope.
Personally I still think the 80’s war on drugs and mass incarceration had the BIGGEST affect on black men. Honestly they were taken off the streets for any little thing and put in jail for years. Their families alone. And what did the women and children do while they were gone ??
Some black women got hooked on drugs. But most black women got on government assistance which said you can not receive it if you have a man in the household ! So now when the black man gets out of jail his own family isn’t there for him
He can’t get a job. Because he’s a felon. He can’t vote. He has probation hanging over his head and now he has no other option but to fall back into the same lifestyle. Getting him locked up and leaving his sons with no positive role model
So now you have a bunch of sons with no fathers. See I’m a black woman. And honestly we look to our moms as an example. And most likely our moms take care of us. Get educated and work hard. That’s what we seen. That’s what we copied
Black men had no place in the world so us as black women feel sympathy. We feel sorry for them. Their moms had no man to help so they sheltered their sons. Protected them to the point it was toxic. Crippling them. Making them act like baby boys who make excuses for everything
And in turn they don’t respect us cause we let everything slide. And we make excuses and we cripple them. We seen first hand how the world treated them ! So we coddle them. That’s literally what Jody and Yvette’s relationship was showcasing.
And we were taught to idolize that because THATS ALL WE KNOW
Now we are trynna tell the spoiled coddled. Crippled black man that he needs to change and we are confused as to why there’s so much resistance. Weening a child off the titty is a difficult task. It can take forever. So we can’t expect black men to change cause we said so
They have to want change. The black woman got educated and went out and learned because we HAD TOO. Our moms weren’t coddling us. They pushed us and made us grow tf up.
Black men have to take responsibility. They have to be accountable for their own lives and own education and own FREEDOM. We have to sit this one out ladies. This is THEIR fight. They have to get it on their own
