Woke up to a fresh batch of anti-Black misandry on here so it's time to put out some data and info to dispel the myths and disrupt the pathology.

Black Men, tap in to this thread.

The challenges facing Black men – and the case for action https://brook.gs/3pDOHhX  via @BrookingsInst

Analyzes:
- education
- employment
- earnings/labor force participation
- COVID-19 death rate

In 2019, 28% of Black men ages 25-29 had a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 30% of Black women, over 40% of white men, and nearly half of white women, according to the National Center of Education Statistics in 2019.

Black women and white women raised by low-income parents have similar rates of upward intergenerational mobility, measured in terms of their individual income as adults. Black men, by contrast, are much less likely than white men to rise up the income ladder.

"Black men have the highest unemployment rate of civilian non-institutionalized Black and white men and women over age 20, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There was a large race gap in unemployment (independent of gender) even before COVID-19 swept the U.S."

Women live longer than men, on average—but there are big race gaps, too. Life expectancy is lowest for Black men (among Black and white people), according the CDC National Center for Health Statistics, both at birth and at age 65.

Black men have been the most likely among Black and white Americans to die of COVID-19 at a rate 2.4 times that of white men, according to CDC data through July 2020.

"On many social and economic measures, Black men fare worse not only than white men, but white and Black women, as we show above."

Black men are “uniquely stigmatized,” according to studies of implicit bias conducted by political scientists Ismail White and Corrine McConnaughy: more than 40% of white respondents rank “many or almost all” Black men as “violent.”

As Rashawn Ray argues, “Black men have a different social reality from their black female counterparts,” he writes. “The perceptions of others influence black men’s social interactions with co-workers and neighbors [and] structure a unique form of relative deprivation.

Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education and incomes rise https://theconversation.com/black-men-face-high-discrimination-and-depression-even-as-their-education-and-incomes-rise-141027?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton via @ConversationUS

"Our research on the intersection of race and gender in the U.S. shows that while education and income reduce the risk of discrimination and depression for whites and Black women, this is not so for Black men."

...black men still face depression, which could stem from discrimination, even when they achieve traditional measures of success."

"Unfortunately for us all, it has primarily been the dead Black male body that drives our understandings of racism against Black men and boys in the United States. Yet racism stalks Black men every day of their lives..."

"The disproportionate struggles that successful Black men have with depression does not indicate their weakness, but instead their vulnerability, and how racism has vastly different consequences for them compared to black women and other groups."

Taking it to the People - Translating Empirical Findings about Black Men and Black Families through a Black Public Philosophy by the brilliant @DrTJC @afropuffz https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vvAMRRxIkaBLHWuCbXrrCK9MOGwBPk2-/view?usp=sharing

"...a Black public philosophy is needed to correct the spread of misinformation, racist propaganda, and ill-informed theorizations given to the public under the banner of the Black public intellectual."

"...the pathologization of Black men and boys has been identified by Elaine Brown as a 'new racism' which is particularly anti-[Black] male."

"...theories about Black men and boys are written from the perspective of those groups who interact with and interpret this group."

"The explanation for any behavior of Black men and boys that is outside the political morality of progressives or deemed undesirable is explained to be caused by patriarchy, misogyny, or hyper-masculinity."

"Black males remain as objects - the phobias of other groups' imagination."

on intimate partner violence

Stuart Hall on why identity cannot be trusted as the foundation of cultural studies

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What is Black Male Studies? https://twitter.com/MakonnenTendaji/status/1327673986096893952?s=20

The Political Economy of Niggerdom: W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr. on the Racial and Economic Discrimination of Black Males in America
By Adebayo Ogungbure

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https://twitter.com/MakonnenTendaji/status/1326323480745267200?s=20

Dr. Tommy J. Curry on Black Male Patriarchy

A thorough historical breakdown of feminism and the ways in which sex/gender, the vote, and patriarchy were conceptualized across generations.

Dr. Tommy J. Curry on the myth of Black male privilege and violence


“When we don’t look at the Black community from a sociological standpoint…we retreat into these very problematic assumptions that Black men themselves are the problem.”

Dr. Tommy J. Curry
The Eschatological Dilemma: The Problem of Studying the Black Male Only as the Deaths That Result From Anti-Black Racism (2015) https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ch_flAI3Ph5Xgtab3TnKgVe_P-3JywF/view?usp=sharing

"The erasure of the Black male from philosophical and conceptual study is... a deliberate attention to
the need to displace/eliminate the realities of Black men’s deaths..."

"some authors have begun referring to poor Black male youth as 'disconnected,' and economically doomed since 'long-term disconnection correlates highly with low-income family backgrounds but also with poor future economic prospects..."

"Because we do not understand the actual, we conceptualize the imagined, and remain trapped in the imagined narrative of Black masculinity, rather than viewers invested in the complexities of Black male life."

"The Black male is not a naturally born male, sexed and
raced with particularity, but raced and sexed peculiarly..."

"What would a world of living Black male subjects look like?"

"Western humanity, the humanity politically asserted upon the death of Black men and boys, is anti-Black."

Anti-Black Misandry, defined.