Phrat Blackwatch:
Again, you hit the proverbial nail right onto the "hands" and "feet"...
And you said something that I had forgotten: To save our boys and men of African descent is to grounded in "love"--in the truest sense...
Now that dennotative definition of love has to be transcendent--the kind of love that becomes the true essence of the Spirit.
However, to get to that point, requires a "blood sacrifice"--usually. Someone or some people are going to have to die, needlessly for the Ethereal to respond or invocation to reach and change hearts...
That is just one way it could happen. There may be plenty others. We can define and redefine, but what is practical?
The flip side of this debate is who is rearing these boys into physical men--albeit behaviorally deemed in this society as dysfunctional? More often than not, it is "babies raising babies" or "grandma with a bunch a kids dropped off by absent and neglectful parents"... Grandma may be too old to handle what soceital pressures go on today and does the best she can with what she has. Maybe she cannot do anymore--so what should we have expected?
The other issue is little girls having babies in the worst kind of conditions. Namely, what 12 year old really will know to have prenatal care? And if it is bad for Black boys, how far behind are Black girls? Just 5 years from now, Black girls will catch up, too...
Stopgap measurements: some say is "early childhood development" programs--all cut by the current US administration and somewhat before.
The study has just summarily written off an entire generation. And that is what I find that sucks about this situation...
Meanwhile, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America celebrates 100 years of its existance...
Go figure...