"Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research."
-Malcolm X
I was cruising the Black Interwebs last week when suddenly,
I happened across the following piece by one
Mr. Lincoln Blades, one of the newest class of
Black Relationship Experts out there on the scene today. Now, to be fair and to fully disclose:
me and Linc know each other, and to be honest, I like the guy. I wouldn't say we're best buds - we just know each other on Twitter - but we've chatted a bit back and forth, and we've retweeted each other a number of times. I'm all for another Brotha doing his thing, even when I find myself at odds with it; you see,
it's my view that there are far too many Black Men out there who pander to what Black Women Want To Hear, and far too few Black Men who are willing to assist Black Men where it matters most. Linc knows this, just like all the other Black Relationship Experts do, but...well, you see,
there's no money in assisting Black Men - and there's tons of money to be made in telling Black Women What They Want to Hear. There, I've said it - and if Linc values the late great Brother Minister Malcolm as much as he claimed in his article that he wrote for Uptown Magazine last week, about how
Black Men Don't Know How to Protect Black Women,
then he shouldn't have a mumbling word to say about the truth I just spoke above.
So, it should then come as no surprise, that such an article would appear by him; indeed, it's all par for the course among the "Good Black Men(TM) crowd. As I've made clear previously, the Black community, such as it is (more on this in a moment),
is no stranger to the Hugos of the world. You see, while there's no money to be made in actually helping and focusing on Black Men, there
IS money to be made in "shaming" them, because, again, it serves the Black Relationship Expert agenda, of telling Black Women What They Want to Hear; upbraiding Black Men puts money into the coffers of these people (the majority of whom, as the popular website
Single Black Male rightly identifies, are Black Men themselves).
Imagine, if you will, Mr. Blades writing this article:
"Why SHOULD Black Men "Protect" Black Women?" - and then proceeded to layout the following facts: