Black Men - Claim Your Manhood Save Your Families!

Hello Everyone!

I hope that you have been researching and learning more about your families. The new year has been a bounty for many of us. I know that you have found out some amazing things about your family. Some of these things are good and some are bad, some are big and some little. Some are funny and some are embarrassing. I also know that the pride you have felt about your family has grown. I also know that the pride of your whole family has grown and there has even been a change in some of your kids' attitudes. I hope that you have started to really see that the more you know about where you come from the more you can claim where you are. When you have a strong foundation it is easier to build and move into your future. A stronger family is in your future. A family strong enough to contribute to a strong community, to help build a strong nation! I know that you are starting to see how important it is to do these exercises with your family. You can start to see how important it is to your family's future. Go ahead, smile, you must be proud!

Up untill now I have been speaking to all that would listen. I would like everyone to stay on board whether man or woman, there is strength in us building our solutions together. With all due respect I would like to speak with more emphasis to our men. Our women must continue to participate for the obvious reason that if it were not for our women we would not have made it to today. It is past time, however, for our men to reclaim what has been taken and become what they haven't been for far too long. Men, it is time to start applying your new found knowledge to your life so that you can start to reclaim your rightful place. Your family's pride in you will begin to grow. To our women, please continue to use this series as a guide to raising your sons. I can only imagine how scary it must be to start raising real men again, instead of just teaching the lowly survival skills that we spoke of before.

Men, it is time to take up your responsibility and lead. Even if you are trying to lead, I challenge you to better yourself as a leader, father, and husband. Take some time out of your day to think about two things. One, what it is to be a Black man. Think about what a Black man has become through the ages compared to what he should be and why. Which Black man do you prefer? Second, what is true freedom? Explore every sense and meaning of the word. Do you really want true self determination? Do you really want the responsibility, not only for yourself but for everyone that you will become responsible for? Do you really want your manhood back? Think about it, do not play with this! You must be honest with yourself. Be man enough to step out of the way if you must. Let another man in your family take the responsibility, you can still help out. Again, you must be honest. It is bigger than you. It is bigger than me or any one man! The future of your family is at stake! Because we are all connected, our collective future is at stake! Don't mess it up for all of us, just come along for the ride. There are jobs enough to go around. Remember, we build a nation together.

The game plan of those that have oppressed us has always been brutally simple and right out in the open. It has been so simple and open that we didn't believe it. At least we didn't believe that it would work or could work as effectively as it has. Simply put; instill jealousy and mistrust into our relationships while the men and what it means to be a man is destroyed on every level. Jealousy and mistrust was done by denying us the truths about ourselves generation after generation. Truths are then replaced by lies that they needed us to believe in order to control us. Destroy the Man and you destroy the family. The Black man has become very dangerous to the oppressor. But not for the reasons you have been lead to believe. The reason Black men are so dangerous is that they build strong families. Not because they may one day commit justifiable homicide on the oppressor. The reason families are so dangerous to the oppressor is that strong families build strong communities, in this case, strong Black communities. A Nation is nothing but the sum of its communities. Strong Black communities would mean a strong Black nation! Wow, let's take a quick look at some of what a Strong Black Nation would mean to the oppressor and to Us! Economic Power! Political Power! Truthful respect of our collective Socio-economic Power. Even if the respect comes first through fear, a real respect of us as individuals. A Powerful Black Nation - real Black Power!!! This is what a strong Black man can do! Some of us remember how that power felt back when we were first discovered it in the 1950's, 60's, and 70's. Unfortunately, just as we were coming into our strength, a familiar set of divisive tools was deployed against us. The old tools of jealousy and mistrust were used along with the devil's pitchfork tool of drugs, specifically crack cocaine, flooding our community. We fell into the old traps and lost our communities, families, and men once again. It seems that we continually fail to teach the lessons to each new generation so they will be prepared to fight the fight and protect the progresses and gains that had been won by the Elders. We must commit as Black men to constantly teach so that the next generations will never be unprepared for the war that our people are in and have to repeat the same lessons of our history. Teach what you are learning to those around you, no matter who, but especially our children.

Your assignment is to teach others what you are learning about your family and its history. Learn more and teach more of our true Black History. Do not be afraid to point out the flat out lies and to speak the real truths. Remember that you are becoming a better and true man and that is what men do! Men do not need permission from anyone to lead themselves and their families to the truth. Be the leader! We will support and build each other up in this way. Next time we will start to use the strength of our past to draw the blueprints up for the future of your family. Be prepared to see your leadership skills grow. Show your manhood as those around you begin to turn their eyes toward you!

Sincerely,
The Mr. RAA