“Soft Genocide” And Black Male Femininity?

“Soft Genocide” And Black Male Femininity?

This topic is not of particular interest to me. However, 13 people now have forwarded me the same attached Pan African Alliance article. They want me to say something about it. So, here it is.

In many cases, Brothers and Sisters who complain about the feminization of Black males are people with anti-female or women attitudes they don’t realize they have. Acting “female” is the objection here. Patriarchy has been hell on women and girls, and this hell has often been shared with feminine males and males uninterested in sporting what I call industrial-strength Black male drag, or intentionally dressing and acting like a “man.” An already traumatized people made self-conscious by anti-Black racism, Black folks can be hyper concerned about how each other show up in public (and even in private). Black males walking around publicly (and on TV) in make-up have made some Black people highly upset.

Unfortunately, expression of this upset-ness is often uninformed, abusive and never courageous enough to address it rationally. As a result, in instances, the Black community has become a pool of mistreatment on one side of the matter, rebellion and frustration on the other.

Black males who are rejecting “traditional” gender demands, sometimes including their own male body, are on the rise.

Ironically, Black males rejecting traditional male aesthetics, wearing make-up, clothing, and colors – typically referred to as “female,” are accused of being “soft genocide” pawns for White sources. While it is true that Black folks live in a hostile, racist, White supremacy myth laden, patriarchal society, with elements that take every opportunity to minimize, compromise and even feminize Black males, most of the actual “soft genocide” is coming from within the Black population.
What can occur when even the most “manly” of Black males is too incompetent or intimidated to confront his real enemy, is him attacking those closest in proximity, Black women, feminine Black males or Black males who refuse to “act” like a man and just want to be a human being.

Black males in the U.S. have faced disfiguring emasculation, feminization, and terror in a White, male, patriarchal monster led nation. The perceived lack of Black male power, simultaneous to State murder and fatal attacks by George Zimmerman types have traumatized Black folks, leaving many weary about Black male capacity to be “men.” There is lots of compensatory and contrived Black “male” behavior being passed off as strong Black male behavior; that is madness and a complete act.

There are a few Black males with large social media platforms who are a “strong Brotha” act. No less an act or performance than the Black male who wears so-called women’s clothing. Except, the Brother in industrial-strength Black male drag tends to be more desperate to prove himself a man, sometimes to the point of abuse, violence, and occasionally even murder – usually of someone else Black. This is who tends to be the pawn committing the “soft-genocide” of Black people. Not the feminine “dude.”

Black people need to begin deconstructing and addressing what we have been through, and do more internal work and reconciliation. This would be more beneficial to us than staying hung up on White people being White people. Including their redundant “racism” problem.
 It would be a lot more difficult for any external source to practice soft or hard genocide on Black people if we were less dysfunctional and fragmented. And, more in the process of rational problem solving, engagement, and compassion. Regardless of how we dress, or our gender or relevant presentation, we are all living in the same anti-Black society.

Among Pan Africans, many who have never been to “Africa” themselves, please check out the attached images of modern African males practicing very ancient acts of wearing make-up. They are quite beautiful.