Dr. Umar Defends Black Women’s Gender Roles From Podcasters

Dr. Umar Johnson cleared away the narrow-minded speaking factors made by hosts of the Every day Rap Up Crew podcast about Black girls’s roles.

Extra particularly, the Pan-African psychologist spoke to the causes and penalties of many Black girls’s hyper-independent roles of their households and communities. Whereas Dr. Umar passionately promoted Black love, he highlighted that Black girls are incorrectly and disproportionally held accountable for the poor choice pool of male suitors introduced to them. Dr. Umar additionally famous that the accountability has been unfairly placed on Black girls to lift sturdy Black males into ideally suited bachelors.

“On the finish of the day, if I’m going to name myself a person, the final word accountability for the reconstruction of the Black neighborhood rests with me,” he said. “Sure, they [Black women] have a job. Sure, they’ve accountability. However as a person — as a pacesetter — to say ‘I can’t repair this shit except she modifies’ — that’s not the definition of a person.”

When one of many podcast’s hosts retorted, they requested whether or not Black males are obligated to cope with “masculine” Black girls who’ve youngsters with different males. Dr. Umar promptly interjected and emphasised that there are systemic explanation why many Black girls are within the place they’re in.

“Why is she masculine? As a result of she needed to increase the youngsters alone, I’m telling you, errors made by Black males systemically gave rise to the situations that allowed her to be masculine and made her find yourself with a person that you just take into account to be lower than he needs to be. And I’m telling you, Black males are accountable for her being masculine as a result of we’ve not helped her increase them youngsters.”

Dr. Umar referred to as it “insensitive” and “disingenuous” to criticize Black girls for a way they’ve held down the Black neighborhood for many years — even when imperfectly.

“The Black girl has been the be-all, end-all in our neighborhood for half of a century, and now we need to flip round and say she didn’t do it completely sufficient or remained female sufficient when she needed to take in our obligations plus her personal.”

The Professional-Black activist famous that individualism and a sufferer mindset prevented Black males from mentoring Black male youths and subsequently strengthening the Black neighborhood. He clarified that Black males wanted to have a vested curiosity within the success of Black boys outdoors of those they’ve familial connections to.

Elsewhere within the debate, Dr. Umar additionally raised a vital eye to the rise of gender wars between Black women and men. He constantly emphasised that girls shouldn’t be held solely accountable for the poor relationship pool that Black males have subjected them to.

“And we’re complaining concerning the girls who’re making infants with the irresponsible males that we [Black men] didn’t increase appropriately. That’s bullshit! That’s wimp-ass, weak man shit! Take accountability for our shit. Cease scapegoating them [Black women].”

See clips from the heated debate beneath. 

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