Honor Thy Father And Mother - 'I Ain't Got No Father', But White Men Are Black Sexual Wannabees At Heart

No one asks 'Who's your Daddy' in Anacostia, one of Washington, DC's most dysfunctional inner cities because few people know.  The out-of-wedlock rate of the overall black population in America is seventy (70) percent, and the rate is even higher in ghettoes like Anacostia. 

Progressive sociologist Peterson Link of Duke University has noted that this statistic, as troublesome as it may seem to many, is simply the changing of the guard, in line with the radical reconfiguration of sexuality:

The American Black male, still much maligned as a social deviant, fathering children willy-nilly and taking no responsibility for them, is in fact part of a shifting of American culture.  What we have learned from the repositioning of sexuality, placing different options on a sliding gender spectrum, applies to a much wider realm.  

Just as transgender couples can live happily, productively, and harmoniously in a marriage without children; and just as feminists have challenged the very role of men and found them irrelevant to the modern sexual dynamic, so the Black family can do without fathers.  It is the social paradigm.  As usual and expected, the Black man leads the way towards a new, more essential world

Fr. James Herlihy, writing in Journal of the Holy See, has taken exception to his notion, arguing strongly that the nuclear family, the family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, has been the cornerstone of civilization since its beginning, the social foundation on which all larger social institutions are modeled.  'The family,' said Father Herlihy, 'represents respect, honor, discipline, love, compassion, and sharing - an indispensable unit; and once it is disassembled, the rest of society will follow.'

There is one fact overlooked by these spokesmen of opposing opinions - most white men are black wannabees.  They feel tethered to a social-religious construct which denies the natural biological imperative - to spread their seed - tied to one old woman for decades in a spiritless, empty marriage while longing for sexual release. 

White men are stymied by some abstract Judeo-Christian ethic while the black man, in touch with his tribal past, roams free.  However much such sexual abandon might threaten white society, it is simply the ethos and central principle of the black community.  What it would be like to have ten baby mommas and their children everywhere! 

 

This approach-avoidance syndrome generates  both white jealous hatred, and indifference to inherent social dysfunction. 

Pharoah Jones was the Anacostia kingpin, a man of influence, unchallenged authority, and the model for African American success.  He was the head of a major drug distribution operation that had defied FBI and DEA investigation for years.  He had gone from marijuana to cocaine and heroin to Fentanyl and made millions all safely secured in offshore Aruban banks.  He had homes in Barbados, St. Juan, and of course in his home base on Martin Luther King Avenue, a fifteen-room mansion complete with Venetian marble, South African gold, Persian rugs, and French crystal.  

He had bought all in one package, thanks to his purveyor and confidant LaShonda Perkins.  She like Bernard Berenson who assembled an eclectic collection of the best of the world's art for Isabela Stewart Gardner, went on a shopping spree the likes of which the black community had never seen. His home in the heart of Anacostia was a fitting residence for such a successful man. 

The home and its rich trappings were only one jewel in the crown,  His harem of black beauties was an even larger, brighter one. It rivaled any of Sultan Ahmed, the Ottoman emperor, the kings of the Gupta and Mauryan empires, and the Persian shahs.  The harem was not just his due for success, it was the symbol of black manhood. While the man on the street could not have a private bevy of women, he could have as many as he wanted, the more the better.  It was the black man's legacy and privilege. 

'Shameless', said Archer Lane, DD and pastor of the Westmoreland Church of Christ, the most widely-attended church in one of Washington's most solidly white, working class neighborhoods. While his colleagues in Bethesda and Chevy Chase preached about the new, inclusive zeitgeist and the coming utopian black brotherhood of man, Lane hammered on about Biblical injunction, fidelity, the Flight to Egypt, and the absolute sanctity of marriage and the nuclear family. 

Anything else was 'savage', he said - a thinly-veiled reference to black sexual abandon - and must be tamed, brought within the fold, to sail on the mainstream, to be moored in a civilized harbor. 

Yet Lane was one of these men who dreamt of the lovely Amanda Wright, the young woman with the angelic voice singing in the front row of the choir; or Mrs. Harper Blanding, newly widowed at forty-five, lusciously plump and ripe for picking; or...

Here he stopped himself.  This closeted sexual desire was distracting, diverting him from Jesus; and yet there it was, undeniable, niggling, and impossible to ignore.  Savage those black men might be, but oh, how he wished he could guiltlessly cavort like them!

Pharoah Jones admired the so-called Big Men of Africa - Mobuto, Idi Amin, Bokassa, Kagame, and all the rest - men of limitless power and unlimited women.  As autocratic as they might be, they were drawn from the same stock as the common man for whom sexual activity, diversity, and regularity was the norm. Pharoah likened himself to the Big Men.  Both ruled with power and authority. Both enjoyed the wealth and prestige they deserved, both had harems of beautiful women, and the men they ruled were as devotedly sexual as they. 

The Great Cultural Divide - it is no less than a chasm in America.  Yes, the ghetto is a crime-ridden, drug-addled place with prison time more common than playtime; where unemployment, truancy, and social indifference are the rule not the exception. However, the real difference between white and black America is the baby mommy syndrome; and while white conservatives insist that it is at the heart of social dysfunction, neither progressives nor black leaders disclaim it.  A cultural issue say inclusivity activists.  Whatever, say men on MLK Avenue. 

Such progressive idealism would be tenable if this 'cultural integrity' remained in bounds; but when fatherless teenagers riot, go out in the streets in packs, and extend violence into white communities, its premise is challenged. 

Billions of dollars have been poured into the inner cities with relatively little impact.  Intended to provide assistance to black families and help them rise up from poverty and out of trouble, it has only entitled them with no accountability.  No one especially black community leaders have demanded that inner city communities man up, take responsibility, join the mainstream, and be American.  So, the social disfunction, fatherless children and baby mommas are both endemic problems and larger social ones.  The social disorder spread from the ghetto to the larger community is a function of this social dysfunction. 

Live and let live is simply not tenable; but it will take decades to erase the notion entirely and insist on the introduction of white, middle class morality.  The ethos is both solidly entrenched in the black community and fostered and promoted by white liberalism.  A perfect storm.