..........Honest opinions on this.

I know this might sound like an obvious question to most of you. But I really would like to know how you feel on this.

I mean is it a Black Man's responsibility to protect Black women and children, regardless whether he's blood related to them or not.

Do Black Women BELONG to Black Men?

Do they need our protection as men and do they want it?

And is it sexist or patriarchal to think this way?

What I'm trying to find out is do Black Men have a default obligation to Black Women if they are being taken from them? I'm not trying to start an IR(iterracial) debate but would like your comments on this.


IMHO. I believe that we do (as men). I'm not trying to relegate women as property but I sense there is this level of accountability that we have to our women no matter what.

Well a short and simple answer which is...YES.



One just needs to look at the birmingham rape case of the little innocent girl by those big clan of young asian males!!!!!!! just look at how all the black community (young males) getting involved taking on the street to find justice. This just shows that when it comes down to it us black men do protect are women. S-T-A-N-D-A-R-D.

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We have the responsibility to protect our women...to protect our community, but they are not our property...that is part and parcel our problem. We don't treat them as our mates, as our partners...we treat them as something to be owned....property.

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If you mean taken by force....I agree, it is a MANS responsibility toprotect a WOMAN...if you mean taken because black "American" women are fed up with being treated like trash, treated like garbage, used, abused, walked out and thrown away....no, its not our responsibility or our right. If we want to keep our women we do so by how we treat them. Do we treat them with respect and honor.

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Do simply how we treat them but how we treat our children, and how we treat ourselves....

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We fail.

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Black women have no become the protectors and leaders of not only our communities but our homes. The effect is loosing our children.

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Let me put it into scope

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  Despite representing only 8.6 percent of public-school enrollments, black boys comprise 22 percent of those expelled from school and 23 percent of those suspended.

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  While between 25 percent and 30 percent of America's teenagers, including recent immigrants, fail to graduate from high school with a regular high-school diploma, the dropout rate for African American males in many metropolitan areas is 50 percent.

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  Nationally, 50 percent of black males (as compared with 61 percent of black females, 80 percent of white males and 86 percent of white females) receive diplomas with their high-school cohort. In some urban districts, 30 percent of black males are in special-education classes, and of the remaining 70 percent, only half or fewer receive diplomas.

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  For whites under 18, 105 out of every 100,000 are incarcerated; for black youths the rate is three times as high, 350 per 100,000. More black males receive the GED in prison than graduate from college.

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  According to the 2000 census, the percentage of black youths 16 to 19 neither employed nor in school was 24.7 percent, nearly twice the national average for this age group and six times the national unemployment rate.

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Failure of black men.......

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...and we talk about wanting to protect black women. HA HA HA! It is they who are protecting us.

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Pathetic ain't it?

Blackchild i think its important topic u raised...... i think we do hav 2 protect our woman 2 sum degree. But 2 much protection can be bad...

Women have the right to pursue their lives in the way they want. Some traditions take "protection" too far to include domestic abuse etc. Women are not children, but some traditions would like them treated as such.

Lets face it, our women are not under some big threat, at least not one that we can do anything about. Most black women are probably in better off positions that males, therefore they call the shots--and rightly so.

In this sense women may be offended at the assumption that they need mans help.

Are my eyes deceiving me or is this Parris...brothat you're stiill alive...well that's good...long time no see.