Do Black Mothers Exploit Their Sons?
According to an article in Newsweek “College educated black women already earn more than the median for all black working men…Only 13.5% of young black females are high school dropouts whereas more than 17% of young black men are.” Black women have climbed America’s social economic ladder in strides in comparison to the black man. Economically speaking, black women can claim victory for remaining focused in an educational setting and working diligently in the work force to obtain managerial and professional positions. If we as black women can claim victory for moving ahead economically, we must be intelligent enough, wise enough and strong enough to claim defeat in raising our young black men. The black men that we are leaving behind do not belong to another race, culture or ethnic group. These men are not from mars or from across the sea. The men they we are leaving behind are our sons, brothers, cousins, uncles and fathers. These are the men who were raised in the same homes with u
