Actually he'strying to mesh two different characteristics into one and the same, so he's doing exactly what all the Black Women Haters out there do where African American Women are concerned.  

African American women do have plenty to be angry about, and do have the right to express that anger just as any other women have the right to express whatever it is that they are angry about.  

This reads like, yet another psych job out there that is really designed to wear African American women's resistance down against being used, abused, played, discriminated against and dismissed as the unworthy nothing and nobodyracist propaganda and America's racist propaganda machine has been trying [and evidently succeeding] to brand Black women/African American women as.

There are Black women out there that are unnecessarily angry, but since being a person who is unnecessarily or overly angry isa trait found some women of any race and is alsoa trait found in men, men of any race, why is it that only Black/African American women are being singled out for this branding?  

African American women are the women in America that are most likely to stand up for themselves, go to bat for their children, with or without a husband/man, stand up to racism.  

In situations that often are those which would make any normal person angry, don't fabricate the mythology and racist stereotyping that there has to be something wrong with the Black/African American woman, that if she shows the natural anger regarding it, or that she is an angry woman or an angry Black woman.  

It is a gross exaggeration to label and brand all Black/African American women as being angry because there may be some out there that are unnecessarily angry for no apparent reason, and it is dirty and a disservice to African American women to relegate their legitimate complaints,frustrations, and determination to not be used, played, insulted and dismissed  down to unwarranted anger.

  You know the very thing was said to me from a professor friend of mine simply cuz I was discussing the angst of traditional pederasty and homosexuality in America's prisons. military and schools.  He asked "why do you HATE men?"  I was stunned....not surprised at his question cuz he KNOWS me....knows my family, my mate.  But later he told me he said that because I was correct in the findings on the subject we were conversating about[I know convo is not a word....but] and he didn't have too much of an agrument.  Sometimes MEN [sometimes women] like to debate not because of "fear" so much but because of "truth."  Many men do not wanna deal with this issue head on.  And so they will try to argument you down thinking if they wear you out...it becomes their truth.  Not!  Especially not with me. 

And I think labeling women as angry is easy for men cuz they do not have to deal with the fact that traditionally many of 'em have NOT taken the role of caring for their families as men....head of household and male mentor for sons, nephews etc seriously.  They have historically abandoned their families tooooooo quickly and left the women to deal with its aftermath.  So really they don't wanna look "truth" in the eyes because...and this is what I've discussed before...they don't have the "proper" patriarachal [gaze] training to do so.  It wasn't given to them as with other culture of men....leaving this role to black women to act as men and women in their families.

This gaze is important to enforce power and authority.  Black men actually haven't had a lot of "training" in that area and so instead of learning about it-it's easier to abandon responsibility and easier adapting to the role of "child" or rebel in the family to keep from participating in the role of patriarch.  But!  I understand.  Cuz this role doesn't belong in black culture.  Our bi-archal gazing which include both male and female EQUALLY- was snatched from us during the onset of slavery and replaced with the role of inferiority.  And as it evolved through the years in this country....the role for our men have been left with a LARGE gap.  And it is this GAP that has infuriated black women.  A lotta black men in the past preferred to take the role of pimps, womanizers, gangstas, players, "beating" the "man" which overlapped the"few" black men who ARE/were trying to tie together what they thought is form of "family" of sorts.  But!  It hasn't been successful cuz the GAP is still there.  And so since we are a broken culture per se.....I guess I would be pissed out at some black men too who refused to glue things back in unity despite MASSA.  I  would also put up my hand to prevent them from getting close. 

So for me....I don't think it's FEAR...(fear of what?)...I think it's more weariness than anything.  Cuz for far tooooo long black women has had to carry the weight while black men selfishly enter long prison sentences, take part in behavior that will get them in prison or murdered, kill each other for territory not theirs...and black men who continue to live in an illusion that they rule the streets while sinking into drugs and alcohol to numb their feelings of inadequatecy[sp].  How about just starting to rule your culture by being the leaders in your family first?  But they can't.  Cuz that too has been snatched from them.    Many of em DON'T know how.   So it is the fear of  black women who give birth male babies thinking that these ] black males will continue repeating this self-genocide trend brought in place by those brothas from our past.  And to me that will make ANY one angry black or otherwise.  But!

great article!!!  I'm sending this to the printer right now!!  thanks for posting

* Alot of what you said simply isn't true, but let's talk about the article.....I think the article is a generalization, as any article would have to be with a topic such as this.  We all know ANGRY Black women...all of us.  This is a MAJOR problem for those who have to deal with them.  I, personally, have gone out of my way to avoid women like that in my professional, personal, and family life.  I literally "head for the hills" with a quickness (something I HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE!!!)  More to the point, the brother was just expressing his thoughts on a group that doesn't seem to have an understanding of how their anger/antics are received.  I have been reading Mr. James for sometime now and I feel that he truly loves Black women and is seeking to respectfully dialogue, but this article will not reach its mark of getting to those that need it. 

 Brotha RR wrote: 

++I will have to disagree with you here. Men will deal with the topic head on, but as you might imagine, women don't want to hear the male point of view on many topics...that's why Steve Harvey's books have sales in the three to four million ranges. This also is the reason why Tyler Perry movies are so successful. Black Women are big fans of pandering.

Well...of course you're gonna say this my brotha because you are MALE.  And can't possibly think like a woman.  And there lies the problem. Steve Harvey's may be popular with some young women...but! I disagree with some of assessment and this MAN has been married THREE times. So...And the third with having an affair while still being married to his two. So...anything he has to say on this subject in my view is premediated.

+++But many women are childless and manless AND still angry about that....you can't blame solely for her anger. Black Men have been caring for their families...before 1964...I'll get the real reasons why so many Black women are angry at the bottom of this reply...just you wait....

This is correct my brotha.  Many women are childless generationally. Let's look at that. Generationally. So this means this behavior has been passed from father to son to father to son...get me?

++Doesn't belong in Black Culutre?? huh??

I'm sorry my brotha. This is a psychological term to depict the power and authority of who is in control within the dynamic of culture. Just like Native Americans and Indigenous people in South America, Australia and the Islands....their culture [once] lead by the Marticarch...the female.  In other societies such as Europe and Asia, the culture is lead by the male. And so in our culture it was a mutual and shared power system by both male and female. This dynamics collapsed during the invasion of the Hyksos in Egypt.  Dyntasies before Arab and European slavery.  Because we were forced to adapt to the partiarchal system of ruuning our household and lives...it has  been MET with difficulty ever since. Now the Native American could adapt cuz 95% of their culture were destroyed.  So the 5% left had little problem accepting a new way of living cuz it was a matter of life and death.  But us? Not so much. We are still having difficulty and it is because of what I explained above.  In otherwords, it is not in our DNA.

+++Some good points, but I think you aren't getting to the meat of the matter...it's deeper than that though!!!

Yes it is deeper than that.  It is because this issue is generational. And if you look back in our history in this country, you will see it.  It is hard doing so in today's world and present black male mentality cuz the brothas have created their own reasoning to deal with what have been done for their family unit.  A lotta of it isn't their fault. But once you know, it's your responsibility to do better.  And that haven't happed enough to make a real difference in our culture.  If it had, it wouldn't be  as many brothas in prisons and trying to hold control over streets clearly not their own.

+++But these prison and street dudes are RARELY without a woman in their lives?? Please explain?

Oh you're saying that the brothas in prison have women? You can't be thinking of prison wives? Tell me you're not...please?   That's a whole DIFFERENT story.  And those brothas in the streets and in prison are primarily USING women for their financial benefit.  No?  Okay.  Maybe I should be MORE clear....I'm not referring to hoodrats i.e. thugs and criminals per se...I am talking about Black men who before they go to prison or turn to the streets for self-identity have chosen not to deal with the deep issues in their family dynamics.

++After reading what you wrote, I didn't see any personal responsibly from the women for their anger. When will Blk women take personal responsibility for their life (bad) choices?

This really isn't a "blame game" my brotha.  More of what went wrong with our culture as a whole.  Massa has created that blame game scenrio for a distraction away from the psychological system he created for our continued failure. You don't see this my brotha? That's where crabs in the barrell phase came from.

Do you know that there are many Blk women that are in college that date men in prison and on the street...as a PREFERENCE(why not date a military man or a man in college?).

The bad boy persona has been implemented in American culture since the Jewish and Italian mafia during the Great Migration. So again this is generational. Can't express why women are lured by the bad boy image. It could be a mirroring of their own discretion and self-identifiy flaw. I dunno.

One of the major issues that Blk women are having right now in relationships are related to their preference to date down (I WANT A THUG/STREET NINJA)and daddy issues (Momma "You daddy aint ISH!" and "All Blk Men aint ISH"). This leads to the anger issues (nasty attitude) and self fulfilling prophecy, as far as I can tell from my experiences and apparently most other brothers out there!!!. This phase is usually followed by the babymomma phase (age variable due to the teen mothering that is rampant right now in the hood...among hood people...that term is just for you sunnubian!!) where the single mother has an even worse time of male interaction because alot of the available dudes that are progressive and prosperous usually avoid women with ready made families and babydaddy baggage. This long time phase, which is a very long due to the moms need to think she can be the "mother and the father" for her kids, is followed by the extra bitter damaged woman who has been manless unless she like dating homeless men.

I agree. This is a set up for failure...but! Women don't see it while they are participating in it. They do not have the ability to see outside of it. It is a form of immaturity and a lot of folks are guilty of that including massa and his children. So. This is NOT exclusive to us however.

The main reason for the urban breakdown of the black family is directly related to welfare policies which require black father leave the home for the benefits to kick in. This "safety net" was soon basterdized into a "single mom empowerment" tool This began in 1964/5. prior to that the Blk family was strong. this later led to the .creation of dirty hood people and hoodrats. We are at a critical mass and this setup will soon explode (cuts i funding have already begun).

The inital reason for welfare was for white families during the depression and then later it was discovered that America could control black people's progress by separating men from the women in an effort to delay or prevent social advancement in black culture.  I have news for you my brotha, the black gangsta was in the streets during zoot suit days of Malcolm X and before. So the scene you are describing has been around since and before the 1920s.

My advice to black women that want better resuts...stop dating down, dont be afraid of a brother that has his ISH together, seek counseling to resolve any anger/nasty attitude/daddy issues, and know that a man seeks peace of mind with his lady (I did say LADY...not babymomma...girlfriend..or woman....LADY is the key!!!)

I agree that counseling is the key....but! It is the key for BOTH black men and women. Both have anger issues toward each other. And both are blindsided by the white propaganda that has been implemented in our culture since the civil war. We need to lay everything on the table and refrain from using the "blame game." That is a social TOOL that massa has used against us since slavery.  So if brothas wanna continue to say that black women are just angry for no other reason than being upset that they cannot find a decent black man or if black women are gonna continue to say that it's black men's fault that we are not as advanced in keeping up with the joneses or not staying with them or  whatever the "trend blame" today, then we are NEVER ever gonna settle this.  And while we are still fighting each other and not paying attention, other cultures are gonna slip behind us and take WHAT is OURS[they are doing it NOW).  They are gonna benefit from what our forefathers/mothers have died for all the while we are standing blaming and accussing.  And that within itself is a social and cultural tragedy.  But!

I think that men who actually believe that all Black women are angry are men who really don't know too many Black women, or they are just jumping on the hate-on-Black-women bandwagon merely because they have happened to run into a Black woman or some Black women that are unduly angry.  

When you put a blanket statement like into true context, you see that it is impossible to actually know what approximately 25Million females are thinking or what the attitude of approximately 25Million females is, and any statement that claims to know for a fact is in truth just making a blanket judgement call that really amounts to no more than stereotyping.  

As I inferred earlier, Black women are no more angry than any other women.  People that make blanket stereotypes like that of Black women some are people that really don't know enough women of other races or know enough women of other races on a personal level to know that it is not just Black women that are angry or are not afraid to express their anger.  

There is this mythology that has been created by the Hollywood/media arms of the American propaganda machine that displays Black women as angry while displaying other women as gentle or indifferent or not angry, etc.  These beliefs are media propaganda created and people in America get their ideas and beliefs and opinions of people and of people of other races from the images that have been created and displayed across movie and t.v. screens.  First they stereotype the Black man as a dangerous, violent, White woman raping drug addicted feens, who won't work and do nothing all day but rob people.  

So, if all Black women are angry or are angry women, then wouldn't that mean that you and all other Black men are dangerous, violent, White woman raping, drug addicted feens, who won't work and do nothing all day but rob people?

See what I mean?

http://www.khou.com/news/local...riend-200451251.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/crime...fight-183381511.html

 

  Our ancestors are ROLLING over in their graves....at this VERY moment.  Need I say more?  Generationally....blackfolks STILL don't get it.  But!

Considering that I'm not married to an NBA player or any other type of baller, how does this relate to me or any of the other black women who post on African America dot org??? What about the ball players who get arrested for the foolishness that they do? The article isn't even relevant to the conversation. 

Sunnubian, thank you for posting that piece by BBG! On point.