This is true. The media and even our own people say that Black people are uneducated and lazy and don't want a job  This is a falsehood. There are many Black MEN with college degrees but can't get a job. Oh they can find plenty job openings, but we don't fit the company image. You know look like, talk like, live like. The problem with this is we are African Americans with a history of Slavery in this country be the same people who own the companies. This is why the Nation of Islam teaches that Black MEN should have their own businesses. Grow their own food and buy, not rent, their homes. As long as we are dependent on others we are of a Slave mentality. This mentality comes from opression and bondage of the Black MAN and people of color/other races.

Without a good job and opportunities a Black MAN will have a hard time supporting a family. He will be ashamed and not sure of his manhood because of his failure at finding work or his force subordination to others.  Many men who are blessed to find work also find themselves in the low income bracket. Again they work but don't make enough to support a family or support themselves. This is a problem.  This is an emotion burden that he seeks to free himself of. He can remain and feel emasculated or leave and be free of the embarrasment in the eyes of his children. In his eyes he is a failure even if he is college educated, even if he does love his children, even if he is an over achiever for the condition he grew up in. Your social enviroment plays a very big role in your developement and place in society. Boys who do not have strong active fathers in their house hold find themselves over burdened with unanswered question of manhood. Questions that mama can't answer because mama is not a man. This and other problems are destroying the African Ameican communities all over the America.

The "Answer" we most build the African American Family Up. MEN must stand up and befaithful and loving to our women, women must allow them to stand up by not overshadowing them with thier accomplishments and see their failures for what they really are. We can not and must not close our eyes to ignorance, racism, and prefference of the Black woman over the Black man. Remember a Black MAN can rise no higher than the Black WOMAN. She is the backbone of the family. She is the nuturer of life. So if her mind is of the world, her seeds will not be fruitful. The same goes for the MAN. If he is of the world and submit to the evils of the flesh, he will destroy his seeds and his woman (AIDS, emotional burdens, economical burdens, children outside the marriage, and lust for other women/men or money). Please understand some of this is my oppinion and some of it is ordained by God and nature. Destruction of the Family is also destroying the Black community. Wake up and think please.