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Bill Cosby, Jesse Jackson and other black celebrities are too remote to offer realistic models of responsible manhood. The adult males whom many black boys try to emulate come from their own neighborhoods, and in tough urban areas, these "models" are all too often involved in drugs and crime. One , lesson boys learn from such men is that doing well in school is for sissies or, worse yet, for blacks who are trying to "act white...
...Muslims are becoming role models for a generation of black youth. "The problem of confronting gang violence and drugs is the responsibility of the black male," says Joseph H. Duff, president of the Los Angeles branch of the N.A.A.C.P. "And Muslims have always been a symbol of strong black manhood." In Los Angeles more than 1,000 black men, many of them former gang members, have recently joined the Nation of Islam. One new recruit is James Johnson, 18. "They told me how we were killing ourselves and showed me what's really going on in society," says Johnson. "Minister...
...most powerful and historically accurate film ever made about the American Civil War. But Glory, which tells the story of one of the war's first black regiments, has deeper meaning. The movie addresses the most profound theme of race in America in 1990. Glory is about black manhood and responsibility...
...worst problems of the black underclass today -- young black men murdering other young black men; young black males fathering children of females who are virtually children themselves; young blacks lost to crack and heroin -- all connect directly to black manhood and responsibility...
...alone who freed the slaves and made them American citizens. It was also blacks who freed themselves. These were the blacks who enlisted, trained, suffered, endured condescension and insult, disciplined themselves, fought for the right to fight and the opportunity to die in the pursuit of their freedom and manhood...