THe IDenTity & IMaGE of THE UrbAn MALE; The FIerce URgenCY of NOW!

"The Lord will make young boys rule over them. Mere children will govern them. People will crush one another. They will fight against each other. They will fight against their neighbors. Young people will attack old people. Ordinary people will attack those who are more important. A man will grab hold of one of his brothers at his father's home. He will say, You have a coat. So you be our leader. Take charge of all these broken-down buildings"

Isaiah 3:4-6

There is a divine order in humanity & I believe it starts with the male species. I believe MeN were and are created to lead, set tempo and create an atmosphere conducive for

spiritual & material growth, development and sustainability. However, when men abdicate their role whether its willful neglect or hopelessness, society is thrown into a conundrum.

Well we're in a conundrum! especially and particularly urban America because they are often the target & recipients of policy, practices & positions of politics & industry who prime & promote popular culture.


Men who lack the rutilant resources America suggest they should have become consumers of popular culture, they detach themselves from their current reality & present station in life to live vicariously through media images flaunted before them. Over time these images have become esculent... we no longer ? its toxicity.


Its not acciedental or coincidental that by-products of Urban America lead in low academic achievement, poor behavior, high unemployment, and destructive choices. The light of society diminishes as the identity, image, role, & responsibility of the male diminshes.  


This generation has a filiopietistic view of urban culture being presented to them and we must vehemently challenge it!


I've screeded long enough... I'm convinced that this is an epidemic that is subtly losing the attention of the nation, and even the communities in which they are being birthed. Wow unto us who allow it to happen!!

Take a look @ a few states

• According to studies African American males who attend church regularly are either younger than 14 or over 60

• Black male high school graduates going to college has risen to 37 percent, the percentage for black female high school graduates jumped to 42 percentonly

• 35 percent of the black males who enter college graduate in six years. This compares to 59 percent for white males, 46 percent for Hispanic men and 45 percent for black females who entered college the same year.

• Black males are disproportionately labeled as discipline and behavioral problems and fast-tracked out of high schools through expulsions and suspensions.

• About 10.4% of the entire African-American male population in the United States aged 25 to 29 was incarcerated, by far the largest racial or ethnic group—by comparison, 2.4% of Hispanic men and 1.2% of white men in that same age group were incarcerated. According to a report by the Justice Policy Institute in 2002, the number of black men in prison has grown to five times the rate it was twenty years ago. . In 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college. In 1980, there were 143,000 black men in prison and 463,700 enrolled in college.

• A Black male born in 1991 has a 29% chance of spending time in prison at some point in his life. The figure for white males is 4% & for Hispanics, 16%

• About 80% of African American can expect to spend “a significant” portion of their childhood living without their biological father.*