#because Dalitso and op have already done a great job articulating the issues

[overgrown-ruins]

I highly recommend Dalitso Ruwe's talk, Eugenic Caricatures of Black Male Death from the Nineteenth- to Twenty-first Centuries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEGsjGltpvE

Abstract:

In 1994, at the provocation of police officers’ brutalization of young Black boys under the acronym N.H.I. (No Humans Involved), Africana philosopher Sylvia Wynter implored humanities scholars to understand how eugenics formulates our understanding of who is categorized as human, and how the categories of race, class, and gender function to render certain groups as unfit for society. To this, Wynter noted,

“…our global and nation-state socio-systematic hierarchies are therefore the expression, not of the prescriptive categories of our now globalized cultural epistemological model, but then, in the last instance, evolutionarily pre-selected degrees of eugenic ‘worth’ between human groups at the level of race, culture, religion, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and sex.”

Building on Wynter’s postulation, this essay contends that between the nineteenth- to twenty-first centuries, eugenics theories have created the impression that Black males possess pathogenic traits of criminality that must be eradicated through lethal and non-lethal violence. Which is to say since the nineteenth century, eugenic theories have deemed Black males as hereditary/pathogenic/criminals who pose a threat to White civilization, thus are worthy of eradication to protect white society. These eugenic theories I argue in this essay are prevalent in the writings of white vigilantes, and medical reports of Black males who have died from police brutality in our milieu.

(formatting & emphasis added by @overgrown-ruins)

"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.