Gender roles as effecting the negro

Homosexuality has always been a interesting topic to me. Beyond politics and religion few other topics rile people like discussing homosexuality in America.

Usually I let people live as they wish. Be they drunkard, liar, homosexual or otherwise. However I pay extra attention to issues that effect the race of people I belong to. If there is any race in America that should be concerned with homosexuality it is the black race. Our black men are in jails at astonishing and alarming numbers. Leaving single mothers to raise men and women. Leaving extended family playing the role of mother and father. Boys and girls are left without a single positive male influence in their lives. Our race is in shambles and the very last thing we need is to die off slowly because fewer and fewer black babies are being born.

Homosexuality is not a mental illness it is a inability to relate to the opposite gender.

The boy that lacks a male role model has a predisposition to turn out homosexual. He is looking for that male companion, someone to love him like the father he never had. He is looking for a father. Even those with fathers, like James Baldwin, and have suffered abuse from distant fathers have a great chance of looking for that fatherly love elsewhere. Granted not all men lacking fathers turn to the homosexual life style. However just like the child who's parents are heavy drinkers that child as a predisposition to turn into a drinker its self. Though it is not for certain having a specific type of childhood will always guarantee a specific outcome, but the odds in any one favor are substantially greater.

Like wise for the woman who as a child had no father in her life or worse a sexually abusive father may grow to hate her father as a male might grow just to hate his father. In the female case that hatred may often show its self in the form of distrust for all males. It becomes hard for her to relate and open herself up and trust a man because of the actions and pain caused by her father.

Of course in both cases the male and the female may turn out differently. The male could take his lack of father figure and latch on to his mother and vicariously women in general. In the case of the woman she may want that father she never had and pour herself into a man.

That is why the lacking of a parent specifically a father figure is not a direct cause of homosexuality, more often a predisposition to it.

So in realizing this we understand why the black race more than any other is more susceptible to the fostering of the homosexual life style. Not only the families left behind by the man in prison but the man in prison who may engage in homosexual practices.

The cure for homosexuality is a solid family. A solid black family is what we need as a people. Many of the challenges we face today as a people can be addressed at the family level. Once we start to address ourselves as a family we can better address ourselves as a people.