We don’t know, what we don’t know.
So, tragically, when it comes to the issues that men and boys experience, because so little is known, or discussed, we automatically assume they don’t exist. We turn on the news and see an endless stream of tragic stories of women, and usually white women, and assume such people are society’s sole victim. For example – If a woman goes missing, data finds that she can expect to receive three times more media coverage, than if a man goes missing. If a white person goes missing, they can expect three times more media coverage, than if a black person goes missing. And if you’re a black man, then you pay the double penalty, where both compound upon one another; meaning you’ll get around nine times less coverage, than a missing white women.So begins the media’s infatuation with white women (particularly young attractive ones), described beautifully by Helen Rosner in the New Yorker: ‘There’s something about the missing young, beautiful white woman that has a lot of symbolic weight in America. It’s an aberration, and it becomes a container for things like the loss of innocence or the death of purity.’
Of course, this doesn’t just apply to missing people, but in many places, and yet the intersection of race and gender is an important area that is too readily ignored in men. So… what are the experiences of black men? And why are they so often left out of the conversation? ~ Source https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/vol106/iss2/4/ Talking with Ask a Brotha Podcast here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvAkoX-dGA&feature=youtu.be2026-07-20
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