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Men of every kind this is why it is OK for your patriarchy masculinity and manhood to be examined and interrogated. It does not matter how black and conscious and righteous you are. It does not matter how many black babies you have sired or parented or how many black households or sacred and secular institutions you have joined or headed.
Even being feminine or only preferring men does not absolve you. It does not matter how many black poems you have written how many one-man shows about black fatherhood you have penned and performed.
Misogyny is the primordial cancer to nation-building. It is how we have crippled our freedom movements from within. Whatever pain or discomfort you may experience from being compelled to redress the tenets of your masculinity by examining how misogyny runs through it like a strangling cord pales in comparison to how many black beings—straight, gay, bisexual, transgendered, non-binary men, women, boys, and girls—are impaled and crushed by your numb reflexive regressive abusive and often degenerate portrayal of manhood.
— Brad Walrond
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Brad Walrond, poet writer, scholar, activist born in Brooklyn, NY based in the Bronx. Brad Walrond’s forthcoming collection “everywhere alien” is soon to be published by renowned writer-activist and publisher Jessica Care Moore on Moore Black Press. You can follow Brad on Facebook, Instagram, and twitter @bradwalrond
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