Blog Post #4

The Black Male: Searching beyond Stereotypes

             I think the way the white people treat black men is not what black males should deserve. For the way the white people treat black men, we can see that as a black man at that time, he was just viewed as a white society slave: white people`s tools which can meet their needs. In the article, it says that “…as such, their proper role in white society was as laborers, not as the managers of labor”, It shows us that the white people viewed them as physical power for them and they deprive of black male`s right to get their own achievements. Even worse, they are viewed as “the only acceptable behavior of any black male was that of subservience—the loyal slave” (Marable18).  It sounds like if they want to live in that society, what they have to do is to obey their masters without any questionings. In other words, whatever their masters ask them to do, they must do it. It give us a image: a loyal dog waiting for the master`s rewards, but finally he gets nothing. How sad it is! That`s what the white people treat black men. When we look back in white history in the article, we find that black men helped the white adapt the difficult situation. “Africans were the first to cultivate wheat on the continent…, who cut down most of the virgin forest across the southern colonies. (Marable 17). Even more, in the times of war, black men protect the white in order to save their lives and property. But unfortunately, the white people look like the snake treats the farmer in the fable of “the farmer and the snake”. Even though the farmer saves the snake`s life, the snake bites the farmer which leads him to death.

Work cited:

Marable, Manning. “The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes”. Men`s Lives.5^TH ed. Ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.17-23. Print.