Black Men Get Beyond Pursuits to Purposefulness

“Unfortunately, way too many Black boys are being raised and have been raised now as men with self-limiting, self-defeating, self-diseasing, and self-destructive sense of becoming and being a man. This narrow and self-sabotaging notion of manhood unfortunately results in way too many Black men being consumed with chasing money, pussy, clothes, jewelry, shoes, and vehicles; too many Black men ending up on alcohol and drugs; too many ending up in prisons, hospitals, homeless, or on the streets as bums. Indeed, too many Black men have been raised with wrong lowering ‘pursuits’ and not with a elevating higher sense of ‘purpose’.”- KenRaySun

Black Men Crying is 'Cleansing' And It Don't Make You 'Weak'

            “People can cry much easier than they can change.”             James Baldwin

Black men in America have to carry a heavy internal emotional distress burden.

Black men are on the bottom of almost every socioeconomic measure and first on others: on the bottom when it comes to employment and first when it comes to being murdered by the police; on the bottom when it comes to homelessness and first when it comes to being in prison.

Indeed, there's much psycho-socioeconomic hardships that Black men could cry about, however Black men have been socialized not to cry 'release', but to release through anger and violence and suppress through drugs and alcohol use; too many Black men 'mash-out' (escape) and too many 'crash-out' (self-destruct) instead of 'crying out'.

Yes, there are benefits of crying for both the body and mind by restoring emotional balance, dulling pain, and activating your para-sympathetic nervous system to help you self-soothe. Crying has benefits for the grieving process, Black men die are 'killed' the most in America; they carry so much sorrow, numbness, depression, and grief within.

Black men crying is an important safety valve, largely because keeping difficult stuffed feelings inside what psychologists' call 'repressive coping' is bad for our health. Studies have linked repressive coping with a weaker immune system, ulcers, hypertension, strokes, cardiovascular disease, as well as with mental health conditions like anxiety and mood disorders.

Yes, Black men releasing emotional tears have health benefits; emotional tears contain stress hormones and other toxins. Researchers have theorized that crying flushes this distress and toxicity out of our system.

“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak. Sometimes it’s what you need to do to get strong again.” – J.W. Lynne

Black Male Unity is Necessary in Racist America

"When racist white police stop Black men driving their vehicles they don't see democrats or republicans, Christians or Muslims, they only see a Black man! When racist employers interact with Black men applying for jobs they don't see democrats or republicans, Christians or Muslims, they only see a Black man! Indeed, Black men we are not targets of racism because we're democrats or republicans, Christians or Muslims, we are repressed because we are Black men! Yes, as Black men we have a common experience, so let us Unite!" - Ken RaySun

Black Men 'Recreate' Ourselves

"Under the white institutional power structure as Black men we undergo 2 creation processes: first many times 'self-defeating', we are often ‘raised’ wrong and educated worse; second 'self-winning', we must ‘upraise’ ourselves through 'course correction' the ongoing inner struggle to have the best reasoning and actions." - KenRaySun