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We see the violence and the crime and the antisocial behavior, murder even, especially among young men. So how did we get here? So here’s part of the problem: Abstract
Throughout the institution of social services attention to the needs of black male youth has been subjugated relative to the needs of women and girls. Despite the educational failures and hyper-incarceration of black male youth they remain aloof from social services. In the aftermath is an invisible crisis not irrelevant to the feminization of social services. Such feminization is evident in the social work databases and social service help models where it has dominated. If social service agencies are to balance the influences of feminization, it is imperative to de-feminize social services by systematically addressing the needs of black male youths. The outcome will contribute to their academic successes and reduction in rates of hyper-incarceration. Only then will it be possible to sustain alternatives to the feminization of social services and the potency of the social work profession at-large.

And not only social services but the church, other government agencies and even the tourism industry that tells young , Black males ‘you can’t be ear Clark’s or Dickies on this job’. ‘You have to get the shiny (dress pants and the dress shoes ( with the slippery bottom so you have to walk on tippy toes.’ Most Bahamian males will not put themselves in a position where their masculinity is being challenged or compromised whether it’s in the church, a government agency or employment. And even when the police pull up and proceed to do a full body search in public. It is wrong and it is all by design to make the Black man feel unwanted as like he doesn’t fix. So his choice is to step out the bounds of society and become antisocial and criminal even. To the point of committing murder even. So it is society that needs to be fixed more than the young (Black and Brown ) male. That is why the more money is spent on policing and crime fighting, the more crime among Black youth increases. Unless and until Bahamian society is fixed to include the Black male and restore him to the position of the head of the household and the home, the problem with crime will continue to persist. The young men will continue to rebel. The young men know something is wrong but they don’t know how to fix it. But those in authority and with power do. But they continueto ‘sissying’ around and say it is a crime problem because they have less competition in their own roles. Go visit ANY African country where males have not been displaced out of their God given and appointed roles. Crimes against the persons are low and murder is close to zero. Time to end a America’s fake war on Black males.

There was a female principal of prominence at a high school in New Providence. And, apparently, her job was to weed out every male teacher that was assigned to the school. Not because she was anti/male but it made her appear to be stronger than life and more successful as succeeding where many had failed. And after she retired more male teachers were assigned to the school. Not only did many of the problems with students violence and misbehavior disappear, but the school started to excel more in sports and ther academic performance also improved. Time to unlock this country from the arms of selfishness and greed. The ‘all for me’ and ‘all about me’ eras are gone!

Male adults are outgunned by mothers. It is a sad phenomenon the amount of females that have polypratenal hones. Sometimes men are discouraged away from having impact in the home. "The villain is coming go wash the dishes." So they maintain friendships over authoritarian men. Who dare tell females one daddy per household. Not the church nor politician. The 80s drug million dollar social upheaval made any male with money a superior catch for all females. No care is ever given for fatherhood,just things. Then the faithless children come. The son who brings home the most money becomes mommy favorite. Bahamian poetry, 'Without A Daddy.' 1992 Government Bahamas Youth Report gave plenty DATA that was suppressed. One being that Bahamian men with AIDS vastly outnumbered females. After extrapolation of DATA. Bahamian females had multiple male partners men were not bisexual spreading AIDS among themselves. Sir C A Smith encouraged us writers to present Bahamian details to literature and we applied ourselves to the craft of writing fiction through courses. Then Education abruptly switched to Lady Ivy who could not find a moment in life to field a question at Bahamas Writers Association meeting. She said hello and goodbye. End of meeting.

Carlton r61,,,; most of that which you wrote is blatant lies. Blatant and patent. The absence of the father started ways before America’s FAKE war on drugs in the 1980’s. It started during slavery when a prominent slave owner told s other slave owners that one of the most effective ways to punish slaves was to break up families. So fathers were taken out of the home and sent to other plantations and even mothers and children were often separated. And some male slaves were used ‘not unlike stallions’ where they were transported from plantation to plantation to ‘breed’ with selected female slaves. And some were not even kept around long enough to lay eyes on the children they fathered. And so they learned to suppress their emotions and not let ‘massa’ know the effects of having to be carted away and leave wife and children behind, some never to be seen again. And if that was not bad enough. Some slave owners had adulterous relationships with married female slaves and the slave husbands were powerless to do anything about. And many young female slaves were raped and violated in ways unimaginable by slave owners and their offspring. And so the woman had to endure all of these things and had to become the bedrock for the shreds of her family that was left by the cruel, vicious and heartless, white slave master. Every single Secretary of Defense since the Hoover presidency met with the then presidents to discuss ‘war on Black people.’ And the FAKE ‘war on drugs’ in the 1980’s was another plot to ensnare Black men and get them out of the homes and into prisons or graveyards. And despite the illicit drug trade growing multi fold since its impact on The Bahamas and the Caribbean, no other race has lost more lives and seen more people incercerated than Black people. Today some 800 million metric tonnes is shipped illegally into the United States and one hardly heard of any arrests deaths from drug trafficking or persons going to jail for drug trafficking. But it has wiped out thousands in Mexico and Colombia as the drug producing countries. Even Jamaica no longer fits prominently in the trade of marijuana because most of that which is consumed in the United States is produced in the US. And to say there was a big party in The Bahamas in the 1980’s when the drug bags got torn open and mothers gave preference to their sons who brought home the most (drug) money is a serious lie. These islands, like many others in the Caribbean, became intentionally awash with drug money and with cocaine the same time. The intention was to get as many people hooked on cocaine as possible and many others as corrupt as possible from the easy access to drug money. One could not use cocaine to the point of becoming an addict if they didn’t have money or easy access to cheap cocaine. And so it was many mothers who first saw through the plot to lure their sons away from earning a legitimate living into the illicit drug culture. The vast difference of income

The vast difference of income was too great to restrict even the most disciplined. So it was the mothers who had to suffer the heartbreak of having their sons die in plane crashes or go missing on some go fast boat or getting llocked up in jails in some foreign country or eventually being shot and killed by their own, Bahamian drug rivals. And many mothers told their sons a thousand times over ‘ you mean more to me than all the money you could ever bring home. Leave them evil, wicked drugs alone and get a decent job. I need you alive more than anything in the world.’ But tge devil had planted his seeds and the ‘well orchestrated’ drug life was too sweet for many to walk away from. Now fentanyl is taking its toll on America , claiming thousands of lives annually. And authorities try to place the blame on China where most of the illicit substance is produced.but most of the addiction is started with legally written prescription by qualified doctors and are filled in licensed pharmacies operating legally in the United States. And thus far, most of the fentanyl deaths have been amongst the white folk of America of all levels of society, because, apparently it is this group that consumes most of the 800 Billion tonnes of cocaine that is shipped ‘illegally’ into the United States annually.