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 Must see DVD!This is an excellent myth-buster that all African-Americans would do well to view! The film-maker tackles quite a few subjects that will shock viewers, but he will open their… Read more Benjamin Stephens |
 We better think again !Mr Morton presents a very interesting and thought provoking look at some commomnly held misconceptions about the black male in America. Read more C. Brooks |
| Best Documentary on Black Men This was the best documentary I’ve seen on Africian American Men. It confirms what I’ve always believed. Read more Gloria Howard |
| SPEECHLESS!!!! I was speechless!! I sat with a few friends and watched this film in amazement of the information I was hearing. Read more Lady D |
| THIS IS A MUST SEE DVD !!! This is a must see dvd for the African American community. Your mind will be blown at how the media myths of black men are absolutely & totally not true. Read more Yvonne Hankins |
| THANK YOU BROTHER!!! Thanks for the long over due documentary about the men I love, respect and admire!!! Thank you!! I am making it my business to make sure the young women, men and boys in my life… Read more D. Edwards |
| Black Mans point of View Excellent DVD, which by the way we will be showing during the family gathering on Thanksgiving Day. It’s something that the young African Americans need to see. D. Fobs |
I want to thank you for putting this together. I heard you on the Madison show and I went straight to your website to order the DVD. I am starting a mentoring program in Prince George’s County and will definitely use this video for the youth. I also wanted to give you a Bowie State University shout out; Class of 2002 and 2005!!! Much success my brother.
Marcus Brown
Kudos to you for shooting this film.
I hope the message resonates not to just to black men in the USA, but to many disillusioned folk in the Caribbean, UK, Europe and beyond.
Jesse Peterson actually made a joke and compared blacks to monkeys on C-span Wash Journal and continuosly makes racist statements against blacks in the media…please! Lost me on that one. One of these days black conservatives will learn how they sometimes hurt their own cause by acting as if they have ontempt toward their own culture. I do have respect for some of the other balck conservatives in this flm so I will go ahead and watch c-span interview. Also, I still need to check out that WashPost series on black men, hope you have one of those journalist in film.
TOO bad you did not reach out to black men who are (unlike Steele & McWhorter) actually activist like Steve Harvey and Break the Cycle campaign, 100 Black Men, Jim Brown and the gang prevention orgs in LA.
Nevertheless, I hope this drives more black men to mentor the fatherless black boys who have fathers in prison or no fathers at all. This is the only way to actually break the cycle because they need positive role models NOW.
Also, the black church has failed and don’t talk about family planning to young people( too busy marching against gay marriage I guess). It is actually good that you chose not to speak with the NAACP b/c it is not the responsibility of legal orgs to solve this problem. Black men need to MAN UP and reach out to black boys with no direction or postive male role models in low income communities in order to break the cylce and not become dead beat dads themselves.
I hope your black conservative “experts” will become more involved in the community the way black liberals are. I volunteer with my cousin’s org to help disadvantaged girls so I guess I will see McWhorter and Steele at the local community center in the hood right?
Jen
Dallas, TX
You can’t have it both ways. When you talk about the “stats” that have gotten worse over a generation, the percentage increase is even greater n the white community (and other communities). Even Trump had a child out of wedlock. And when you talk about the impact of the media and dismiss the Imus incident….Imus was constantly making a minstrel of black people, even while playing our music on his show. The fact that he was one of the most popular dj’s and on a prominent sports radio station was enough to take on that struggle. He was perpetuating the same stereotypes you want our community to address. Don’t be a hypocrite and dismiss the significance. Oh and get that loser McWhorter (or is it McHider) off the show
TO ANYONE WHO VIEWED THIS FILM, WHAT AGE GROUP WOULD YOU SHOW THIS TO? IS IT TO MUCH FOR A 5TH GRADER TO GRASP? I WANT TO MAKE IT PART OF LESSON PLAN. I ALSO HAVE FRIENDS THAT TEACH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
(FINALLY, CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE THE “INNER CITY” EXIST IN BALTIMORE, BOSTON, NEWARK, DETROIT, CLEVELAND, ST.LOUIS, ETC…? I WANT TO GO VISIT)
Just saw C-SPAN Q&A Interview with Janks Morton the filmmake. Outstanding!
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I just wanted to say that I enjoyed watching the interview on C-Span and am looking forward to watching your movie in its wholeness. I was especially glad to see the way that Mr. Janks redirected Brian Lamb’s pathetic attempts at questions (repeatedly asking about political affiliation and about how he managed to handle a camera and a small budget) to draw attention to the larger and much more significant purpose of his work. I was enlightened and challenged in my thinking. I should also say that I think the timing of this film is very important for the public–of all races and genders–in the midst of the real possiblity that Senator Obama could become the first black American president.
Congratulations to Janks Morton for his provocative “doculog.” My concern is how it may be distributed to promote the dialog he hopes will result from screening and discussing the film. For use in classrooms, etc, an accompanying print piece with the factual information and statistics referred to on screen would be important to have. He has clearly absorbed and intuited filmmaking techniques as now available to the nontechnical population in which technology is now democratizing the media-making process. Best wishes for success in promoting the dialog essential for our society.
Congratulations, Janks Morton! I caught, by chance, the last part of your interview on C-SPAN on the evening of August 19–enough to make me applaud, even though my dog was the only one there to share my enthusiasim for what I had just witnessed. I am a psychologist who works in a high school in San Diego, and have witnessed the struggles of young people. I am so very glad to know who you are and what you have done. I now have another resource to communicate with students. Thank you for your good work!
I pray the community, Black and White wake up to the MESSage. The wedge of “he” in Washington is heavy, ambiguous and will be difficult to dislodge. Peace and Love will not sell much vinyl. The $ needs to be overtaken by fear of annihilation.
My husband and I - two ordinary, middle-class, older white people - just saw you on C-Span. Thank you for a wonderful program. We plan to order the DVD of “What Black Men Think” and would really like to see more black libertarians and centrists get involved in politics and in changing the perceptions many white people have of black people and their culture. The media seems to cater more to the Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson types. In our opinion, they are not good representatives for black Americans. They are too angry and seem to care about what’s in their own personal interests and not what’s good for black people in general. Good luck to you!
MORE THAN A LOVE/HATE RELATION WITH ITSELF IN ITS COMMUNITY, THE BLACK CULTURE HAS A CONFUSED UNDERSTANDING OF ITS BLACK SELF IN INTEGRATION. THE CROSS OVER OF INTEGRATION HAS LED THE BLACK CULTURE INTO LOOSING ITS UNDER- STANDING OF ITS CONCENTRIC BLACK MORALS AND VALUES TO STAND TOGETHER AS A CONCENTRIC UNIT IN ORDER TO STAY TOGETHER.
A RECENT GREAT EXAMPLE OF A STRONG CONCENTRIC BLACK UNIT WAS THE WAY IN WHICH A LARGE GROUP OF MAJORITY OF BLACK MEN(2 OF OTHER CULTURE OUT OF 50) COMPETING ON THE LATEST 2007 “MAKING THE BAND.” THEY REFLECTED INTELLECTUALLY AND PRIVATELY IN PRAYERS(JULIUS IS AN ANOINTED AND GOD FEARING SOLDIER AS HE REPRESENTED) AND THEIR PERSONAL MORAL AND VALUES.
THEY REPRESENTED THEMSELVES AS HONORABLE BLACK MEN IN SPIRIT AND PERSONALITIES. THEY RESPECTED THEIR CULTURE/ THEMSELVES/ EACH OTHER / MR. COMBS, AND OTHERS THAT HELD A PIECE OF THEIR DESTINY. THERE IS NOT A RECALLING OF AN OVERBEARING OF USAGE OF RAW PROFANITY. THEY WERE PRIVATE AND DOMINATE, AND THEY RESPONDED WITH A REFLECTIVE THINK BEFORE YOU REACT AND SPEAK IN A DETERMINED MANLY QUIET SPIRIT. THEY STOOD AS MEN WHO WERE CHASING THEIR ASPIRATIONS, BUT INTERNALLY ALL COULD SENSE THAT THEY WOULD NEVER COMPROMISE THE “HOPE AND DREAMS OF THEIR ANCESTORS.” THERE ACTIONS WERE IN THE MANNER OF THE OLD BLACK FAMILY’S GOD FEARING BLACK MEN!!!
WE NEED THESE KIND OF BLACK MEN TO MALCOLMNIZE OUR CULTURE. MR. KING’S DREAM IS NOW A REALITY AND A POSSIBILITY FOR GREATER PROGRESS. IT IS NOW TIME THOUGH FOR OUR BLACK MEN TO MATERIALIZE MR. MALCOLM’S BLACK EMPOWERMENT DREAM AND TO IGNORE THE LIES AND PROPAGANDA OF NOT PROJECTING AN UNIFIED IMAGE OF LIVING BLACK AND PROUD IN INTEGRATION.
MALCOLMNIZING THE BLACK CULTURE AS A CONCENTRIC UNIT IN INTEGRATION SHOULD BE DISPLAYED DAILY BY OUR BLACK MEN AS IT WAS IN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHARACTERS OF JAMES EVANS (“GOOD TIMES”) AND GEORGE JEFFERSON(“THE JEFFERSONS”). THE TWO EXTREMES(IN POOR CONDITIONS OR RICH CONDITIONS) ARE PERFECT EXAMPLES. THEY KNEW AND LOVED THEIR ROOTS AND THEMSELVES. THEY CHOSE GOD FEARING WOMEN OF THEIR CULTURE AND THEIR PERSONAL CHOICE. THEY KNEW AND LOVED THEIR BLACKNESS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND THEIR PEOPLE. THEY WERE OBSTINATE FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS WHEN IT CAN TO MORALS, VALUES, DOING THE RIGHT THINGS, AND THEIR CULTURE. THEY WERE BOLD, PERSISTENT, AND VICTORIOUS(NO MATTER HOW LARGE OR SMALL.) IN THEIR EVERY DAY’S SOCIETAL CONFRONTATION AND BATTLES!!! THEY ALSO NEVER TURNED ON THEMSELVES FOR FAME FORTUNATE AND ESPECIALLY IN GENERAL(LEAD WAYS TO SELF HATE) IN ALL OF THEIR FULLNESS OF THEIR BLACKNESS!!!
TO BUILD A CONCENTRIC BLACK UNIT AND MALCOLMNIZE THE BLACK CULTURE INTO EMPOWERMENT WE NEED OUR BLACK MEN TO STAND!!! MAY THE GOD OF ABRAHAM/ ISAAC, AND ISRAEL THAT SENT JESUS CHRIST LEAD OUR BLACK MEN INTO HEALING OUR CULTURE IN THREE WAYS:
*GIVING A TENTH TO THEIR CHURCH OR A BLACK CHURCH(MALACHI 3:10)
*IN MEMORY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, BEGIN RESPECTING/ SUPPORTING, AND NOT DEGRADING OTHER BLACK MEN
*JOINING THE NAACP IN MEMORY OF W. E. B. DUBOIS
GOD BLESS OUR BLACK CULTURE…THANK YOU, AMEN!!!
(PLEASE EXCUSE ANY GRAMMATICAL ERRORS!!!)
Comments From Mr. Tavis Smiley Web Site Question…
Janks: Please continue what you have started! I would like to see you become president! Thank you and may God richly bless you! Tom Doyle
Mr. Morton,
Just caught your interview on C-SPAN. It brought a tear to my eye. Your analysis of how negative stereotypes of black men are used by both the government & interest groups to their advantage while disenfranchising those they claim to help is pure gold!!! Blacks & Whites have been duped! Thanks for keeping Brian Lamb out of the Left vs. Right trap. If they cant divide us by race, they’re gonna try by party, by class or by sex…whatever they can use to keep us from realizing the truth. Thank you for your efforts! Your movie is a blast of sanity in an insane land.
I just watched your show on c-span. Wow it was great!!! I could relate to the passion, purpose and urgency to help our youth that it displayed. My wife mentors younger black women and I mentor men. We’ve been together 25 years and the functional, loving, black spiritual family has been part of the central goal of much of our life work. Not to hate on brother Al or Jesse, but I’ve read the works of many of those you interviewed, and I went to college with Bill Cosby’s daughter!! Self empowerment is the key and forgiveness is the power we as black men need to tap into. Thanks for your work. I am down in the Raleigh area and would like to volunteer myself to help in any work that you have that extends into this region. Be blessed. MM
p.s. I’m buying the video (but not from the barber store brother)
I just finished watching you on c-span. wow! Finally, a man that wants to stand up and speak the truth about a race in our country who has been taken advantage of and lied to by others in their race/ethnic group in order to make money and further their political goals. I have been ranting and raving about people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the NAACP and how they are creating victims in the Black Community for years. I guess these people think that if they keep the people ignorant of the truth and make them feel like victims then they will continue to make money and have a job in the future. They make me sick! People, no matter the color, need to be responsible for themselves, for their actions, for their future. Through the hard work of MLK and other great men like him, we have a society where the possibilities are endless no matter your color, race, or ethnic group or even socio-economic status. The problem with me stating these things is i’m made out to be a racist because i’m white. Telling the truth is not popular nowadays, especially when ones comments are directed at a race other than his own. Your film, especially if it’s seen by enough people, will open some blind eyes. That is my prayer, at least. God Bless you for speaking out. We need more men like you:willing to speak the painful and unpopular truth. It is also my hope that more white people will watch this film. We need to see that the “hip hop” and “rap” crowd is not indicative of the black community as a whole. Too often young, black men are portrayed in the media as these types. How often do you see a black man portrayed as something other than an athlete, musician, or thug? Rarely! The perception has become all black men fit into one of these categories. And that simply isn’t the truth. Thanks for documenting the Truth.
I just saw the CSPAN interview and then ordered the film. Mr. Morton, I applaud your noble and straightforward effort and will attempt to get as many people as I can to watch and embrace “positive” talk that will hopefully expose ALL unreal and negative racial stereotypes that lurk within our society. Thank you for NOT pandering toward extreme dysfunctional ’solutions’.
Dear Mr. Morton,
I have not had the opportunity to view your project, but I was quite impressed with the clips shown on CSPAN this evening. Ironically, I had watched earlier “The 8th Annual State of the Black Nation” and wondered to myself did you attend that conference?
Mr. Morton, there is much to do as an individual and as a population of people and I applaud you for doing your part in opening up dialog using your mind. I was so happy to see a black man not using a song or dance routine as the vehicle to get attention.
You deserve all the health, wealth and prosperity that comes your way. My only request of you: stay true to the truth, keep your nose to the ground like a hound, and treat yourself well.
Dr. King said (paraphrased) “..I may not make it to the promised land with you, but we will get there.” Your project is one more advancement.
Love and respect
Dear Mr. Morton,
I just saw your interview with Brian Lamb on C-Span. It was brilliant. I am an Event Planner and I immediately thought of all of the black men (and people in general) that I know for whom I would love to organize a screening of your movie. I think that it is “right on point” about so many things. The negative perception is out there and it has been well-crafted in/by the media for some time, years, maybe forever. I have lived for years, off and on, outside of the US and it always shocked me whenever I got back here after being away for a awhile, just how images of black men are manipulated to make everyone feel like they are to be feared and that they are just not trustworthy. In any event, I remember coming back to the US in after being away once again, and listening to the news. The results of the supposed study was repeated again and again. I admit, I believed it to! How sad, especially because I know that much in the news is a lie and we should all be smarter than that. Well, I could go on because during your discussion you made so many important points, but I’ll end here, for now. Kindly contact me if you think that you would like to be a part of my “movie screening” in New York.
Great work!!! Toni B.
You have made a powerful and timely film, Mr. Morton. EVERYONE of any ethnicity should see this film. What has happened to Blacks since the taking of Dr King is appalling. And what is worse the Latinos are headed down that same deadend street.
Viral Marketing. Spread the word about the film and website. If each of us send one hundred websites and tell them to do the same, we’ll have a real dialogue in this country and will start to “free the peoples minds!”
I just finished viewing the interview on C-Span and I have too admit I am guilty of falling into that more JAIL than COLLEGE mentality. I will definitely purchase a LEGAL copy of the film and began a discuss. I truly think there is alot of young and old African American and other nationalities than should take a look at the film. I have one question: Did Brian Lamb finally check your hand?
Mr. Morton,
In watching you on C-Span tonight,I had to comment and share some of my research and study with you. I heard when you said that Black people need to know who they are. Well, allow me to take you on a journey.Black people history is Biblical according to research and study.Gen:15:13 a group of people was prophesied to into slavery for 400 years and the same group of people was told by their GOD in Deuteronomy 28:68 that he was going to send them int Egypt again but this time by ships where they would be sold unto their enenmies…….We as a people,must wake up. I was listening to what you said about the Jessie Jackson’s and the comments being made about the NAACP, and you are so correct I have been knowing and I have been studying for a long,long time but the media is not going to recognize me or anything that I have uncover,because they know that it is the truth about the Black man’s true identity I discovered that the Holy Bible is a coded Book. The secret is out and it is the poor,pitiful,downtrodden,ignorant,dumb,and crazy Black Man’s true history Book,especially the Old Testament.I have the proof because I have the books. Black people was taught the way they are we are going to have to educate our own Children and write their own curriculm,but we cannot do that until we get our minds back.
I just finished viewing the interview on C-Span and I have to admit I am guilty of falling into that more JAIL than COLLEGE mentality. I will definitely purchase a LEGAL copy of the film and began a discuss. I truly think there are alot of young and old African American and other nationalities than should take a look at the film. I have one question: Did Brian Lamb finally shake your hand? (post edited version)
What should be the next project for Janks Morton? American Media: the biggest barrier between American people and truth is American media. Since media has vested interest in fame, fortune and voice domination, it has no other choice but to gatekeep and manipulate truth. Additionally, American media primarily acts as a protector of its real audiences, corrupt politicans and greedy corporations.
Great interview and I will purchase this film shortly. I also plan to add a link to your website to my site this evening. Your film seems to bring a message that has long been missing in communities for a very long time. I must agree with one of the previous writers who stated that has a a white person speaking this he was viewed as racist. Unfortunately many of our race would not speak the “Truth” due to the repercussions possibly felt in our communities.
Good luck and I will spread the word here in Alaska
Just saw the CSPAN interview in Hawaii, too.
It does seem to be a little overrepresented by “conservatives”, for
lack of a better word. Before drawing any conclusions, however,
I will buy the film and view it.
The “jail/college” dichotomy is a two-edge sword -
both not reporting AND reporting can be problematic
for different reasons - but like you say, the problem is not the actual numbers - but the idea that they automatically think it is “jail”.
But, its a little disingenuous to not include black men on parole, probation, etc as well as jail - that is actually the typical comparison - and would put the corrections system over the college, I believe. The fact that it is even close among the general population is still pretty bad. You should have shown the white ratio - likely 10x to 20x higher.
It also seems like you come to some big conclusions - like
the NAACP and the government are only out for money, their own self-interest - while that maybe true - again, the lack of balance of what both sides are doing - may hurt the legitimacy of the film - since now I am just relying on you and the other speakers words - maybe true, maybe untrue, maybe somewhere in between. Again, after a viewing I will have a better sense.
Certainly, everyone can agree about some basic issues about black men’s difficulties in today’s society - and families - since all families are facing similar issues - blacks just disproportionately.
Blacks can still be more self-reliant while expecting redress of some grievances from the government (reparations, other) - other ethnicities do it.
And agreed - the media or someone needs to present REAL black and white, for that matter, role models - instead of sports heros and celibrities. Shaquillle O’Neal telling black kids to read is a farce - better to have your friend the real estate agent - a normal, regular guy, making a decent living, a real model for the average black kid or any kid. Or certainly that famous black surgeon - his name escapes me - those are role models.
Enough - glad you made it - in general - criticisms aside.
I can sense your own frustrations - and maybe ultimately
as you say, the movie is more about you - and maybe that portrayal
is the most important.
I watched C-span Q amd A today Sinday August 19,2007
i seen the film you,on the show and in the film appear smooth,refined,and to the point. No rough edges.
Whatever image, needs to be elevated. Lyrics need to be elevated, Example;
ghetto lyrics need to be elevated, It reflects that moment over to success.
points in ghetto lyrics to get out dof it . mto get them out,stratehies to GET THEM OUT OF IT. JANK, you will get them out with your films if noone does.
I would like to reads songs,add on,and/or convert them. This may be an idea for your next film? Where can I find these songs convert them and send them to you?
ghetto lyrics need to be elevated,converted,extended to success to get them out. Jank,your film is smooth,refined,to the point. The world needs you.
Dear Bro. Morton
Let me first thank you for having the Courage to “Tell It”. I’m 44 and proud Father to Six childern all from the same womb. I enjoyed the interview to the full*ist* and can’t wait to get a Copy of your Work. I love to see the amazement when some folk encounter a Brillant Black Man. Mr. Lamb could not believe the fact that you put most of this production togather alone. Finally I would love to give you My Story of the other side of the getto plite. How to raise a Family and Stay Married for 25 years. I know that there is a small minority of “US” Black Men that are in the Fight to Give our Children what We might not have had, Also I feel that the Creator sent you to tell Both sides of the Story. Your confidents is solid. and it is “All about the money”
May the blessings of heaven rest upon You and your Family.
Peace …
Congratulations, Mr. Morton, an excellent Q & A program on C-Span tonight!
It seemed that Brian Lamb was truly mystified by both the content and the process of your development of “What Black Men Think”. I applaud him for having you on the program. He is a skilled interviewer and you were eloquent and straightforward in your responses.
I alerted my friends and family across country that you would be on the program and shared the Washington Post article. Now we all will buy the DVD.
Finally, you have exploded myths and given facts. Continue this work.
Much success,
F.T. Shelton
I saw your interview on C-span tonight by accident and I was very impressed. Mr. Morton you have done a great thing in making this movie. You are obviously a very talented person and wish you great sucess in the future. I think that your premise that black men have been demonized in America is certainly true. I live in Nebraska and I want to tell you that bigoty is alive and well in this area as well as other places. I do think that when you mention that in the last forty years things have gone downhill re: unwed births, no fathers,etc. that this applies just as much to the white community–it is an American thing. Here in NE we have 43% unwed births among non whites and 37% among whites. The difference is probably statistically insignificant. The advanced thinking whites can lend support here but certainly approaching this from within the black community is needed and the key. Again thank you for what you have done.
By chance, (or God,s grace:) I just saw your c-span interview and was very impressed with you, your morals and views and your filmmaking. As a great grandmother (only 57) of multiracial children and grandchildren, I have lived in both worlds, so to speak. Your have hit the nail on the head. I am so happy to see this work and believe it will be THE most powerful tool in the future to bring about change in our society. This is a wonderful educational tool to help the people of the world begin to work towards tolerance of other races and love of oneself.
give me a call and your could co-produce and I will help you do “What Black Women Think”:)(I am white but I can round up some of my black family):)
As a former video production student, I think it was very well done. For years I have been wanting to do something like you have done to promote open birth records and family preservation ( I was a victim of the baby scoop era and I lost my first child to adoption in the 60’s) If I ever do, I would like to model it after your film when interviewing those affected by adoption. In fact if your not busy
You are blessed you have found your purpose, may God guide you along the way.
thanks for the film………….very thought provoking.
Best wishes
I saw your c-span interview and saw you for the right winged demigod you are. Who would give the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson a platform to spew his hatred for anyone of his own color. You claimed to have interviewed leading black scholars but wheres Naim Akbar, Marimba Ani, Joy Leary, Wade Nobles…, the list goes on. You went to the same ole tired conservatives the conservative white media turns to insult black america shelby steele, john mcwhorter, jesse lee peterson and then tried to convince us your not in line with them when you argued your self that the problem is our 1) black leaders sold us out and 2) racism though it may exipst isnt really a problem. Those are 2 halmarks of the black conservative elite. Any fool with a brain can see that there are issues within our community that must change but any “doculouge” on our condition in this day and time that does not included a serious African Centered perspective on our condition is a useless docu”drama”. It may play well for those mindless Africans who, as christian drones, have been forced to join the right cause passa said Jessus wont bless them if they dont (no offense to JC) but it wont sell here. Watch the ill informed label me as liberal and African Centered
Thank you for a thought provoking film. I think you have eloquently articulated what many of us have been feeling for a very long time, that is, that pseudo intellectuals like Dyson, and hack activists like Sharpton, have taken it upon themselves to set a radical agenda for our community, and that reasonable people must take it back. Instead of wasting our energy and resources protesting an insignificant shock jock, and instead of glorifying and mystifying angry criminals like Tupac, we need to return to the bread and butter issues of education, economics, and family. Men like Bill Cosby, and the multitude of brilliant intellectuals you’ve presented in your film, get it. These men need to be the leading voices of our community, not pinko hacks like Dyson and his cohorts!
Peace be unto you, brother.
I watched Mr. Morton on one of the PBS channels in the atlanta area and his comments validated what I have felt for some time. I am buying the product in hopes of learning more. I have served in law enforcement for 30 years and the negative has so plainly been high-lighted in the media. I know from my persoanl observations that many more blacks are educated, working and producing positve families, ideas, and culture than ever before. Why is that not high-lighted? I am a white male who remains concerned.
While channel surfing Sunday night I stumbled upon C-Span’s Q&A program. It was, to say the least, an enlightening and provocative presentation. Congratulations to Mr. Morton for having the foresight and fortitude to try and tackle such an important and complicated problem. “What Black Men Think” I’m confident has the promise, intellectual honesty and graphic reality to become the most important body of work since “Roots”.
As someone who works continuously to try and bring awareness and problem solving to what ails the Black community, especially the overrepresentation of young men in jails and prisons, there is little doubt that if we can manage to get thousands upon thousands of African American parents, community leaders, elected officials, teachers, clergy, journalists and young people themselves to actually take time …. sit down together … and view the Morton interview and then view the film we could conceivably start a national discussion and hopefully usher in a renewed renaissance in thinking and acting in 2008 and beyond.
Let’s get busy,
Bruce Lightner, Chairman
Martin Luther King Committee, Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your hard work and speaking up on our issues. I saw you last night on C-Span and you are truely an inspiration to me. Not only do you resemble Martin Luther King Jr. I feel you have his will to continue the struggle. We are in the process of starting a group called 1+1 to help the community in Tampa,FL. If we don’t help each other who will. If there is any info or literature you could send through e-mail it would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I believe the prison to college ratio is distorted because our prison sentences are much longer than we tend to stay in college.
I also recalled him refer to Mr. Morton as a one man band. Life is a puzzle, we must all play our part.
If we don’t help each other, who will?
1+1=?
Mr Morton, I was delighted to stumble upon your interview on C-Span. It was refreshing. I was also thrilled that you had the foresight to include conservatives in your piece. We need all of the minds in our community solving these problems. The jail/college question got me. I was wrong. I am sending a copy of your film to my sons. God bless you brother.
Mr. Morton, I watched you on C-Span and was very proud to see that there ARE some black men who are aware enough to know that something needs to be done to move us forward. Many discuss it and then go back to their comfortable surroundings and forget about the masses who are lost in society without any type of help from those who have made it. I am ashamed of what our race has come to. I don’t mean that in a mean way, but to even encounter a polite and courteous black man or teen makes me feel happy and proud now-a-days because there are so few. I feel that integration was a small snow ball but from 1964, it has rolled down the hill and is now an avalanche which has swallowed up all those in the way of it. I see no positive thing that has come from forcing people together or bussing children from one section to another. I watched it happen and was happy that I had already graduated because I knew that people were going to get hurt and that it would not be the majority race. Our black people were hurt from the very beginning. When you take poor as church mice ghetto children and place them in ‘Vanstory Hills,’ you are going to make some very angry children become even more angry and self-esteem-less. I pray that my open communication does not anger anyone, but that it opens dialog for change. I am ove 60 and I have seen a lot and I believe I can bring some positive insight to the situation. God bless! Peace & Love to all.
I also just happened to tune into the Q&A program and found your film and the discussion to be very informative and thought-provoking. I would like other people to view your film, hear your comments, and as you said, begin engaging in dialogue. I think there are many positive attitude readjustments and subsequent actions that could come out of this. I commend you Mr. Morton from bringing these issues to the forefront. Good luck with your future plans.
Also, just FYI - I’m not African-American, but I am concerned about the influence of hip-hop music/culture in my Native-American community and the potentially negative effects it may have by influencing our youth about intolerance and stereotyping. I would like to learn more about the different perspectives on African Americans’ portrayal in the media and how to teach young, impressionable minds to think critically about such issues. I definitely appreciated your ideas and your viewpoints.
Conservative revisionism hits the black community. I watched a little of Mr. Janks Cspan spot and came away disturbed. This morning I googled the film title and came to this blog. Now I have gotten the gist of the documentary, (without having seen it I admit), but Mr. Janks, (and his coMcwhorts), apparently blame the “government” and the “media” for the misperception of black men - *yawn*. If Mr. Janks really wants to be objective, instead of just swilling the kool aid, then of course his next documentary should address the nefarious impact of the conservatives’ war on drugs and religion on the black community, not unique to the black community, but the current real problems. First, just skim “God is Not Great”, (C. Hitchens), then contemplate the following: What single issue united William F. Buckley, the godfather of conservatism, and Ira Glasser, ex-head of the ACLU? Answer: Ending drug prohibition. Religion and Drugs are united too. Religion is a mass hallucination that allows people to believe that there is something other than life. While making a joyful noise, believers put off for another day what needs to be urgently addressed now. The more piety the more procrastination. This has been going on in the black community for over a hundred and fifty years! Second, drug prohibition, like alcohol prohibition - a completely failed policy, is the basis for 90% of the case law that has shredded the fourth amendment which now reads: We are throwing this young black man in jail (forever) because under the totality of the circumstances, the police acted in good faith, and if they didn’t it was only harmless error. (W. Rehnquist) Drug prohibition is the gift that keeps on giving, no one is immune to its charm and easy money, even though if you read Freakonomics you discover that most drug dealers live at home with their mothers and earn on average - less than the minimum wage. Just remember who built Las Vegas and where that money came from. Now there is some money to follow! Drugs also provide a personal sanctuary that allows anyone to avoid their cruel reality - a perfectly understandable and universal palliative - making this basic need illegal is disgusting and has rent the black community asunder. Now if education is the only way out, how in the world could Mr. Janks suggest that the government, i.e. the sole source for an affordable education, be taken down? Second, yes the media sensationalizes crime, much of which over the past 30 years stems from consequences of the drug war, which has dispartelty affected the black community, but contrary to the implciations of the right wing, who runs on a platform of “Law and Order”? I.e. which party benefits and has benefited from a constant barrage of arbitrary mayhem? Whose last name sounds like Murder…? If the effect of this DVD is to allow the Republican menace (conservatives) more time to destroy this country, then Janks must be challenged. Making more black people, homophobic, anti-intellectual, xenophobic, reactionary and comfortable saying to hell with the unfortunate (i.e. the five pillars of conservatism) is NOT going to help anybody.
Thank you Janks for a consice and direct debunking of the Black men in college vs jail myth. You do it without anger and with positive subleness.As a sel-described “regular guy” on C-Span last night, you inspire me to want to despell some other myths about us regarding family, black women, children, and political views. Yes we can be the “edge” of the coin, and most of us from parents who wer married long time and are now in our early fifties are JUST that. I haven’t watched the whole move yet, but it is high on my “to do” list.
I caught you program, and let me say it was one of the best on TV. When as black male are we going to quit paying lip service to our problem and seek ways to fix them? I fill like our black leadership has forgotten from where they came from.
I believe it is time we as black male take back all the things that was fought so hard for in the civil right movement It is hard to get todays young black males to understand that there is no future in becoming a ward of the State. we must seek better ways of solving our problems.As a black male we do not need white society to tell us that we have the highest prison rate and out of wed birth rate.
God knows there is enough blame to go around, and everything that goes wrong in black society is not cause by whites. The majority of black people problem is crestive by blacks. Let us except the challenge today to make a change in black society. Let us start exchanging ideas and way to fix the problems that faces black America
here is my email address for those out there that is will to make a change.I deal with youth all the time, and would love to hear from you. I can be reached at citofcomp@go.com. Mr. mortin have give us a platform to work from, because now we know that thgere is a problem.
I hope to hear from all real black men out there that is sick and tired of the negative image of black males. A hardy Bravo Zulu to Mr.Martin
First and foremost, Mr. Janks Morton I must applaud you for taking a step that is critical to the improvement of OUR blackcommunity. Your interview or should i say OUR interview on C-Span last night had me boiling over with expectancy! (OUR = all who feel the same way you feel Mr. Morton) Here i am a 23 year old African -American women, a wife (legally),a mother of a 3 year old, and a college student. As i write this comment i find myself almost frustrated because there’s so much to say. I’m crying out for OUR black men, OUR black women ,and OUR black children. Many of OUR great leaders are dying off . It’s refreshing to see new positive leaders arise. For the last year Ifound myself saying “WHO WILL BE OUR VOICE FOR THIS UNTOWARD GENERATION”? Mr. Morton after viewing your interview i have come to the realization that OUR GENERATION IS NO LONGER HOPELESS. YOU have started the beginning of a major movement.I will be OUR voice, all who tuned in i challenge you to be OUR voice one day at a time. I will start with doing better with my education. After watching the interview I felt like driving down streets this morning and screaming “WAKE UP”. THERE’S MORE TO LIFE. I will buy the dvd AND START gathering groups together to view it. Hek if no one will come to me then i will go to them. That’s how passionate i feel about it. Knowlegde is power,but if you don’t do anything with it or share your knowledge with others it only benefits yourself . Let’s stop being selfish and crabs in a bucket. It’s time to uplift OUR black community’s. If you see trash on the street pick it up, If the grass needs to be cut, you cut it! If a crime happens you report it.
Mr. Morton i’m interested in being part of this movement please keep me updated with the progress of your film .
FOREVER BLACK AND LOVING IT
The documentary is interesting in theory, and I feel it will be a subject of a prolonged examination of the situation. With so many ills in our house it is true we as a people are in a critical state. If men could just own up to the part they have not played in the black family that would be the first step in healing the women and the children.
HOW DARE WE COME TO A CONCRETE OPINION WITH OUT FIRST REVIEWING THE FILM. Yes this is American and the free speech is fine. This is the problem with the black community every one’s fighting against each other instead of WORKING TOGETHER!
Mr Morton, my name is Chris Michael, I was up late last night and I had happened to see your show and you were discussing the topic of racism among the community of Americans.
I was studying what you had to say and you are right, there is a problem in the community with stereotypes and classifications. I believe classifications are a gateway toward stereotypes and I also believe that they will not go away due to how we are raised as children.
As a child we are taught the fundamentals and building blocks to set up our own classification for the future. For example being taught that a banana is a banana, we would not call it a pear. The child then learns that the banana is in fact a banana and it’s classifications that follow it can be recognized, so therefore that child wouldn’t relate the banana toward anything else.
Children also learn about different types of people, some are light skin, some darker, some are old, some are of youth, and that nearly every hair color and face is distinctive. The child starts recognizing certain traits and attributes toward different types of people, animals, and objects. Thats how children indicate the truth and facts around them. Children, the base of our society, observe us and take mental notes about everything. So, when children are raised in different scenarios and when they have to adapt to a different scenario they aren’t familiar with everything they thought was truth. So if two different children meet, they’ll be taking mental notes about one another. They don’t understand that everyone is nearly the same and that different scenarios affect the way a person reacts and thinks. But ignorance and stupidity (also classifications) mold us to think that stereotypes are real. And once we think the stereotype is real we’ll start trying to point them out more often. Repetition is the best way to learn. So when people hear that they are something their not over and over again they’ll start to believe it. If you tell a beautiful person they are ugly they’ll try to find every attribute upon their body that is ugly. So in order to destroy racism you have to destroy classifications such as beautiful, ugly, tall, short, skinny, fat, and everything else used to describe someone and the situation. If we keep saying racism exists that will open up the fact that it’s okay. If we keep swearing how is someone supposed to have a clean mouth?
The whole topic is simple yet so confusing because it is already out of control.
Dear Janks,
If Jesus Christ was a black man, he would be just like you. Somehow
you have absorbed the very nature of Jesus Christ and the God in me can see the God in you. Your movie was so touching and so true.
I would like to make one showing that religion has hidden the gospel with all their manmade traditions and commandments. Jesus’ message never did get
off the ground, but with people like you I think it has a chance!
I am so impressed with your work of love and care.
You truly are loving your neighbor as yourself and speaking up so changes can be made in the way we treat each other.
mbe is on point. Religion is our downfall. It separates people and divides communities. Education is okay but we don’t share it with each other. Tuskegee University is in Macon County Alabama. The school system is second from the bottom in Alabama rating just ahead of Lownes County where the black panther hail from. What the hell is going on?
I called you about one-half hour ago. You are very busy so I scrolled your website and saw basically what I wanted to ask, the responses to last night. I am doing research on Emotional Responses and the Religious Life. I noticed that many responders did not clearly indicate an awareness that you weren’t trying to solve any social problem, rather, “unlocking the block” to rational thinking, particularly blacks. Self image problems for whites are pretty common too, as you know. Of course I know that wasn’t the point last night. Have I stated that correctly? If I have, it was very effective for me, At 80 years of age and in the ministry the latter part of the boom years I am quite familiar with the emotional reaction described in your program last night. Thank you
Janks,
Thank you . . . I’ve told all my friends.
I have spread the word via email to some of my friends. I saw you (Janks) on CSPAN last night and had the audio from your interview in the backround as I was working. I live in Houston, Texas and I wish there was some way to get this film shown somewhere here in town.
I feel enlightned and I am glad that this dialogue has started. I think it was very brave of you to put this out there for ALL to see and hear. I will order a copy before the end of the week.
THANKS AGAIN JANKS.
At last! — recognition that there is grammatical and eloquent commentary and leadership within the black community that thinks independently and produces brilliant documentaries that shame the Michael Moore commentariat. To a Juan Williams, one wishes Mr. Morton could have added a Bill Cosby, a Ward Connerly, a Harold Ford and many other black _thinkers_ who, one hopes, will finally displace the Al Sharptons, Jesse Jacksons, Cornell Wests and Julian Bonds, as well as those who preach that serious attention to manners and scholarship is “jus’ actin’ white”. When Condoleezza Rice, Richard D. Parsons, Colin Powell and Vernon Jordan (all of whom knew their fathers) are at least as well-known and well-respected as (and healthier than) “Wilt” and “Magic”; when black boys put as much time and effort into their studies as into their “hook shot” we can expect even greater progress. (All this from a 78-year-old Caucasian who claims status as an honorary Black Man and wishes to see and hear _much_ more from Janks Morton than just the little bit on C-SPAN last night — his insights and humor should be put to much more use on most any subject, but the one he chose is a great start).
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It was the weekend and I love to check out what’s happening on Q&A. I was immediately drawn into the conversation. ( I stopped watching the LPGA to continue with Q&A)
I know that your work was devinely guided, because God always shows up at the right time. Never one minute too soon or too late. He knows exactly when we are ready for a message of such importance.
The quality of the material was outstanding. The thought behind each question was so perfectly expressed. I have read all of the comments on the blog to this point and I think that all of us are in agreement ( save one or two) that this film is what we all need now. For too long we have all lived with the Great Society mentality. Having grown up in the 60’s and been a student of government, it was amazing to see that everyone bought into the the idea that we were entitled to have all of our needs met.
My mother was a single mother with 5 children. Not once did she ask any government agency for assistance. She just worked as many jobs as needed to make sure her children had food and clothes. (most, I might add, were purchased at the Next to New store.) She was self reliant and knew that because she was persistent her children would be well taken care. ( She, also knew the importance of the tithe and God’s faithfulness.)
Janks, I don’t care what color a person is or what their socio-economic status is, we live in the greatest country the world have ever seen. And because of people like you and all the people that saw and will purchase your video this will make a difference like the country hasn’t seen in 40 years.
It is time for all of us to pull up our socks and step up to the plate. We all can make a difference one person at a time.
Thank you so much for all your work. God Bless You and God Bless the greatest country in the world, AMERICA.
By the way, I’m a 50 something white middle class women that cares what happens to ALL God’s children.
I too came across the C-SPAN interview while channel surfing, and caught it right on time. Outstanding. Thank you for your earnestness and honesty, exposing our ugly underbelly without anger, shame or equivocation…and all these 1980’s-and-onward wannabe afroradicals elsewhere in this blogline can just flush it, and go do some more reading and praying…their young asses don’t have a clue, really, into the most profound references you make toward historical black identity, black action, black power and black pride. They’ll learn, hopefully, if they can just get over themselves, this tv/movie mentality, and deal with themselves and each other with honesty—simple honesty and integrity, just as you have endeavored to do with this video…(I just bought it on Amazon); then, in our communities, we’ll have, as Sly Stone wrote, “youth and truth are making love/take that for a starter…dying young is hard to face/selling out is harder”…
HJJazz
Mr. Morton,
I found your interview on c-span by accident, and it was a fortunate accident. I applaud your efforts and hope that it motivates some black men to improve their lives.
I am accustomed to Brian Lamb’s questions, and I thought he was attempting to draw out information so that others who watched my try to replicate or even improve upon what you have already done. I don’t see a conspiracy under every rock and tree.
Good luck and keep on moving forward.
mde ,you are so far off. it is sad to read the scribbling and babbling nonsense of one who obviously has bought into the lies that are exposed by Mr. Morton. i feel bad for you…really, i do. you honestly think that religion is bad but drugs are good? our government is wrong for prohibitting people from abusing drugs? do you think that addiction and the problems it causes is a good thing? if you ever gave Jesus a real chance to make a change in your life, you wouldn’t feel the way you do….and your “cruel reality” would be a great existence without the need for drugs. i’ll pray for you.,
Mr Morton,
I was and am so impressed with your film and comments with Mr Lamb last evening. I am a sixty-five year old Black female and I can honestly say that I’ve never been so impressed with an intelligent Black man as I was last evening.
You made us all PROUD!!! I sure hope that your film is viewed by the Black community, male and female. I am so glad to hear a refreshing voice from the wilderness. Keep up the good work.
I am Black, I am Yellow, I am White, I am Brown, I am Red. I am Human.
We are far more Related to one another than we’re not.
Yet we seek the most intricate ways to divide ourselves. Dualism is the Great Lie.
Your Feelings are not Who you Are — do not let them make your Choices for you.
Your Politics, your Ideologies and your Opinions are Irrelevant, especially when it comes to Loving your Neighbor.
Thank you, Mr. Morton. Your message of Peace, Practicality, Courage and Commitment resonates in the True Hearts of all Humans. Do not let the Plagues of Vanities deter you from your Message.
Saw the piece on C-Span ordered the film today.
I saw the C-Span interview and it left me feeling hopeful. I’m 46 years old and I work for a the MTA in NYC and I run my own small business as well. I’m glad to see like minded people who understand what REAL black people are all about.
I grew up poor & black but NOT STUPID. I’m confident that very soon; young SMART blacks will wake up and begin to turn their backs on the foolish amongst us. When I was growing up…teenage pregnancy, criminal activity, drug use, ghetto behavior, lazyness and general stupidity were not to be emulated. Those who continue to follow a path of ignorance will perish…it’s that simple.
I’ve ordered the DVD…Good job Janks !!!
Kevin T - I can guide you directly to the “inner city” in Baltimore. In east BaltimoreI suggest you stand at the corner of Mounument Street and Montford Ave ( the street where I lived and watched turn into a ghetto) and when your done and aren’t dead from a drive by shooting, then go to the west side of Baltimore to McCullough st and Pennsylvania Avenue, where you are eve more likely to be shot.
NEW FILM PROJECT FOR JANKS MORTON (or anyone brave enough to attack the myths):
Those who support our current immigration policy are of the same mind-set as Civil War Democrats who fought to perpetuate slavery.
THE MYTHS: Opponents of the recently failed immigration law are xenophobic and racist.
THE TRUTH: 1) Immigration policy past and recently proposed perpetuates a contemporary version of slavery.
2) Our immigration policy sustains a subclass of underpaid, under educated who are economically oppressed by agribusiness.
3) This subclass of illegals essentially work for slave-wages; and as argued by Southerners before the Civil War, “It is necessary for our economy.”
4) Our policies ask us to promote the existence of this subclass by not enforcing current immigration law and not maintaining boarder integrity (no new laws required if the old enforced).
5) Politicians favoring these policies insult our intelligence by feigning sympathy for these workers.
6) In this free country, some of these workers will unavoidably become upwardly mobile, thus a continuous new supply of illegals must be maintained and some version of amnesty devised that will secure and encourage this flow.
7) Our policies vis-a-vis Latin American countries and our southern boarders enable these countries to avoid the economic consequences of their corrupt governments. Consequently, we prolong economic deprivation and delay attainment of full human rights and economic opportunity for the citizens of these countries.
ALAN,
Sorry you felt the need to insult me, and really your comments do not deserve a response, BUT, because I am so concerned that Mr. Morton’s DVD will ultimately be a veiled fund raising attempt for conservatives who hate government - at the expense of the black community (and the rest of the country) - I feel compelled. I am also sorry that I got you upset, discussion of god does that. I realize my insights will not change your mind because as a religionist, you are used to really, really, really “believing” things without evidence or proof, hence, no evidence or proof will work on you. (see Jonathan Swift)
If you care to investigate my allegations about the war on drugs’ impact on the black community there is plenty of that, I only paraphrase my friend. So don’t pray, read. Praying is just ceremonial wishing. And yes the “impact” of religion is bad, very, very bad, on the black community and any half-baked objective investigation would show that. As for do I think drugs are “good”, I don’t recall saying that, I said the “impact” of the drug war was bad, very, very bad. Mr. Morton’s DVD is about “impact” on the black community. This really isn’t the forum to discuss drugs but suffice it to say drugs are chemicals; they don’t know how to be good or bad. Plus, from time in memoriam, humans have used psychoactive drugs to alter their consciousness’, so a little perspective would be helpful. (See Andrew Weil) The most harmful drugs are legal and regulated, because of the influence (no pun intended) of big institutions. The Catholic church had enough clout to protect wine, and baseball owners allowed beer to be consumed, oh, and don’t forget, if it weren’t for tobacco you wouldn’t be writing anything here because there wouldn’t be a United States government to complain about. Plus beer was distilled at least 7000 years ago. I think you need to realize that drugs are just chemicals and then research the impact of truly harmful chemicals i.e. salt, for one, sugar, fat, if you did so objectively, without belief and bias, you would find that opiates would be way, way down on the list. But again, my point in raising the issue of drugs was to parse out Mr. Morton’s apparent conclusion that seems to be the same tired canard cooked up by flaccid Reaganites: that government is the problem. It is not the government it is the policy or the administration that can be the problem. For instance, during the 80’s the crack epidemic, homelessness, and AIDS spread precisely because of this conservative anti-government whining and hysteria. That is - nobody did anything to help anybody else! (see Ted Kennedy or WWJD indeed???) So, no scribblin’ and babblin’ nonsense here, just opinion backed with personal insight, something you seem to be familiar with too, right?
Peace to you brother
Thanks Mr. Morton for doing this film. I have concerns with it, especially the black conservative do-nothings in the film.
But I don’t doubt your intentions on bit, despite them. I’ve bought the DVD, and await the next installment.
PS., thanks for addressing one of the concerns on my blog.
Regards,
Caged Lion
I caught the tail end of Janks Morton being interviewed by Brian Lamb on CSPAN’s Q&A program (see link below). I was quite moved by this man’s effort. I also intend to purchase Mr. Morton’s movie in an effort to support his message and spread it to as many friends as possible.
One disappointing point, Mr. Morton directs people to Amazon.com to purchase his movie. Several of our leaders, and I do view Mr. Morton as a leader, often produce great bodies of work and then chose to distribute them through a vehicle that’s not black owned. The most immediate example that comes to mind is Tavis Smiley’s, The Convenant. Tavis spent a weekend talking about the State of the Black Union, partly about creating and supporting black businesses and when it came it time to sell his book, he promoted Amazon.com like there was no tomorrow. Yes, Amazon probably sponsored this State of the Black Union, but Tavis has enough pull to make his sponsors do it his way (or does he?).
I encourage Mr. Morton to reach out to smaller, black-owned business as his main means of distribution. I understand Amazon can get What Black Men Think distributed to more people and faster, but I suggest Mr. Morton put 2 or 3 black-owned distribution options on his site to give people the choice of purchasing from Amazon or from a black-owned distributor.
Anyway, I’ll get off my soapbox. Mr. Morton, your work is important, your docu-log needs to be seen, and I thank you for your community leadership.
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=200322-1&tID=5
Mr. Morton,
Are you avalible to speak to young Black men, high school age? I am on the Board of Education in my community.
Our Superintendent of Schools stated that many of our Black men are not reading a grade level some are as low as 3rd grade when they are sent to the high school. We are working on this as a district but I believe that the missing piece is the fact that these young men don’t believe in themselves. If you are at all interested please contact me.
Personally, I am tired of “Us” the Black Community waiting for someone else to solve our problems. Thanks for your hard work.
Get some more disks produced Amazon is all out I check this morning.
I saw the several clips from your works and was very happy with the underlying theory. So you need to chellenge each Black Man in America to “DO What You Can Do” Love Your Wife, Love Your Kids, Stand Up in Church, Stand Up in Your Community, Speak out against the negative press releases in your local areas.
I erased the first comment I had written because it spelled out several problematic condidtions of Black America. But the bottom line is this.
Until the Black Man realizes the the most important things he can do is take care of The Black Woman so she can take care of his children, we as American Africans will always the underdog and society will always be able to wipe any title on us they want to because our men are not taking care of us.
When I speak of taking care of the Black Female, I mean that he is faithful, not running two or more women, clean;does not have a drinking or drug problem; has pride about himself, respects hisself and his lady, and lastly has faith in his God, family, and wife.
Far too long has the Black Man set back and watched his community go down hill.
So now that we have one more don’t believe the “hype” theory uncovered, Black Man what are you going to do about it . What are you going to do about it Mr. Morton? We have had the million man march and a multitude of other inventions in my life time but none of them have meant anything.
Just get back to your communities and homes, Then Do What You Can Do, (Whatever it is) that will eventually make everything better. Just like doing nothing made everything eventually bad. Learn to love yourself, then try loving someone else.
Love to my Whole Community,
Jackie
Mr. Janks Morton: Two thumbs up (if I had four hands - four thumbs up) - I watched the c-span interview - orderd the film and watched it today — am ordering some additional ones to share. Regards, Dick (8/23/2007)
I guess I won’t be ordering some to share - it is currently unavailable — we will try again. Regards, Dick (8/23/2007)
I would like to purchase this film. It is not available at Amazon, where else can I order this film?
Mr. Morton,
Excellent job! I believe in your message and will do everything I can to spread it using my magazine (Family Digest - see http://www.FamilyDigest.com) and other websites (see http://www.BlackMENBlog.com).
The truth has always been: (1) If someone else does everything for us, and we do nothing for ourselves - we will fail. But (2) If nothing is done for us by others, but we do everything for ourselves - we will succeed.
Waiting for others to do something for us or listening to the siren song of politicians or self-proclaimed/media-proclaimed “leaders” who are rewarded for encouraging us to believe that others will or should do for us — is, obviously, fool’s gold.
We can change our destiny if we determine to 100% own our destiny. We can and must strengthen our families, relationships, children and communities.
We have not revered the truth. As such, we have embraced the lies about us.
Your, “What Black Men Think” embraces the truth!
I would like to interview you about your film for a feature in Family Digest Magazine. If you are interested, please email me.
Thank you for what you have done. I wish you continued success.
Darryl L. Mobley - Founder + Publisher
http://www.BlackMENBlog.com
Family Digest Magazine
http://www.FamilyDigest.com
Congratulations to everyone involved in this fine, courageous work. We must do everything we can to spread this word, and I want to help.
One small thing: can you tell me how I can obtain or produce an image of “African American Deaths in 2003″ (the “mystery” version) suitable for use as a poster?
–DF
albert murray, omini-american and thinker, say it best more than 30 years go…
“LIKE MOST OTHER INTELLECTUALS & MOST OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, SEEM TO HAVE MISSED WHAT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF THE BLUES TRADITION: IT IS THE PRODUCT OF THE MOST COMPLICATED CULTURE, & THEREFORE THE MOST COMPLICATED SENSIBILITY IN THE MODERN WORLD • IN TERMS OF CULTURAL ASSIMILATION • THE BLUES IDIOM AT ITS BEST OMINI-AMERICAN • THAT IS PART YANKEE, PART BACKWOODSMAN, PART INDIAN, PART NEGRO, & PART REBEL • PRECISELY BECAUSE IT SOUNDS AS IF IT KNOWS THE TRUTH ABOUT ALL THE OTHER MUSIC IN THE WORLD & IIS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BETTERN ALL OF THIS NONSENSE ABOUT BLACK GOOD GUYS & BAD GUYS IN THEIR VARYING SHADES OF MILITANCY & CLASS ORIGIN & STATUS • WHAT IS OFTEN FORGOTTEN IS THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM • SO FAR AS WHITE PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED, THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY, RADICAL, & DEVASTATING ACTION ANY USA NEGRO CAN ENGAGE IN IS TO COMPETE WITH ALL OTHER AMERICANS FOR THE STATUS, EMPLOYMENT, TOTAL SOCIAL EQUALITY, & BASIC POLITICAL POWER”
TRAGIC OPTIMISM MEANS THAT ONE IS, & REMAINS, OPTIMISTIC IN SPITE OF THE TRAGIC TRIAD WHICH CONSISTS OF THE ASPECTS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE WHICH MAY BE CIRCUMSCRIBED BY: (1) PAIN; (2) GUILT; & (3) DEATH
mr jank’s well thought-out blues aside…
the fact remains that there is a ‘massive vile, deranged & criminally-insane’ black predator terrorist’ class operating…
99.9% of majority negroid ethnic communities of the usa — which…
IN A VERY REAL, CONCRETE & DOCUMENTED WAY – ARE THE “PRIMARY SOURCE & ROOT CAUSE” OF THE “CIVIC, ECONOMIC, INTELLECTUAL & SOCIAL” POVERTY AMONG THE DARKER UNDERCLASS OF USA & DESTRUCTION OF MOST MAJORITY USA NEGRO COMMUNITIES!
IF “DARKER AMERICAN PREDATOR THUG” CRIME RATES — WERE THE SAME AS THAT OF — “PALE NON-NEGRO ETHNIC THUG” CRIME RATES…
VILE, CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICAN PREDATOR TERRORISTS OF USA WOULD DESTROY < $3.5 BILLION OF POTENTIAL ECONOMIC WEALTH IN THE USA’S NEGRO COMMUNITIES EVERY WEEK SINCE THE LATE 1970′S (INSTEAD OF $18 BILLION)…
WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF ‘VILE, DERANGED, CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICAN TERRORISM’ WITHIN USA’S MAJORITY NEGRO COMMUNITIES ANNUALLY SINCE THE 1980’S…
IF DARKER AMERICAN THUG’S CRIME RATES WERE THE SAME AS PALE NON-NEGRO ETHNIC CRIME RATES — VILE, CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICANS EXECUTE “WITHOUT DUE PROCESS-OF-LAW” < 1,400 NEGROES EVERY YEAR (INSTEAD OF 10, 000 NEGRO CITIZENS)…
IF DARKER AMERICAN THUG’S CRIME RATES WERE THE SAME AS PALE NON-NEGRO ETHNIC CRIME RATES — VILE, CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICANS BRUTUALLY RAPES < 18,000 NEGROES EVERY YEAR (INSTEAD OF 90,000 NEGRO CITIZENS)
IF DARKER AMERICAN THUG’S CRIME RATES WERE THE SAME AS PALE NON-NEGRO ETHNIC CRIME RATES — VILE, CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICANS ARM-ROB < 60,000 NEGROES EVERY YEAR (INSTEAD OF 300,000 NEGRO CITIZENS)
IF DARKER AMERICAN THUG’S CRIME RATES WERE THE SAME AS PALE NON-NEGRO ETHNIC CRIME RATES — VILE, CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICANS VIOLENTLY ASSAULTS < 120,000 NEGROES EVERY YEAR (INSTEAD OF 600,000 NEGRO CITIZENS)
IF DARKER AMERICAN THUG’S CRIME RATES WERE THE SAME AS PALE NON-NEGRO ETHNIC CRIME RATES — VILE, CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICANS INFLICT “DESTRUCTIVE” PROPERTY CRIMES AGAINST < 400,000 NEGROES EVERY YEAR (INSTEAD OF 2,000,000 NEGRO CITIZENS)
IF VILE, DERANGED & CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICAN THUG’S CRIME RATES — WERE THE SAME AS — PALE NON-NEGRO ETHNIC PREDATOR” CRIME RATES…
VILE, CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICANS OF USA INFLICT < 600.000 “SERIOUS & VIOLENT” CRIMES WHICH DESTROYS < $180 BILLION OF POTENTIAL ECONOMIC WEALTH IN USA’S NEGRO COMMUNITY EVERY YEAR…
INSTEAD OF 3,000,000 “SERIOUS & VIOLENT” CRIMES AGAINST NEGRO CITIZENS AT A ECONOMIC COST OF $900 BILLION EACH YEAR!
VILE, DERANGED AND CRIMINALLY-INSANE DARKER AMERICAN PREDATOR T ERRORISM SOURCE DATA:
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