Okay so…
After more thought about The Color Purple question, I’ve realized that I don’t have any straight black male friends who grew up in a predominantly black community, except for the “special” ones. When I say special, I mean that they went to private school or immigrated here from other countries. I don’t have any straight American-born black male friends who grew up in predominantly black communities and public schools. Why is that? I used to have a whole bunch when I was younger. In fact, all my friends were guys before I became an angsty teen. I still keep infrequent contact with a few of the ones I grew up around, but mostly they’ve all disappeared. I wonder what has happened to them. Am I in denial? Have they all become what the statistics say?
After more thought about The Color Purple question, I’ve realized that I don’t have any straight black male friends who grew up in a predominantly black community, except for the “special” ones. When I say special, I mean that they went to private school or immigrated here from other countries. I don’t have any straight American-born black male friends who grew up in predominantly black communities and public schools. Why is that? I used to have a whole bunch when I was younger. In fact, all my friends were guys before I became an angsty teen. I still keep infrequent contact with a few of the ones I grew up around, but mostly they’ve all disappeared. I wonder what has happened to them. Am I in denial? Have they all become what the statistics say?
