Many of us hold the biggest space for our men (and sometimes our boys, but rarely at the expense of the men) in our collective hearts because we feel like they need it more than anyone else.īlack America’s version of “the big lie”-“the Black ass lie”-is that Black men have it worse than any other group of Black people.
This could just be chalked up to sexism and various other-phobias, but I think it’s deeper than that. But “the Black man” is too often coded language for “the cishet Black man” and the degree to which any and all other groups of Black people are suffering-that is up for debate.
