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If you look at survey results on important social issues without looking at race, you come to incorrect conclusions like, "There is a growing divide between the views of men and women on social issues! Oh no!"

But if you slice the survey participants into race and gender, you see that Black men's answers align more closely to women's answers than any other cohort of men, and in many cases, more closely to women overall than white women.

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I'll keep saying this until it sinks in:

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113024794157038728

The white US notion of masculinity is toxic, petty, violent, fearful, hurtful, and hateful. It's basically a grown man with the same emotions and selfishness as a 3 year old boy throwing a tantrum.

I'm OK if white people overall want to define that as masculinity for themselves, but don't put that on us. That's not how Black men define masculinity.

@mekkaokereke The reason this view is so discordant is that so many people's view of Black men is based on gangsta rap - base, aggressive, violent.

Which is funny since, as I learned from a post of yours from many months ago, gangsta rap is more popular among white people than it is among Black people.