Socially Savant

We are losing great black men daily. We are facing tragic headlines on a daily basis. Black women are wearing tragedy on their faces and this time not as a mask but as a mood, a mode and state of being. Real black affectionate and present black men don’t get the right credit, and their appreciation or acceptance only appears once they have tragically let us. We have men who are not looking for glory or shine, but when we see them we criticize them for showing their families affection. Fathers who kiss their daughters on the lips are alienated and seen as paedophiles. When all they are actually doing is grooming their daughters to feel comfortable in their own skin. They are teaching their daughters how to respect themselves and know when its real love and when they are being played by the opposite sex. However we drive home on the negative energy surrounding these black men. I look at the late Nipsey Hussle and now the late Basketball legend Kobe Bryant. Both these men are blac...

What you are about to read about is one of the greatest joys and my happiness. You will get to explore the happy side of me and through the men around me. I am writing about my everyday men and how they impact me daily and they are the most incredible thing to happen to me, clichéd as that sounds. Originally this was going to be about my black men and then as I sat down to write this I realised that there are multifaceted and multiracial men in my life. From all walks of life and they contribute on multiple layers directly into the person that I am. It was actually inspired by the consistent 10 year friendship that I have with a friend called Andre. This friend of mine has a way of directing me into anther train of thinking. He also has a way of just making me calm down. For the longest of times my mother thought we were dating. She was most likely thinking I am going to give her coloured grandkids. However Andre has been a representation to me that not all men in my life leav...