According to Paul Hill, Jr (1989) being an African American man includes some of the following characteristics: Having the ability to assess objective reality in terms of the interests and welfare of Black people on personal, group, and Communal levels; Having the ability to transcend the traps of Eurocentric pathology; Placing supreme value on life and not participating in activities which negate life: Holding supreme the value of CHILDREN and FAMILY; Having the capacity to transcend restricted and devalued role sets and not looking to or depending upon hostile culture to provide affirmation of self-worth; Viewing Black women as subjects and objects (possessions) who are fully capable of contributing equally to the struggles for Black reasseration and liberation at every level; Maximally developing whatever talents, potentials, and capabilities one possesses in the interest of self, group, and communal advancement; Viewing ones children and those of others as the carriers of generational truths and cultural sovereignty and as the precious and replaceable gifts they are; Valuing all work and demeaning none; Lead by example not rhetoric; Developing in oneself the capacity to express the full range of human experiences and emotions. Afrocentric Theory and Applications, Volume I: Adolescent Rites of Passage, Nsenga Warfield-Coppock, Ph.D., 88-89, Baobab Publishing, Washington, D.C.
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