I studied Manchild in the Promised Land as a social studies compendium in college. It was published in 1965 as autobiographical novel. It was written by Claude Brown. It chronicles of the author’s coming-of-age story amidst poverty and violence in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s.
The same hold true for today. I see there’s a grave imbalance between needs of the boy child and the girl child needs. Both need serious and urgent attention from all sides. We need to giving child attention by gender and realized both needs equal amount of love and encourage to grow into healthy adults.
Originally published: 1965
Author: Claude Brown
Page count: 415
Genres: Novel, Biography, Autobiography, Autobiographical novel, Fictional Autobiography
Awards: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction
The Tears of the boy child
This book is pretty much saying the same thing years later.
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A. White, an award winning former librarian, who is also a long time member of Romantic Time and Publisher's Weekly. A. White has been writing for over fifteen years. She took classes in creative writing in college, specializing in ancient myths and legends. and later at a local community center while living in Chicago. In college she won the national contest to verbally list every country in the world, it's capital and ingenious language. Her works are mainly horror, fantasy, extreme, and sci-fi as well as, as some may says, "the truly strange predicament and puzzling." Books that I've written are "Clash with the Immortals, and eleven others which are part of the "Unholy Pursuit saga,". She has been working on the Chronicles since 2007. She wished to complete them all before introducing them to public so the readers wouldn't have to for the continuation to be written.
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I assure most people are not ready for this conversation. Equality is one sided topic. But who will wipe the tears of a boy child?
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A mother, that who will wipe the tears of a boy child. Wipe the tears of any child. Boy or girl. It may seems one sided but in truth it is not. The discussion of inequality for women and girls are perhaps 10,000 years over due.
As recent as the 20th century girls are just now being discussed and counted as valuable. whereas for centuries all parents wanted sons not daughter. Among the poor. A son still stand a greater chance at success than a daughter.
There was never any parts of the world which left male children in the elements to die while it was once a common practice in many societies pertaining female children.
I think it’s time many parts of the world let go of patriarchy. The social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property. Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage. It only benefits a selected few. It doesn’t actually benefit the vast majority of men.
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I agree equality is a one sided topic. Black women and girls are killed at the same rate as black men and boys but it hasn’t sparked a worldwide protest mainly because they aren’t considered as valuable as a man or boy. There’s a killer in California who killed them for 30 years before he was caught.
The question ‘should’ who will wipe the tears of a girl child? Not even black women protest these deaths because they’ve been conditioned by the male control society that females lives are worth less than males’ lives. Look at how the all holy books are written. All those begets, they didn’t even bother to record the women’s name. You would think the men birthed those male children by himself.
“A boy child cries a tear. A girl child cries as river of tears.”
Rachel Hightower author of “Girl Child In The UnPromised Land.”
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I see you read Rachel’s book. I remember that quote. “A boy child cries a tear. A girl child cries a river of tears.”
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Very true, a person is a person no matter the gender, it’s time we start addressing all these forms of injustices in equal measures
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I agree 100%. As ML King said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
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