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Is the Black boy really falling or is this just more of the media's attempt to show the Black boy in a negative light? If he is falling, why? What role, if any, did the Civil Rights Movement have in the fall of the Black boy? What about welfare? Did the emancipation proclamation free the Black boy? What was Lincoln's real views on slaves? If the Black boy is falling, is there anything that can be done to stop his fall? If not, can his fall be cushioned? This book is written to generate conversation about the condition of the Black male in America and to help stop the Black boy from falling. An analysis of the situation with our youth reveals that it isn't the youth who's causing them to fall, it's the adult. Could many of our youth problems could be solved with the elimination of many of us adults? Fall means to leave an erect position suddenly and involuntarily to drop down wounded or dead. When you start to leave an erect position suddenly, you grab on to what or who's available. When you suddenly start to fall, you automatically reach out to stable yourself. If there is a jagged stick, fiery pole or even a rattlesnake within reach, self-preservation says you will grab it. There are different reasons a person may fall. Some of them are shaky or no foundation or a sudden impact from an outside force. The sudden impact could either be physical, emotional or mental. The Free-Falling Black Boy is falling, because he feels he has no foundation or that his foundation is shaky at best. This is the mental and emotional impact. Many Black adults seem to be hell bent on destroying the foundation of the Black child. I worked as a Student Service Coordinator at a private school. Some of the students were sitting out in the student lounge while I was doing some work in my office. It was your so-called Black History Month. A young Black male said, and I quote, I don't wanna hear nothin' 'bout no Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks ain got nothing to do with me. I listened to more of what was being said for a few minutes, then I went out among the students. I didn't mention what I'd heard them talking about. I started talking about history in general and I asked if any of them knew about Abraham Lincoln. They started talking together about how Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, because he didn't like the fact that Black people were slaves and about how he was a good man and so on. Abraham Lincoln never cared about Blacks being slaves. In fact, he owned slaves. He said that Blacks and whites could never be equal therefore, whites should be over Blacks. In The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy Basler quotes Lincoln as saying, Send them to Liberia, to their own native land. But, free them and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not allow this. In Lincoln's Debates with Douglass, Lincoln is quoted as saying, I will say then that I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and Black races; I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes nor of qualifying them to hold office nor to intermarry with white people. This is just a small portion of what Lincoln said on his views about Blacks being inferior. Yet, these young Black children see him as a hero, and they don't see Rosa Parks as worthy of being mentioned. Sagg but no Swagg

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