Ep. 144: Why are BLACK MEN so ANGRY? (Part 2) with Odi
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm so used to my needs not being met or I'm so used to compulsively performing masculinity. |
| 0:07.0 | The issue is that you do not want to be seen as incompetent. |
| 0:11.0 | You are engaging in people-pleasing behaviors. |
| 0:14.0 | We begin isolating little black boys very early. |
| 0:17.0 | We believe that's what makes them a man. |
| 0:19.0 | If you already know that this little black boy is going to have to face this from the world, |
| 0:25.6 | why would you replicate that trauma in your house? |
| 0:27.6 | Why would you not make your home a place of safety? |
| 0:30.6 | We believe that the pinnacle of masculinity is us being able to carry any way for any distance |
| 0:35.6 | without having to say anything about it. Right. A number of us is us being able to carry any way for any distance without being able, without having to say anything about it. |
| 0:39.0 | Right. |
| 0:39.2 | Right. |
| 0:39.4 | Right. A number of us as black men perpetuate self-neglect by telling that lie, right? |
| 0:47.1 | We negotiate our self-worth when we tell that lie. |
| 0:53.3 | We invalidate. We self-betray when we tell that lie. We invalidate. |
| 0:56.5 | We self-betray when we tell that lie. |
| 0:58.8 | Right. |
| 0:59.5 | Right. |
| 1:00.2 | Because what I believe that the underpinning of that response is, once again, I'm so used to my needs not being met or I'm so used to compulsively |
| 1:15.0 | performing masculinity in such a way where I have to present as strong. I have to present as put |
| 1:22.3 | together. I have to present as these things that if somebody were to ask me, do I need something? I'm supposed to say no. |
| 1:30.7 | I'm supposed to, no, bro, that's a fucking lie. Like, you know you're not cool. You know you're not good. |
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