About us
The Vulnerable Black Male is a space created to uplift, support, and inspire Black men and women with a lineage of slavery on the journey toward healing and wholeness. This platform confronts the impact of trauma and mental health struggles while reimagining Black identity in a positive, affirming light.
We believe vulnerability is not weakness, but strength — a powerful step toward breaking generational cycles and reclaiming self-worth. By opening space for dialogue, education, and collective growth, The Vulnerable Black Male seeks to dismantle stigmas, nurture resilience, and remind us that healing is possible, together.
"The keyword to remember always is potential, that which has not yet come to pass, but that which is always coming to pass." - Howard Thurman
This is more than a website — it is a community rooted in truth, love, and the belief that the study of our past is how we become aware of our present condition and how best to realize a pathway to a better tomorrow.
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Of Soul Stirring Words
Cathartic Realizations and Emotional Reparations
Of soul stirring words,
Of the creation of hallowed grounds;
In the mind.
Of expanded intellects,
And sparkling gleams of the Black forms eyes.
On toward higher planes of intellectual existence.
Of a refined mental and emotional disposition.
Of, or pertaining to, the manifest destiny of the Black beings preeminence.
Laboring though the harsh birth of a “New Negro”.
The contemporary representation of that which came before.
Broken out of the chains that kept it close to society’s hegemonic floor.
True to its divine form.
No longer lost in the labyrinth of a lesser mind.
Burdened brows raised to see the message;
That God gave Noah in the rainbow song,
No more water,
The fire next time.
Fearless Bucks
Releasing spears they are supposed to chuck.
Raised up on the hope that floats
Forcing society to lower its motes.
Maternal captives,
Captive maternal.
Captivating hearts and minds.
Igniting the light of the intellectual infernal.
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2025/01/27/read-poem-by-eddie-bennett/
Given the history of the Black Being,
there is a need to address the pain off of which society has been feeding.
Its history is full of trauma, negation, and neglect.
This is the reason for its deep-rooted mental unrest.
The denial of its pain on the American terrain has further influenced its ability to remain sane.
Become sane?
Move further away from the insanity of a society that denies its humanity.
Its relationship with itself is managed by another.
This depraved entity turns it into the “other”.
It becomes inferiorized by that which deems itself superior.
Drafted into an existential war of contrition with the nature of its existence.
Falling on the butt of “upright” swords on society’s hegemonic floor.
Attempts at the corporeal obliteration of its ontological core.
The pretense it has been indoctrinated to hide behind diminishes its self-concept, further
denigrated in a society rife with moral contempt.
Unable to uproot its identity from the society that denies its murderous intent.
Given the history of the Black Being,
there is a need to address the pain off of which society has been feeding.
The healing that society has been denying that Black folk have been needing.
Begging and Pleading.
Kneeling and Bleeding.
The keys to behold their own cathartic realizations,
the achieved goal of accepting the gifts of their emotional reparations.
To be the redeemed of an earth that denigrated and sullied its ontological, epistemological, and metaphysical conceptualization.