Are Black Men Being Fetishized: The Unspoken Reality - Dr. Talawa Adodo

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BlackCellent breakdown on Mandingo huntress behavior and the broader implications of fetishism as a form of bedroom colonialism. We must understand that what we are witnessing is not love, not respect, not even attraction in the true sense—but the dehumanizing continuation of a pathology rooted in slavery and krakkka domination. The legacy of the Mandingo narrative—as weaponized in film, literature, and daily life—is alive and well, shaping how non-Black women engage with Black men through a lens of objectification, due to the little krakkka inside of them.

As you rightly pointed out, political education must begin young. Our sons must be trained from early to recognize when they are being hunted—when their existence is being reduced to “cool,” “swag,” or “thickness.” Fetishism is not appreciation; it is exploitation. The so-called "attraction" often has nothing to do with you—and everything to do with the image they’ve been programmed to consume.

We also must name and call out the anti-Black mindset that leads some of our own to excuse and rationalize these dynamics. “She not white” is not the bar. The bar is: does this union reproduce Blackness? Does it support Black liberation? If not, then it is a virus or a parasite.

Political consciousness, cultural clarity, and historical memory must guide our relationships—not lust, loneliness, or low vibration thinking, which are all manifestations of bedroom colonialism.

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