THE LOSS OF EXTENDED FAMILY SUPPORT: HOW THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE VILLAGE MENTALITY HURTS BLACKS!

The Black community in America has long held a unique strength in its extended family support systems, a cultural inheritance from our ancestors that was crucial to our survival during and after slavery. When we were ripped from our homelands, separated from our families, and forcibly stripped of our names, languages, and gods, we turned to each other for survival. Despite unimaginable suffering, the community developed a “village mentality,” a collective approach to life that saw every child as everyone’s child, and every person as a vital part of the whole. This village mentality was an unspoken pact of unity that carried Black families through the darkest days of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation.

Today, however, we find ourselves in a vastly different reality. The once-solid extended family networks that protected us are crumbling. Our children are no longer seen as the collective responsibility of the community, and many of us no longer identify with one another in the ways we once did. Instead of unity, we often see competition, distrust, and division within the Black community. This disintegration is not by accident, but rather by design, orchestrated by societal forces that have sought to dismantle our communities. These include media portrayal, government policies, and the destructive influences of assimilation into a dominant culture that has little regard for our well-being. As we turn our backs on the practices that once sustained us, we edge closer to a collective extinction that could forever sever us from our true potential as a people.
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