August 15, 2025 • 13 mins
In this powerful episode of The Culture Collective ThoughtCast™, JuniorTheTruth™ sits down with special guest Thomas J. Few Sr. (thomasjfew.com) to uncover the most pressing threats to the stability and well-being of the Black American family. From generational challenges to cultural and social pressures, they explore the factors undermining family infrastructure and discuss strategies for preservation, empowerment, and resilience.
Tune in to gain critical insights, actionable ideas, and a deeper understanding of how Black families can strengthen their legacy and secure a future rooted in culture, unity, and purpose.
Keywords: Black family, Black culture, family stability, community empowerment, generational wealth, cultural truth, intergenerational support, social issues, Black American legacy, family infrastructure
Tune in to gain critical insights, actionable ideas, and a deeper understanding of how Black families can strengthen their legacy and secure a future rooted in culture, unity, and purpose.
Keywords: Black family, Black culture, family stability, community empowerment, generational wealth, cultural truth, intergenerational support, social issues, Black American legacy, family infrastructure
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And they got that home in them, and it is
what it is, like, it's just it just is what
it is. It is what it is, and I just
really believe that, you know, when it's all set and
when it's all said and done, Like, man, these dudes,
is they poking on somebody?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Say, brother, let's go ahead and say what it is. Brother,
Say they got that friendly pussy, Bro, they got that
friendly as pussy, Brother.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Pussy pussy is a way of life, Bro, It's a
I'm talking about bruh we I don't even know who
coined that, bro. Did I coin at or did you
coin it?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I don't know. It came up in the conversation though I.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Came in that ship came up eons ago. It was
a conversation though. Go back to them college days. It's
the wild time.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mm hmmmmmm.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
But them motherfucker's got that friendly And so I'm looking
at it like, man, I'm trying to tell you, man, like,
when it's all set and done, man, like this ship
is just it's crazy and it's out of control, and
all of it has negatively impacted the family. By negatively
(01:08):
impacted And then I think the thing because you have
to look at what is really happening, right, So we
are all preoccupied with this stuff. Like I said, we're
preoccupied on our individuality. We are preoccupied with the being
at odds with one another. Right. And now our kids
(01:32):
aren't covered. Our kids have never been this uncovered. Bro. Like,
they're uncovered. And what we're dealing with is this space
where our kids are uncovered. They're ill equipped, that they're
ill prepared. They are in a very vulnerable space, bro.
(01:57):
And it's all because of us, you know what I'm saying.
It's all because of us. And we have children who
are coming you know what I'm saying into adulthood and
first thing they doing is getting on psychotropic medications and
ship bro. Like it's crazy, bro Like, it's crazy stressed out,
you know what I'm saying. Can't they can't cope with life,
(02:20):
bro like this And we are so distracted and we're
so the kids are uncovered. Like that's the crazy thing.
I And with that being said, I saw this. I
don't know if you've seen this, but uh, Barack Obama
went on Michelle Obama and her brother's podcast and he
(02:40):
talked about black boys and this is where we're at
in the world right, and this is and and why
people can't see this for what it is? I don't know.
But he was talking about black boys, and he talked
about he feels that black boys need a gay male
in there. Like you, didn't hear nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I heard a sound bite, but I didn't listen to
the whole. I didn't listen to the conversation.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I wasn't I didn't even get where the context was
coming from.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But I heard the sound bite.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, he said that black that black males, black black
boys need to have a relationship with gay men, and
what and what and what was this reason behind this
and and and in order and I'm trying not to
(03:33):
in order for them to get Okay, okay, okay, I'm
a I'm a hold on. I don't even want to
speak for him. Hold on, since you did you did this, bro,
we're gonna say that you did this. Hold up. You
decided you wanted to come in here and put some
paint where it ain't so hold on, hold on, hold up,
(03:54):
the blunt saint rolled up? Hold up where we at? Boom?
Can we get on here? One? Two? One? Two? Yes, Lord,
hold on, let me get back here. Boom. You but
I think a lot of times boys need is not
just exposure to one.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Guy one dad.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
No matter how good the dad, he can't be everything.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And then that that boy may need somebody to give
give the boys some perspective on the dad. One of
the most valuable things I learned as as a guy
was I had a gay professor in college at a
time when openly gay folks still weren't out who became
(04:46):
one of my favorite professors and was a great guy
and would call me out when I started saying stuff
that was ignorant. You need that to show empathy and kindness.
And by the way, you need that person in your
friend group so that if you then have a boy.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Who is who's who's who's.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
There or non bin, they have it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
They have somebody that they can go Okay, I'm not
alone in this.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So so I'm still trying to understand why why specifically
black boys need this.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Mm hmm. Hey man, it's so much to unpack. Bro
with that and I've been cool on it, and I
waited till such a time as this to really talk
about it. Bro on his platform, he said empathy. He
said that you need that, it need a relationship with
(05:49):
a gay man to learn empathy and kindness.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So only a gay man can teach you empathy and kindness.
That's something that's something that's a straight man your father
can never teach you.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Like or how about this your mother, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Or anybody else in your circle. Why does it have
to be a gay man that has to teach you
empathy and kindness?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Your grandmother, your aunties, uncles. And he said that, and
what he said was and it's a lot that it's
a lot to unpack, man, And I ain't trying to,
you know, I know how, I know how, And this
is something for the cultures. I know how the culture
is about about Obama at the time when he was
(06:33):
in college. Bro, You we understand where the world was
at that time.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You understand that there was a lot of people who
were gay and you didn't know that they were gay,
and it was only one way to know that they
was gay. Tea. It's only one way to know that
they were gay.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Absolutely, there's only one way. Absolutely, there's only one way.
You talking about the sixty seventies, there's only when you
when people were running around and they were gay, it
was only one way for you to know that they
were gay.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Bro, birds of a feather flocked together.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And he even said it. He even said it that
it wasn't really a good time for them to be out.
So how did you know he was gay? M hm?
And he was your professor and you had what kind
of relationship with him?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, And he even said that, you know, these these
boys need that type of person so they can, you know,
especially if it's people that you know, feel like they're
that way, so they can feel like they're not the
only ones. They're not in these by theirself. Was he
was that kind of a soft kind of coming out
or something. I don't I don't know, man, it was
it was.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's a lot to unpack there, Bro.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's it's a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Man, it's a whole lot to unpack.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I haven't listened to that whole thing. So yeah, it's
a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Man, it's a whole lot to unpack. Bro.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, we're about to were about to get something in
his next book when to come out out. I'm gonna
tell you that on the verbs.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Heyn a, man, I'm telling you, And I was listening
to it because because you got to think even when
you was listening to it. You was listening to Michelle
Obama coaching. She was coaching even first when he was talking,
she was leading me. You feel me, there's a lot
to unpack, man, with that, with that, having a relationship,
(08:24):
actually knowing that somebody was then actually don't that they
were gay, having a relationship with no spending intimate time
with them to be able to be corrected when they
said something ignorant, like how many conversations were you having
with your professor? You feel me? How I was never
really in a space to be corrected by my professors
(08:46):
in a.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Personal I never got that close to any of my
professors ever, not on that level.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
No, right, right, And we and we both have done
a lot of school, bro, you know what I'm saying.
We got undergraduate degrees, you know, a couple. I got
two or three. I think I might have three bachelor degrees.
I got like three bachelor degrees. I got like shit,
a master's half, my dot DYM all but dissertations. As
far as my doctoral program, Like, hey, bro, we did
(09:12):
a whole lot of school. Never got that close to
a professor, never. Yeah, And I just know and even
when we were you know, coming up because we came
up in that air, like, Bro, you didn't the only
way that you knew somebody was it's only one way
(09:32):
to know. And it's a lot of people that you
suspected that you possibly thought, but it's only one way
to know, yep. And everybody didn't know. You know what
I'm saying, And it was that it was done that
way on purpose. So I just don't really understand what
the purpose of that was. But to come back to
our conversation, you heard it there. Our children are unprotected, bro.
(09:59):
You understand what I'm saying. And there are people who
are out running around who think like that and who
are that's their messaging? You feel me? Little boys need
gay men, huh.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, they need They need one in their.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Life, huh, to get to teach them empathy and compassion
and all of these things that you learn from your mother.
Like your mother taught you empathy and compassion. Your grandmother
teaches you and models empathy and compassion and caring and
love and so on and so forth. You man, So
(10:35):
I don't know, bro, but I'll tell you, the vulnerability
of our children is probably my third biggest threat to
our family, bro, because if we don't get it right
for our kids. It's over for us, Bro, It's over
for us. And I think we on the ropes because
our kids are not going to be They're not going
(10:56):
to be in a position to carry on our the needs. Bro.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Noah, we already see it, you know, like we said,
with these kids that are starting to become adult age
trying to transition into adulthood and get independence and all
that were already seeing it. It's a struggle. It's a
major struggle.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, it's a cold game, bro, So we don't.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Do something soon to start turning in trajectory around you
right like we're gonna it's gonna Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
A cold game. I ain't gonna hold you. It's a
cold game. Bro. All right, man, thank you man for
coming through. Bro. We we we we little bit over
our man, So we're gonna stop there. Man. I really
truly appreciate you. Bro. Tell the people how they can follow.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You, bro, a man, they can just find all my
platforms at time to see you seen your time to
see USR dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yes, indeed, man, I appreciate you, bro. Our ways and shit,
you know we're gonna chop it up on the back end.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yes, sir, salute to the family. Man. Thank y'all so much. Man,
thank you all so much for attending episode three, Man
and and and tapping in. I really truly genuinely appreciate you.
This was brought to you by the Black Gentleman Grooming Company.
We do have a line of our natural handcraft the
groomer products specifically with you in mind, so be sure
to come check us out www dot or black gen
dot com. This is Junior the Truth signing off Man
(12:09):
giving you your daily reminder to view your life like
a pair of dice until your life looks like a
pair of ice. Man, I'm a how born player made
if you don't know anything else about me. At the
end of the day, I gotta keep pushing baby.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
We off of the best grooming buds for you, for
you best sung, natural and handcrafted to we want to
help beer swag, swag us, stop class and luxury luxury. Man,
you got product self made for you the top quality.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yet let's get a start with the.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Black uhle Black Gut Company and competent you swag up
bag and stop glass and luxury and luxury. Yeah, Black Gentlemen,
I'm Black gay Company.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I go out the Luxury and
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Luxury located at www dot The Black gent dot com
And they got that home in them, and it is
what it is, like, it's just it just is what
it is. It is what it is, and I just
really believe that, you know, when it's all set and
when it's all said and done, Like, man, these dudes,
is they poking on somebody?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Say, brother, let's go ahead and say what it is. Brother,
Say they got that friendly pussy, Bro, they got that
friendly as pussy, Brother.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Pussy pussy is a way of life, Bro, It's a
I'm talking about bruh we I don't even know who
coined that, bro. Did I coin at or did you
coin it?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I don't know. It came up in the conversation though I.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Came in that ship came up eons ago. It was
a conversation though. Go back to them college days. It's
the wild time.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mm hmmmmmm.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
But them motherfucker's got that friendly And so I'm looking
at it like, man, I'm trying to tell you, man, like,
when it's all set and done, man, like this ship
is just it's crazy and it's out of control, and
all of it has negatively impacted the family. By negatively
(01:08):
impacted And then I think the thing because you have
to look at what is really happening, right, So we
are all preoccupied with this stuff. Like I said, we're
preoccupied on our individuality. We are preoccupied with the being
at odds with one another. Right. And now our kids
(01:32):
aren't covered. Our kids have never been this uncovered. Bro. Like,
they're uncovered. And what we're dealing with is this space
where our kids are uncovered. They're ill equipped, that they're
ill prepared. They are in a very vulnerable space, bro.
(01:57):
And it's all because of us, you know what I'm saying.
It's all because of us. And we have children who
are coming you know what I'm saying into adulthood and
first thing they doing is getting on psychotropic medications and
ship bro. Like it's crazy, bro Like, it's crazy stressed out,
you know what I'm saying. Can't they can't cope with life,
(02:20):
bro like this And we are so distracted and we're
so the kids are uncovered. Like that's the crazy thing.
I And with that being said, I saw this. I
don't know if you've seen this, but uh, Barack Obama
went on Michelle Obama and her brother's podcast and he
(02:40):
talked about black boys and this is where we're at
in the world right, and this is and and why
people can't see this for what it is? I don't know.
But he was talking about black boys, and he talked
about he feels that black boys need a gay male
in there. Like you, didn't hear nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I heard a sound bite, but I didn't listen to
the whole. I didn't listen to the conversation.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I wasn't I didn't even get where the context was
coming from.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But I heard the sound bite.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, he said that black that black males, black black
boys need to have a relationship with gay men, and
what and what and what was this reason behind this
and and and in order and I'm trying not to
(03:33):
in order for them to get Okay, okay, okay, I'm
a I'm a hold on. I don't even want to
speak for him. Hold on, since you did you did this, bro,
we're gonna say that you did this. Hold up. You
decided you wanted to come in here and put some
paint where it ain't so hold on, hold on, hold up,
(03:54):
the blunt saint rolled up? Hold up where we at? Boom?
Can we get on here? One? Two? One? Two? Yes, Lord,
hold on, let me get back here. Boom. You but
I think a lot of times boys need is not
just exposure to one.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Guy one dad.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
No matter how good the dad, he can't be everything.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And then that that boy may need somebody to give
give the boys some perspective on the dad. One of
the most valuable things I learned as as a guy
was I had a gay professor in college at a
time when openly gay folks still weren't out who became
(04:46):
one of my favorite professors and was a great guy
and would call me out when I started saying stuff
that was ignorant. You need that to show empathy and kindness.
And by the way, you need that person in your
friend group so that if you then have a boy.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Who is who's who's who's.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
There or non bin, they have it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
They have somebody that they can go Okay, I'm not
alone in this.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So so I'm still trying to understand why why specifically
black boys need this.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Mm hmm. Hey man, it's so much to unpack. Bro
with that and I've been cool on it, and I
waited till such a time as this to really talk
about it. Bro on his platform, he said empathy. He
said that you need that, it need a relationship with
(05:49):
a gay man to learn empathy and kindness.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So only a gay man can teach you empathy and kindness.
That's something that's something that's a straight man your father
can never teach you.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Like or how about this your mother, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Or anybody else in your circle. Why does it have
to be a gay man that has to teach you
empathy and kindness?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Your grandmother, your aunties, uncles. And he said that, and
what he said was and it's a lot that it's
a lot to unpack, man, And I ain't trying to,
you know, I know how, I know how, And this
is something for the cultures. I know how the culture
is about about Obama at the time when he was
(06:33):
in college. Bro, You we understand where the world was
at that time.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
You understand that there was a lot of people who
were gay and you didn't know that they were gay,
and it was only one way to know that they
was gay. Tea. It's only one way to know that
they were gay.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Absolutely, there's only one way. Absolutely, there's only one way.
You talking about the sixty seventies, there's only when you
when people were running around and they were gay, it
was only one way for you to know that they
were gay.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Bro, birds of a feather flocked together.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And he even said it. He even said it that
it wasn't really a good time for them to be out.
So how did you know he was gay? M hm?
And he was your professor and you had what kind
of relationship with him?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, And he even said that, you know, these these
boys need that type of person so they can, you know,
especially if it's people that you know, feel like they're
that way, so they can feel like they're not the
only ones. They're not in these by theirself. Was he
was that kind of a soft kind of coming out
or something. I don't I don't know, man, it was
it was.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's a lot to unpack there, Bro.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's it's a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Man, it's a whole lot to unpack.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I haven't listened to that whole thing. So yeah, it's
a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Man, it's a whole lot to unpack. Bro.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, we're about to were about to get something in
his next book when to come out out. I'm gonna
tell you that on the verbs.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Heyn a, man, I'm telling you, And I was listening
to it because because you got to think even when
you was listening to it. You was listening to Michelle
Obama coaching. She was coaching even first when he was talking,
she was leading me. You feel me, there's a lot
to unpack, man, with that, with that, having a relationship,
(08:24):
actually knowing that somebody was then actually don't that they
were gay, having a relationship with no spending intimate time
with them to be able to be corrected when they
said something ignorant, like how many conversations were you having
with your professor? You feel me? How I was never
really in a space to be corrected by my professors
(08:46):
in a.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Personal I never got that close to any of my
professors ever, not on that level.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
No, right, right, And we and we both have done
a lot of school, bro, you know what I'm saying.
We got undergraduate degrees, you know, a couple. I got
two or three. I think I might have three bachelor degrees.
I got like three bachelor degrees. I got like shit,
a master's half, my dot DYM all but dissertations. As
far as my doctoral program, Like, hey, bro, we did
(09:12):
a whole lot of school. Never got that close to
a professor, never. Yeah, And I just know and even
when we were you know, coming up because we came
up in that air, like, Bro, you didn't the only
way that you knew somebody was it's only one way
(09:32):
to know. And it's a lot of people that you
suspected that you possibly thought, but it's only one way
to know, yep. And everybody didn't know. You know what
I'm saying, And it was that it was done that
way on purpose. So I just don't really understand what
the purpose of that was. But to come back to
our conversation, you heard it there. Our children are unprotected, bro.
(09:59):
You understand what I'm saying. And there are people who
are out running around who think like that and who
are that's their messaging? You feel me? Little boys need
gay men, huh.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, they need They need one in their.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Life, huh, to get to teach them empathy and compassion
and all of these things that you learn from your mother.
Like your mother taught you empathy and compassion. Your grandmother
teaches you and models empathy and compassion and caring and
love and so on and so forth. You man, So
(10:35):
I don't know, bro, but I'll tell you, the vulnerability
of our children is probably my third biggest threat to
our family, bro, because if we don't get it right
for our kids. It's over for us, Bro, It's over
for us. And I think we on the ropes because
our kids are not going to be They're not going
(10:56):
to be in a position to carry on our the needs. Bro.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Noah, we already see it, you know, like we said,
with these kids that are starting to become adult age
trying to transition into adulthood and get independence and all
that were already seeing it. It's a struggle. It's a
major struggle.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, it's a cold game, bro, So we don't.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Do something soon to start turning in trajectory around you
right like we're gonna it's gonna Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
A cold game. I ain't gonna hold you. It's a
cold game. Bro. All right, man, thank you man for
coming through. Bro. We we we we little bit over
our man, So we're gonna stop there. Man. I really
truly appreciate you. Bro. Tell the people how they can follow.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You, bro, a man, they can just find all my
platforms at time to see you seen your time to
see USR dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yes, indeed, man, I appreciate you, bro. Our ways and shit,
you know we're gonna chop it up on the back end.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yes, sir, salute to the family. Man. Thank y'all so much. Man,
thank you all so much for attending episode three, Man
and and and tapping in. I really truly genuinely appreciate you.
This was brought to you by the Black Gentleman Grooming Company.
We do have a line of our natural handcraft the
groomer products specifically with you in mind, so be sure
to come check us out www dot or black gen
dot com. This is Junior the Truth signing off Man
(12:09):
giving you your daily reminder to view your life like
a pair of dice until your life looks like a
pair of ice. Man, I'm a how born player made
if you don't know anything else about me. At the
end of the day, I gotta keep pushing baby.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
We off of the best grooming buds for you, for
you best sung, natural and handcrafted to we want to
help beer swag, swag us, stop class and luxury luxury. Man,
you got product self made for you the top quality.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yet let's get a start with the.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Black uhle Black Gut Company and competent you swag up
bag and stop glass and luxury and luxury. Yeah, Black Gentlemen,
I'm Black gay Company.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I go out the Luxury and
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Luxury located at www dot The Black gent dot com
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