Welcome to The Onyx Report's Daily Black Masculinist News, where we, Black Male Justice Advocates, uplift Black men and boys through critical analysis in today's video,
"Black Male Job Losses Have Been Ignored for Years"
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The Onyx Report is a program that critically analyzes the experiences, histories, and perceptions of Black males in American society across dimensions such as age, class, religion, sexuality, and occupation.
I am your host, Dr. T. Hasan Johnson, Professor of Africana Studies at Fresno State, Black Male Studies scholar, and Black Male Justice Advocate.
In the program, we examine current events and major issues through an empirically driven Black masculinist theoretical lens, incorporating concepts such as the Black male dual economy, anti-Black misandry, phallicism, the subordinate male-target hypothesis, the subculture of violence theory, and the Black Gynocracy.
The main focus of this video is the systemic neglect and underreporting of Black male unemployment and job losses in the U.S., contrasted with heavy media and community attention given to Black women's job losses.
Key Points Discussed:
Economic Data:
The hosts reference recent unemployment charts (2025βearly 2026) showing Black men's unemployment rates consistently higher than Black women's in many months.
They highlight large-scale Black male job losses (around 567,000 between late 2025 and early 2026) that received little coverage, while Black women's losses (hundreds of thousands) were widely discussed as a crisis.
Historical Pattern:
Black men have faced higher unemployment rates for decades (often for centuries in the U.S.), but this is frequently normalized or ignored, while similar issues for Black women are framed as exceptional or urgent.
Media & Narrative Critique:
The discussion argues that media and some community voices use "flat blackness" (lumping all Black data together) to obscure Black male-specific struggles. They tie this to broader concepts like anti-Black misandry, and selective outrage.
Broader Context:
Economic shifts affecting Black men, including moves from warehouse/service jobs toward trades, infrastructure, and STEM fields amid automation, AI, and potential stagflation risks.
Black men are encouraged to focus on practical skill development (trades/STEM over traditional college paths in some cases), self-reliance, and redefining boundaries in personal and community roles, prioritize self-preservation, upskilling, and mutual value in relationships rather than one-sided "rescuer" roles.
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