An Afro-Latino mother’s experience with #TuLucha Es MiLucha
Leadership is the bridge that helps connect the gap between a problem and a solution. In this manuscript, the author presents The Ellison Model, “a conceptual framework that focuses on relationships with a holistic alternative method of delivering programs and services from a context of inclusive community building.” The Ellison Model has five foci: inclusion, multicultural appreciation, mentorship, conflict resolution, and relationship building. These foci build leaders and teams that will solve problems in the least destructive way possible. The Ellison Model’s insistence on inclusion and embrace of multiculturalism makes it the perfect model for leadership in the 21st century.
What do men want regarding love, marriage, and family? While the answer to this question is often skewed to something more dubious, they want the same things as women. Men want to feel loved, cherished, and supported, to name a few. However, the social construct of gender roles is overwhelmingly incongruent and saturated with relationship-ending conflict brought on by mounting expectations to meet unattainable standards. Many men struggle in relationships as they are challenged to meet the standards of a world that have already prescribed what manhood and masculinity ought to be.
In this open letter to Black men and women, we take the focus off the proverbial “white man” and talk about what we can control. I have a simple belief: when you control what you can, you prepare what you cannot control to eventually be in your control. Doing so begins with a courageous conversation about the intra- personal and interpersonal commitment Black men and women need to undergo to protect and improve the family nucleus and overcome the fragility of being accountable.
Unaccountability is a plague against the human will. Black people cannot continue to be unaccountable for their contribution to the dissolution of our Black communities. Otherwise, you point blame elsewhere and remain profoundly stagnant and spiritually and economically impoverished as a people. We must do better where we can.
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An Afro-Latino mother’s experience with #TuLucha Es MiLucha
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An Afro-Latino mother’s experience with #TuLucha Es MiLucha
