Hill Harper Talks Activism With Clutch Magazine
Clutch Magazine has a very nice interview with Hill Harper. He mostly talks about his activism. Good stuff. Here’s a snippet. You can read the interview in total at Clutch.
Clutch: Historically and even in contemporary times people have often created this definition of what a man should be. I just turned 27 and was raised by a single mother, so I believe there are core values but every man has their own definition of what a man is. What is your definition of what a man is and on top of that is there any difference in what your definition of a Black man is?
Hill Harper: No, ultimately all the elements of manhood are not race specific. However, there are things that we all experience given certain circumstance, whether that’s race, economics, gender, educational background or educational opportunity, access to knowledge or access to money. All these factors will obviously influence experiences we have over the course of our lives. I’m not belittling the differences in terms of race, but manhood is manhood. It’s interesting that you ask that question about what is my definition, the definition to me is more of how do you define faith? You don’t articulate the definition in words it’s something that’s felt. Those of us who are men who are living right, we know we’re living in the right manhood based way. Those of us who are living wrong, we know that we are living childishly, making boyish decisions. Everyone knows it and they can sense it, so it’s not about words or me giving a Webster’s Dictionary of what manhood is, it’s really about looking internally. The first quote in my book is from Dr. King., where he said, “One’s sense of manhood must come from within.”
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