Black Male Toxicity -Sources, Causes and Remedies -Workshop Rodney Coates Malcolm X, in 1962, asked: Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? To such an extent, you bleach to get like the white man. Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to so much so that you don't want to be around each other? No... …you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what God made you. Multiple crises are colliding to distort, destroy, and deny the future of Black males. Today, o ver half, 53% of all firearm homicide victims are Black Males . That is 20 times higher than white male homicide. Among males, Black offenders accounted for 89% of all Black homicide s. A mong those ages 1-19, this accounts for 35.3% of