The Celebration of Kevin Samuels' Death Highlights Black America's Feminist Secularism

As Roe v. Wade is being deliberated in the courts, Samuels v. the Left rages on social media.

YouTube sensation Kevin Samuels was pronounced dead on May 6 at the age of 56.

For those uninitiated, Kevin Samuels was a professional image consultant turned YouTube influencer who discussed relationships, race, social dynamics, and, most important, personal responsibility. He organically amassed a massive following within "The Manosphere" space. It is a group of men on social media who push back on radical feminism and subscribe to traditional societal norms. In today's matriarchal culture, women are celebrated at the expense of millennial and Gen-Z men. Because of his brazen and outspoken approach, Samuels's popularity exploded: nearly one and a half million subscribers on YouTube, over one million followers on Instagram, two hundred seventy thousand on Facebook, and eighty-eight thousand on TikTok. In recent months, Samuels could be seen mingling with entertainment icons like Future and pro athletes like Cam Newton.

Some of Kevin Samuels' early content focused on the betterment of men. He preached fashion, grooming, weight loss, and a masculine frame of mind. Some of these men he called HENRYs (High Earner, Not Rich Yet). In a viral video a couple of years ago, he advised black men getting into corporate America to cut their dreads and braids: 

"'Growing my hair makes me feel more confident or feel black.' If this is what you feel, [then] you need therapy. So what about the black men who don't have [all] the hair on them? They're less black than you? We have too much of this ego, self-importance, entitlement, and pride [that] keeps you stuck at the bottom."

Over time, Kevin started catering his content toward women. When society critiques black men, crickets. But, when critique is levied against black women, suddenly, there's an uproar.

Samuels pushed back hard against modern-day, delusional feminist doctrine. Today's culture weaponizes the word misogyny. It went from "hatred of women" to "any pushback a woman receives that she doesn't like". Many do not want to pay the price for the praise they receive. Samuels held the women who called into his YouTube show to the same lofty standards they hold men to. Sometimes the rhetoric was harsh, but in today's media-saturated environment, powerful (and occasionally inflammatory) commentary cuts through and reaches people's ears. Sister Shahrazad Ali is a retired writer who authored two books preaching many of the same principles Samuels spoke of. She wrote The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman in 1989 and The Blackwoman's Guide to Understanding the Blackman in 1992. Ali is a very articulate but soft-spoken person. Her voice would not be powerful enough to make the impact Samuels did. 

I do not know what Kevin Samuels' religious beliefs were, but marriage was a significant talking point. In many of his interactions, he stressed to women that the end goal is marriage to a high-value man. Not a paycheck, or a Birkin bag, or a Mercedes Benz. Having a man in the top five percent of earners put a ring on their finger requires FFF (Fit, Feminine, and Friendly). Irresponsible sexual decisions that lead to children born out of wedlock can have dire consequences later in life, most notably not being able to attract a quality man. Masculinity and the aggressive "I don't need a man" attitude will only repel high-earning, self-respecting men. These are all biblically-sound principles. Women know Kevin Samuels was correct on many of these issues, which is why so many called his show. He did not seek out women just to criticize them; they came to him.

If more men were like Kevin Samuels, unabashedly firm with their convictions and not afraid to push back against matriarchal thinking, the pro-choice versus pro-life debate would not be a volcano approaching eruption.

A clip of a 1996 George Carlin HBO comedy special has resurfaced in lieu of the recent Supreme Court document leaks surrounding Roe v. Wade. In it, he tears apart pro-life conservatives.

"Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people that you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place? They will do anything for the unborn, but once you're born [sticks up his middle finger], you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't wanna know about you. Nothing! No neo-natal care, no daycare… no welfare, if you're pre-born, you're fine, if you're preschool, you're fucked."

He finishes his rant by saying, "They're anti-women," to thunderous applause.

Carlin, an atheist, was born in New York and spent most of his stand-up comedy and acting career in California. He is a product of liberal ideology.

What Carlin got wrong in 1996 and so many get wrong about the abortion debate today is that it takes both a man and a woman to create a child. Therefore, the man should have as much say in aborting a child as the woman. If the man is not present or does not want to be, the woman shoulders some blame. It takes two to do it.

Pro-life advocates are asking for a bit of sexual discretion and responsibility from pro-choicers. Most pregnancies stem from deliberate or irresponsible sexual practices, not rape and condom breaks. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the think tank for Planned Parenthood, less than one percent of pregnancies result from rape or incest. In a study co-authored by University of Kentucky professor Richard Crosby, up to forty percent of people can experience condom breaks. Still, many of them are user errors: not correctly storing them before use, not checking for damage before use, not putting them on correctly, or sliding them off during intercourse. Proper condom wearing during intercourse will prevent over ninety-nine percent of unwanted pregnancies. These anomalous situations should not constitute the federalization of child-killing practices.

The vitriol surrounding this debate parallels the vile sentiments about Kevin Samuels on Twitter after his passing. Scrolling through the responses under #KevinSamuels, I noticed about a 40/60 split between people congratulating him and those who danced on his grave. Many of the distasteful tweets came from black women or feminized black men.

A popular sentiment was how much he degraded black women.

Full disclosure, DMX is one of my favorite rappers of all time. However, he was a very troubled man who fell victim to a rough upbringing and a Hollywood lifestyle. He perpetuated songs glorifying gun violence, hardcore drug use, and the degradation of black women. On his hit single "What These Bitches Want," he raps:

"Dawg, I meet bitches, discreet bitches

Street bitches slash Cocoa Puff-sweet bitches

Make you wanna eat bitches, but not me

Y'all niggas eat off the plate all you want, but not D

I fucks with these hoes from a distance"

When he passed in April 2021, there were parades around the country in his honor. He was called a pioneer, an icon. People cried and celebrated his life and achievements. His music streams on Spotify and Apple Music spiked. 2Pac and Biggie made music sharing many of the same debaucherous themes where they referenced women derogatively. Yet, they are celebrated (by black men and women alike) on a daily basis. Career-criminal George Floyd had memorials (and riots) in his honor despite the fact he once pointed a loaded gun at a pregnant woman's belly.

To my knowledge, Kevin Samuels never publicly called a woman a bitch or hoe, told her to bust it wide open, or threatened to kill her unborn child. 

Seems as if Kevin was a rapper, he might not have received the backlash he did.

The trashing of Kevin Samuels in death is another example of the Left's and, particularly, the black Left's lack of tolerance for diversity of opinion. Samuels promoted marriage and a strong family structure. Since his passing, couples have defended Samuels' teachings. Many women got their lives together and worked out their problems with their husbands thanks to his daily prescription of red pills he offered. Eerily enough, he died having been divorced and in the arms of a woman he barely knew.

Samuels was nowhere near perfect. He was a consistent consumer of Red Bull. That doesn't mix well with [allegded] Viagra in a fifty-six-year-old body which recovered from cancer years before. He promoted the union of marriage and died having sex outside of it. Nevertheless, his sinful shortcomings should not dilute his message. Yes, he is a hypocrite of sorts, but so are the politicians who actively push for socialism while enjoying all the fruits of capitalism.

Many blacks claim to be pro-black, wearing shirts with a vector of Africa on them while raising their fist in the air. A further examination of their actions will illustrate they are anything but pro-black. They are pro-affirmation. In other words, they only support blacks who think and act like them. Kevin Samuels proved many black people desire feel-goods over truth. Although he snapped some people out of their hypnosis, more needs to be done.

Many will continue to cast Kevin Samuels in a negative light, but the "King of the Manosphere" preached important principles for black men and women to learn from.

Samuels v. the Left will be a case study for years to come.