To Tame a Black Male: The Fastest Way to Make a Black Man Behave

His mother has given up trying to change him. He has school-children, but that has been zero incentive for him to behave like Daddy. He tried religion; it didn't work. He tried church, but that's just too much commitment; he dropped out. He has attempted suicide more than a couple of times.

He's been changing jobs like my wife changes nail polish. His mama chips in to pay his rent.

He remains an angry man. It's no secret in the neighborhood that when he gets mad he beats his woman up. She won't call 911, and she won't flee to the abused woman shelter. She refuses to dump him, wishing, hoping, praying he will change someday so they can tie the knot.

I see him with his lady pushing a shopping cart in front him while he's on the phone. She asks him to help with the heavy-laden cart, but he replies, "Can't you see I'm talking to someone?"

He's a black male. She's a black female.

Few years go by... I see the guy again. This time he's ending a phone call. He walks to the car where a woman queenly sits, finessing her makeup, waiting for her man. He opens the door, the woman steps out. He shuts the door behind her, locks the car, grabs a shopping cart and pushes it in front of her, as she strolls behind him, free and empty-handed.

I say hello to him, and he tells me, "Whatever you're selling I don't want." All I want to do is give him my business card so we can meet at church or at Starbucks sometime.

He's a black male. She's a white female.

What has happened to the brother? Simple. Like many other formerly out-of-control black males across America, this guy has been converted and tamed by a white girl. It's a good thing the brother is a changed man now. I just wish that he could have seen the light without first having to see white. I guess we should welcome a changed life however it comes.

But still I must ask... Why is it that black guys have greater respect for white women than they do for black women? Why do they usually behave better with white lovers than with black brides?

Perhaps there is something in this for law enforcement. Perhaps the fastest way to tame that black guy, keep him off drugs and out of jail is to do this one thing: Give him a white mama! Maybe that's really what it takes.

These days it's hard not to entertain the thought every time I see a wayward black man who hasn't been thrown in jail yet. Oh Lord, send him a white girl before it's too late. Maybe it's the black woman who has no clue about how to value and respect the black man, and therefore does not deserve a good black man. Maybe it's her chronic disrespect that drives the black man into the hand of a white woman who knows how to lull him back to dignity....

Exception to this mystery: Tiger Woods.