Eventually, once they finally began to get their social rights, the conspiracy between American legislators and Mafia drug kingpins enslaved Blacks once again, by targeting their neighborhoods as mass drug dens. Blacks were, once again, being made punks by the American bullies in charge of law, order and capital. This much emasculation has the inevitable result of causing a man to value, above everything else, the dignity believed to be retained when, at least, one has his balls intact. Counselors of gay teens know that no queer is more at risk that a Black queer. Coming home gay to a Black neighborhood or Black family is usually an automatic ticket to the streets and total abandonment.
Jocks have a different reason for valuing their so-called manhood.
They are society's gladiators. Their job is to enrich the coffers of schools, towns, cities and corporations by showing their physical prowess to the adoring throngs. Once that physical prowess is gone, or even suspect, their value is stripped from them. If they don't have anything else to fall back on, either intellect or privileged social class, then they are truly eunuchs. We Americans emphasize this in the way we conspire to both threaten and cajole these human trophies.