One of the favorite ‘songs’ that racists love to ‘sing’ is that “Black people have absentee fathers” as if we don’t know that’s not true or perhaps they don’t think we know our own culture that we live every day to know better. They obviously haven’t gotten the memo!  Yet, they come at us as if they are the experts in our culture. It’s amazing their audacity to tell another person about their ethnic group as if they’ve  studied it and lived it, yet if they did, they would know the myth is not true.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) did a study and confirmed that this myth was a lie. In fact they learned that Black fathers are the most involved ethnic group of them all, even more than white fathers. Black fathers make time for their children.

I recently received a video from the Black Fathers Matter Project and the spoken word at the end of this video speaks for us all. Please watch the video to the end.