Sunday, April 1, 2007

All black guys aren't sorry ass baby daddies!

Tonight I was watching an episode of Family Guy, the cartoon show, and in it two of the characters make reference to African American guys not taking care of their family responsibilities.

In America, I'm sure many people believe that this is the norm for all black families but you see it isn't in the Caribbean, where black people are the majority, men even if they aren't with the mothers of their children more often or not take care of their kids even if that means toiling in the cane fields or working as a laborer in the brutal, hot sun for hours and hours just to bring home a cheque at the end of the week to give to the mother of their children.

That you see, is the NORM for many, if not most black men not the EXCEPTION! It isn't even the norm here in the US, the majority of black men do take care of their families and their children but because a significant, I agree the percentage is way too large, number of African American males do not once again the minority speaks for the majority.

This scenario reminds me of an argument I had with a friend of mine who was convinced that the majority of African Americans were on welfare and lived in poverty when I showed him the statistics that most black people in the US were actually in the middle class and that in fact the majority of people receiving welfare were white, single mothers he was stunned.

Now, I'm not going to argue about the number of black men in jail, the numbers are definitely disproportionate to their number in the actual population butI would need an entire book to explain this situation maybe I'll talk about the reasons in another blog but needless to say we need to reduce the number of dead beat black dads out there because fathers are just as important as mothers in the black community.

So if you know of any dead beat dads report them, black or white and if you want to talk about them here's a cool site to either post their pics of just to check out http://www.sorryassbabydaddies.com

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