Senator Obama Takes Black Fathers To Task

Senator Obama takes a leap of faith as he criticizes black fathers for their lack of support for their children, and urges them to step up their game.

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[rEdStArRiSiNg06]

I respect Obama for having the balls to tell the truth like it is... when will black folks finally learn how to be civilize and take responsibility for their own actions?

[mike50333]

I agree fully with your statement, but try not to be too generalizing. There are some black fathers out there who do have an authentic love and concern for their children - who would gladly give everything they had, including their lives, to do what's right and what's best for their kids. They may not be large in number, but they're out there.

[eoriol1955]

How come this apologist for the white oppressive system is too stupid to understand that the same Black men he is criticizing are locked up in the same jails built just for them.Obama sucks and does not deserve any Black man's vote.I wish Jessee would have cut his balls off.

[mike50333]

A vast majority of said black fathers are being jailed for drug use. It's because of this law that was somehow supposed to protect the Black Community from these gang-banging dope smoking people, and yet it's caused over 50 percent of our black male population to be locked in the slammer. In short, the black uses get the boot while the white dealers get off scott free.

[baronerin]

Are you aware that 13 million black babies have been aborted since 1973? That's called genocide. Who has allowed this to happen? People like Obama. Out of one side of his mouth he tells black fathers responsibility doesn't end at conception, out of the other he says he's not sure when life begins so he can rationalize his pro-abortion position. That's called pandering. Wake up.

[mike50333]

The senator may be pro-choice, but he also supports legislation and programs that will educate people, particularly teens, in ways that help to women from having to be put in such a predicament, such as sex ed programs that are centered on a little something called "abstinence". It's where you decide to NOT have sex in teh first place. Plus, that pro-choice stance can be a literal lifesaver for rape victims, incest victims, and for those who will die if they give birth.

Think about that.

[shieldsff]

really,how about the "Root"actually being that a centuries-long history of racism & discrimination has undermined the role&influence of millions of Black men to obtain a quality education & competitive jobs I understand where Pres.Obama is coming from though-he is clearly upset about his OWN father abandoning him.It is hard to understand though how his abandonment somehow translates into the problem being mainly a black{men} community one (which is patently untrue).Where are the JOBS4 black men

[revemupman]

My father was in the home but I barely saw his face.

He was either working or working.

Sometimes work gets in the way of raising your children. Is my father a deadbeat? NO, but he wasn't there for me in anything I done or accomplished. So my question is, you want a man who is determined and focused but in order to be focused on a career the family has to be put on a back burner.

You either want us to take lead or sit back LET US KNOW WOMEN!

[MuayThaiFighter2009]

Read the Book "Myth of the Absent Black Father". The authors did a COMPREHENSIVE study on black families and found that non-residential black fathers were MORE likely to sustain consistent contact with their children than non-residential men of any other group. It is just that Socioeconomic factors such as joblessness, poor education, poverty, and high rates of black male incarceration as well as black males are the LEAST likely to marry the mothers of their children have created a false picture

[msminnie89]

That law was NEVER meant to "protect" ANY Black people.

[honeegrrl]

Me and one of my college friends had a debate about who needs fathers more? Girls or boys? What do you all think. I think it's equal. I think boys and girls need fathers.