7 Ways to be a Black Father
The Root writers on Usher's fatherhood lessons, coming to grips with a daughter's addiction, and re-writing what it means to be a daddy.
HELENA ANDREWS
"What My Father Could Learn From Usher" For millions of Americans, the TV version of fatherhood is all we have. **********
JAM DONALDSON
A daughter of the Black Arts Movement's journey into Hot Ghetto Mess.
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LISE FUNDERBURG
"The Subtle Sweetness of 'Pig Candy'"
An author's trip to Georgia, away from the familiarities of the North and closer to her father.
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KEITH REED
"Finding Fathers"
Over a casual lunch with an oldhead, a father learns what he's been missing.
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FELICIA PRIDE
How I beat my addiction to making my dad pay for his.
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SAMSON KAMBALU
"How My Father Taught Me to Talk Jive"
Studying Nietzsche from the toilet and other cold, hard truths.
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ABDUL ALI
"Re-Writing Fatherhood"
Young, broke, and unmarried; it was my daughter who helped me find my voice
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View All Comments »DownLoBro at 06/24/2008 4:02:16 PM
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That is actually great advice to all those that have been handed jobs. WORK makes us move forward not crying about the past. I am embattased by my race when I read stupid things like this.
DownLoBro at 06/24/2008 3:57:45 PM
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Let's stop blaming everypne else and take responsibility for our own mistakes. If you are so unhappy here go back to mother Africa. As for me, I choose to stay, play and enjoy the american life. I educated MYSELF and even made friends with the "White Devils" who have turned out to be much more reliable than my so called "brotha's"
DownLoBro at 06/24/2008 3:51:16 PM
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Here in Philadelphia, some 90% of children born to Black girls will never know their father. Why? Because the mothers themselves do not know. Like ALL girls (Black or White) who have babies they want someone to love them unconditionally so they get pregnant by sleeping with multiple men (just look at Maury Povich).
These men would never step forward anyway, as the courts will make them pay for 18 years of rearing with little or no rights, but in this case concern.