Dance With Your Father

Dance With Your Father

Barack Obama decided that at a Black Church, in Chicago, on Father's Day, he would call Black fathers to task. I don't have any issue with the message, the timing maybe, but definitely the messenger. He has avoided all things Black for the duration of the campaign, Hope and Change for America has been the charge right? Now, this nigga wants to call out absentee niggas? That's my job! Talk about those rich white folks Barack, oh yeah, you need their votes, so speeches like yesterday show that you're different.

Father's Day came and went and there were a lot of dudes faking the funk like they're good fathers. We know, there's a whole lot of fronting going on! But let's be real, fathers, dad, daddies, whatever you call them get the raw end of the deal. Ok, there's Father's Day, but other than that, where's the love? Even then, wives and children are buying cheap ties, giving Home Depot gift cards, seems forced. On the other hand mom gets all the love! Mother's Day, Boyz II Men songs, new shoes, good gifts. Not saying that it isn't due, but let's even the seesaw a little bit.

We all know the issues of Black fathers, we all know the crisis of the Black Man. We can trace the origins back to slavery, through reconstruction and Jim Crow, to Heroin and Reganomics, crack (which also engaged the Black mother) to BET & hip-hop, but that's our cross to carry! Not for Barack in the middle of a Presidential election to announce to the world! Especially a day or two after saying, "...if they bring a knife, we're gonna bring a gun!" in reference to the election.

What he should've been speaking out against, especially in Chicago, is how 12 people found it in their hearts to say R. Kelly was not guilty! I really don't want to speak much about this anymore I'm so disgusted! I will say that when the trouble first started we got a great album (Chocolate Factory), then two pieces of trash! Now, that he's beat the case, can you imagine the horrendous nonsense he's gonna make? Check out Hairbraider! Isn't this nigga 41, get a haircut, you're a grown-ass man!