Saturday, February 28, 2009

A Father Being a Father Even in Death

There are so many stories, or should I say tragedies, of black men not answering to their self-induced (making a baby) call to be a FATHER. The evidence is in every facet of the black American condition. All one has to do is go to a PTA meeting, stumble across a website dedicated to providing black male sociological statistics, or just by asking a random black female the dreaded question: ‘Where is your child’s father?’

It is rare, extremely rare, that a human can be responsible while six feet under. But, in this case of my first installment of Touching, Truly Touching a black man has been invisibly resurrected.

This solider is the father many of us have gone without:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/WoodruffReports/story?id=6524894&page=1

Shared by Brian E. Payne. Touched by The Soldier.

6 comments:

  1. Reader Response:

    Remarkable. Just wonderful. Thanks for sharing this one.

    -TK

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  2. Reader Response:

    I like this side of Muata. It is almost like we will never understand who you really are.

    -PJ

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  3. Muata responds to PJ:

    I am not interested in being figured out. Stay tuned for more!

    -Muata

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  4. Reader Response:

    This is the Brian I grew to love. Please keep sharing.

    -BET

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  5. Nice pic.

    We have many responsible black men. They are not highlighted by our media outlets enough.

    -JA

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  6. Muata responds to JA:

    It is up to us to uplift our 'stars'. We can't wait on CBS and ABC to do it. Hopefully, my efforts with this series will help with the spreading of our Good News.

    -Muata

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