Fatherly Solidarity

Tha duties of a father is to guide, teach, mentor, provide correct discipline, offer support, engage  their daughters with high self esteem  and social wisdom. Children need to see their fathers visiting their schools. As an Father I have hear girls in my daughter class state they wish their fathers’ would visit them, to eat lunch and speak to teachers to.

I see tha pride and love my daughters have as I walk her to class, arrive to eat lunch with her and provide hugs and kisses before she leave. Imagine how better our girls and boys can be if fathers are more active and tha impact to they lyfe.

Tha media of this world seems to be on a mission to present Women of as easy, slezzy and only able to be successful if they sleep and sleaze their way to success and fame.

Tha current television programs, movies and sitcoms seem intent on showing Women and Girls that their status or existence is only elevated by tha value of material items and that being happy is determined by following tha carnal laws and teachings that would demean woman, particularly Women and Girls of Color.

What has happened when girls are dressed up like they are two or three times their age and it is cute to cuss and perpetrate being older?

There is a fine line between cute and pretty and sleazy and sexually suggestive. Tha use of Social Media is showing more girls that they are violent, sexually promiscuous and verbally violent with profanity.

The hurtful observation is tha media makes it look glamorous and acceptable, but tha truth is that it makes girls look cheap and unmarketable as scholars, business leaders, intellectuals and responsible. Tha absence of fathers as models and being pro-active teachers is seen in schools,churches and etc.

There was a time when fathers taught their girls to be lady like, to be intellectually quiet, socially polite, cordial and learning social graces that allow girls to create tha perceptions of social acceptance. Girls must be taught tha skills, abilities, wisdom, strength to compete when it comes to being successful in a competitive world.

This school year, schools across this nation need a million 

fathers to support their children. Fathers, grand-fathers, uncles, step-fathers and other men in communities, and those of tha clergy are allowing schools to be closed in our nation’s cities. Demographics are showing that more schools are closing in Communities of Color also. This should be un-acceptable for fathers because closing schools decreases the value of neighborhoods, homes and even religious institutions.

So Men are we so mentally and emotionally castrated that we cannot volunteer at our children’s schools, chaperon field trips, eat lunch at least five times a month, attend parent/teacher meetings and school board meetings?

I’m sure that I’m preaching to tha choir, but this needs to be told for children’s sake.

Women are rising in tha poverty statistics of this lyfe and in order to compete need to obtain a quality education has stated that. “the best antipoverty program is a quality educationFathers support your children’s education.

Fathers are quick to state..“that is my son or daughter” when awards are given out, scholarships are awarded, athletic accomplishments are recognized, but what about supporting tha most important part of tha educational process   LEARNING!!!!

In classroom discipline issues are on tha rise, tha school to prison pipe line is flooding like tha pipes of crude oil flowing from tha Middle East to tha United States. In each case billions of dollars are being made. Children of Color are worth more in the prison systems than they are in the educational systems. Slavery is still strong and growing in tha 21^st century. Even as tha March on Washington has shown there are still injustices, People of Color especially fathers need to be proactive and involved.

 Tha Million Father initiatives, Tha Save Our Sons Inc., National Men Make A Difference Day for Academic Success (Dr. Michael A. Robinson) and others are important, they set a tone for improvement, but these have to be sustained and supported by tha community as a whole. There are hundreds of thousands of Fathers doing tha “Right Thing,” but there needs to be “Millions of Fathers doing more.

Fathers need to be reading to children, sharing wisdom's of lyfe, mentoring and taking children to libraries, visiting museums, and attending cultural events. Daughters, step-daughters, grand-daughters and nieces need tha wisdom of tha men in their lives. If men don’t take tha time to teach their daughters tha Streetz will.

In tha spirit of Every Father in America  Take your Child to School on tha First Day of School and revisit to eat lunch and talk to teachers.......